Single Page site review
I chose to review the site Jdillachangedmylife.com. The site is very basic in it’s elements, but it is displayed quite beautifully. The homepage is a complex animation showing the musical artist J Dilla the design and color schemes are unified but also diverse and the overall design feels really unique. By incorporating this animation the stage is set for the site to succeed.
To navigating down the site you must scroll down through the page. As you scroll the page is designed to stop at a certain point to display the entire page. Each page has a different song that plays, Also each page has a unified color background that compliments the album art of the song. As well as the details about the song such as title, and a link to play the song.
The use of texture here is limited, the album arts have drop shadows that cause them to pop off the screen but otherwise the page feels very flat in it’s design but perhaps this was intentional. The animation on the page however does have a lot of texture. Some of the video clips are lo-fi and grainy and it compliments the urban aesthetic of the page. J Dilla himself was very closely connected to the city of Detroit and this animation displays the streets of Detroit efficiently. Textures and shapes are used to portray brick and stone just like on the street.
Overall the page is basic but also interesting, the strongest segment is the animation and also it’s ability to use color in a unified and connected way. The contrast here is really nice. All in All I would say the page works well as an overall design and my only “complaint” of sorts would be that the information and songs included are rather limited.