Author: kmcst293

http://www.lemonadela.com/

Layout& Navigation : The layout of the restaurant I choose is very similar to my fusion restaurant. Though you can scroll down rather then how ours you can scroll horizontal. With this feature our viewers will experience less confusion with where to navigate. Though, you could argue that the navigation bar is at the top, our website will be less distracting to the viewer and more organized with are double menu idea. With our double menu I mean, two navigation bars will appear. Example is when you click menu at the top of the navigation bar, the next menu will appear right below with the entrees, deserts, and so on.

Color : The color use of the Lemondela site is very citrous orientated. Though this works with the name of the restaurant it can confuse the taste of all of the other food. When we chose our color scheme, we decided to make it simplified. When the color scheme is simplified it put emphasis on the real important information. This would mean the colors of our food in our pictures, and will create a sense of importance. Having a simplified color scheme can give you a sense of classiness.

Texture : The texture on the Lemonadela website is shown in its pictures. The close ups of the food gives you the “taste” of its texture. In our website we use the same approach, but we also included filters on our pictures. This will also explain a sense of texture that you get besides a picture of food.

 

The two site restaurants I would like to talk about are Bravo Franco and No. 9 Park. The strong points of each site are very contrasting between each other. I visually enjoy No. 9 Parks website design and its over all feel of its design in an artistic way, but navigation and structure wise I feel like Bravo Franco has a better site. With Bravo Franco it is much more easier to navigate what you want fast and easy. The bigger sizes they use is easier for us to locate what we are looking for without much effort. Too much of the same size and like colors loses us with what information is important like I feel when I am on No. 9 Park restaurants site. No. 9  Park’s site does not have enough contrast between all of its elements to navigate as easy in Bravo Franco. This causes us to overlook the navigation we need to explore.

Kat Chemsak

ARTM2210

Feb. 25, 2015

For Better Coffee

            Looking through the different one page websites, there was only one that really stood out visually and interested me its amazing design. The reason why I picked this page is because its use of design elements and the way they creatively interpreted their content. When you first open the page, there is a beautiful background of leafs. The leaves in the background are green and show contrast in the different shade and tint of green. The shapes of the leaves visually point to the main object that will follow through the top to the bottom of the page. The coffee bean in the middle is brown and contrast well from the leaves in color since it is brown but is similar in shape. Also to coordinate with the shapes of the leaves and coffee bean, there are circles in the background.To use the space well and create a pattern without over doing the content of the background there circles are visually accepted with a round shape and contrast the green with red and tone down the contrast with white. The font chose is a sans serif that has a good use of kerning. The spaces between each letter and words help create a separation from the background, including the padding from the background. As the coffee bean continues to transfer down the page you can see how it changes and transforms. In a creative and organized way it turns the bean into grounded coffee beans, to in a filter, and than becomes coffee. While this is visually represented with graphics and animations, there is also font to make sure the viewer can read what is going on, and explains their concept further. This page is not cluttered and is very well conducted in a whole.