Author: sydcersos

After searching the web for a website that looked similar to my fusion restaurant website, I stumbled upon www.eggslut.com. The restaurant basically incorporates eggs with any type of meal. The layout was basically one column, it always featured a photo before any content appeared and in between each section. The color theme is yellow and white, which makes sense because egg-white, yolk-yellow. Navigation was very easy and had everything at the top menu bar. I think they made it easy for users to scroll through the content. Like I said previously, everything was basically one column and had more content as you kept scrolling.

Mine and eggsluts websites were fairly similar. The navigation bar & logo were pretty much in the same place except I feel like I had more items in the nav bar and two drop downs. Their pictures were always at the top of the site and in between each section, but mine took up the entire page.

My website will probably stand out more because you don’t have to scroll to get the content you’re looking for. I think the photos of the food in the background give my site less white space and by looking at the food, it would persuade a person to come to the restaurant- or in my case a food truck. I also think that since they do not have their gallery, faqs, quality & taste, customer service, gallery or online orders in the nav bar its annoying for people to have to scroll.

Review 3:

1. Pasta Too

-pastatoorestaurant.com

-Balance- everything balances nicely, I think the colors work well together

-Unity- the page fits together, I think its because everything is basically a rectangle, so it fits together nicely.

-Emphasis- on the changing photos under the navigation bar

-Layout- flows nicely as you’re scrolling down

2. How it uses Krug’s five important “things” to make sure users see and understand

1. It creates a clear visual hierarchy, the first thing you see when you look at the site is a photo of the restaurant, which changes to another photo saying its “traditional family recipes” then another “fresh ingredients for an authentic flavor”. Obviously, traditional recipes and authentic tastes are important so they’re putting them first.

2. The conventions of the we page are clear and easy to see/use. The logo is in the top left and the navigation bar is at the top with it.

3. The site has clearly defined areas

4. It also makes it obvious whats clickable (navigation bar, and “our sauce” and “careers” at the bottom.

5. There isn’t much noise, I feel like its easy to navigate through and doesn’t have any distractions.

2. DiAnoia’s Eatery

-dianoiaseatery.com

-Balance- I think the first page is balanced well

-Unity- the colors of white and blue make it feel unified

-Emphasis- I think there’s a lot of emphasis on looking at the menu

-Layout- the layout is white space on the left and a picture. Then if you click on the 3 horizontal lines to the right, the white space goes away making the page an entire picture with a floating navigation bar.

2. How it uses Krug’s five important “things” to make sure users see and understand

1. The first thing I noticed when I looked at the page was “CIAO!”, a picture of meatballs and then an option to view their menu.

2. The conventions of this page weren’t as clear to me as Pasta Too’s site Although the logo stuck out on the left side, the navigation bar was hard to find since you had to click on the 3 horizontal lines next to “check out our menu”

3. This site does not have clearly defined areas until you click on the navigation bar

4. There isn’t much to click so it does make it obvious on what’s clickable

5. There wasn’t much noise.

Review 2: One Page Love

Prague Wanderings

https://www.icscreative.com/prague/

This site was a long scrolling page showing illustrations of what Ariana Montanez did while she was working in Prague. As you scroll down the page, she has a different color background for little blurbs explaining who she is, what her favorite thing to do in Prague was, and a link to read more about her trip. She used a color scheme of what looks like pastel colors for the blurbs and the illustrations. The color scheme helped make this page feel like it all ties together. Navigation is very easy; the user just has to scroll down. The composition of this site made it easy to scan, read and understand, everything was centered, and I basically only read/looked at one thing at a time. I also think that the contrast of the site was a good choice, it had white space and didn’t clash with the color palette she used.  Again, the color scheme that was used really tied everything together.

A good website is user friendly and visually pleasing. This site created by Ariana Montanez fits just that because of the easy navigation, composition, illustrations and the color scheme. Since the site describes Ariana’s trip to Prague, I find it interesting how she decided to illustrate her experiences using only a few colors and making it work. The content drew me in and was the focal point of the site. Also, the site isn’t confusing at all since the only thing you have to do is scroll down. In conclusion, I really think this site was well done due to the easiness, the composition and the illustrations.

My first review of a website is on shoedazzle.com. The first thing I noticed about shodazzle.com is that you cannot just look through their inventory, you either have to log in or become a new member. The buttons for logging on are in two places, at the top of the page and under a promotional offer of 50% off. To become a new member I noticed it that it doesn’t just flat out say “sign up”, instead it says “get started”, which could confuse many. Next, it takes you to a quiz and asks questions like “which shoe is most you?”, etc.. I didn’t notice until half way through the quiz that there is a “skip quiz” button all the way at the top. During the last part of the quiz, the site asks your age range, foot size, clothing size, and zip code. It doesn’t actually ask you to sign up until after you’ve answered all the questions. After signing up, the site is pretty easy to navigate and even gives you shoe styles based on the questions you answered. In my opinion, I think the site is easy to navigate, it doesn’t make me think too much and it’s effortless. It only made me think when the questions came up and asked which styles I liked better. I think the quiz worked with the site because it does recommend styles to you. The improvements I would make would be to make the “skip quiz” button more noticeable because sometimes people don’t want to answer all these questions at first. It could turn viewers away from the site. I would also maybe add a “sign up” button next to the log in button at the top of the page because some people can get confused by the “get started” button. The design principles and elements work as well. It really emphasizes having 50% off and obviously they’re trying to promote that.  In conclusion, everything is pretty much organized and easy to navigate.