Author: zmrst358

Review 3

The two restaurant sites that I am comparing for their use of balance, unity, emphasis, and layout are Burgatory and No. 9 Park. To start with Burgatory’s website they have a simple design of using red and black colors to show off their site. The use of balance in this site is good on making it easy to read. Everything is centered on the website whenever you stroll up and down. The pictures on the site pop out because they have borders on them. There is also a place on the homepage that is sectioned off that you can scroll though the pictures. The text is bold and easy to read for the viewers eyes. On the No. 9 Park’s website, it has more content. There are different colors that contrast the images that you can scroll down through. The picture is fixed so just the text in the box moves. Everything is contained in separate boxes so you could easily identify the content. I would say that the No. 9 Park restaurant caught my eye more because of the color scheme and the layout of the website. It has nice pictures of the area and inside of the restaurant. They have the text inside of the pictures describing the culture and their values at the place. It also seems like the color contrast stands out more on this website as well.    

Zack Rush

Web Design

            The single page website that I chose is pasteapp.io. This website is about a new application for Mac, iPhone, and iPad that saves anything that you copy. Say you copy something from a website, and then you must use it again at a different time, it is already saved on the app so you have access to it. Let’s look at the design of the website to see if it has visual appeal and to see if it is easy to navigate. The color of the website has a simple layout of a white background. I like that the text clearly contrasts the color of the background. The important headings are bold, and the subtext is just black. There are hints of color with the use of images and gradients that the website uses. The site does a good job of not blinding you with color and makes it flow very well. Regarding the use of texture on the site; there isn’t much to see. The part that has a visual texture is where the section “Designed for Productivity” appears. That section has a gradient that goes underneath the text. It gives a little bit of texture for the site, but nothing significant. Regarding the flow, the website navigates from top to bottom. It is divided into sections that are really big. Whenever you scroll down, there are sections of text that explain the product. I feel like it can get a little confusing whenever you look through the site because there is not a lot of organization. You can understand the content, but I feel like I was scrolling up and down through the website trying to find what I wanted to learn about. It was a lot of back and forth, with scrolling up and down and everything seemed to start blending together. I could tell that information was sectioned off, but it took a moment. I wasn’t exactly sure at first glance. I feel like there could have been a different color than black for the topics and then it might have been better to navigate. The website pasteapp.io wasn’t poor, but it needs improvements, in my opinion.

My eCommerce site of choice was Fanatics.com. I went on the website to buy a hockey jersey. The homepage of the website is very clean, meaning that at the top of the page it has a search bar that you can easily access to search anything you want. I was very fond of the fact that it also has logos of the different sports leagues that you can click on. Further down the website, it has big pictures of different sales that are going on which were very appealing to the eye. Since I was looking for a hockey jersey, I clicked on the NHL logo at the top of the website. Whenever I clicked on the website, a menu popped up of the different teams. I was looking for a San Jose Shark’s jersey, so I went and clicked on the logo that was labeled San Jose Sharks. Seemed easy enough so far to click on logos that were familiar instead of just clicking on text. On the left-hand side of the website, there was a filtering menu that let you choose the type of product you want and the player you may be seeking. I sorted through the jersey’s and chose one to put in the cart. Something that I did not find to be visually pleasing was the lack of images for sorting out product. There is only text, no visual cues for the list of items available. Once you read through and focus on the item that you want and click on it, there are then different images that they use for the product. After you put it in the cart, there is a shopping cart logo up top, and you would click there to find what you clicked on and added. My user experience from this website overall is that it clearly showed where you could find all their products. You could go from a list of leagues to a list of teams and then to finding exactly what you are searching for. The only time I was thinking was on what player I wanted to get. It was very easy to navigate through the website.