1a. What are the goals of Apple’s website?
- The goal of apples website is to make the user experience effortless, use it without thinking, helping people work faster and more efficient, and make fewer mistakes.
1b. How does Apple’s website address the needs of a user who has just purchased their first MacBook?
- Apples website uses user segmentation and is organized by categories (i.e Mac, iPhone, iPad) to help the user find what they are looking for in smaller groups. Apple also has a support category for more in depth help.
2a. What are the functional specifications of Facebook’s wall?
- The facebook wall shows your interests, things you “like”, certain friends/groups, and ads
2b. If you are not on Facebook what are the specs for the signup page?
- the sign up page asks for your first and last name, email, password, phone number, date of birth, and gender.
3. What are four architectural approaches to information structure? Find one example of each.
- hierarchical– Facebook, twitter, any social media that has advertisements, it always comes back to that social media site.
- matrix– Clothing websites (i.e Forever 21), you can look by the size, color, price or specific product.
- organic- Pinterest- sometimes you cant find the site where it came from
- sequential- youtube
4a. What percentage of The Huffington Post index page is navigation, and what percentage is content
- not really sure about percentage but the navigation had 11 categories & 38 subcategories (content)
4b. What about Google, Wikipedia, and Etsy?
- etsy- 8 navigation, 42 content
- wiki- 5 navigation
- google- 5 navigation
How does http://landor.com guide the readers’ eyes and focus their attention on what is important?
- it has contrast to draw the readers eye and focus their attention
- the layout
- maintains uniformity