Woodrow Hawk
Elements of the User Experience
1/28/15
1.) The goals of Apple’s website are to grab attention of users to their products, quickly and simply allow people to find what they need, and to share information about their products. And of course selling products and support customers. For someone who just purchased their first macbook, their websit has online manuals, support, and contact information. The audience for a mac is, I assuming, vast and diverse so finding the needs for people buying a mac for the first time could be difficult. Taking consideration of customers whom are not knowledgable of technology and computers, having information like they do on their website for customers to find answers to their problems and struggles is very successful as a solution to the user’s need. Basically, any problem encountered can idealy be solved through their website, either by browsing their webpages on macs, using the searchbar to find answers, or by contacting them directly.
2.) I do not have a facebook. The sign up page is the first page you see. Theres a quick and easy explanation of what facebook can do for the user and then the signing up requirements such as name, email, and such. A website like facebook has advantages for being known. I feel like people who go on to facebook to sign up know what it is so there isnt much needed on the homepage. I wonder how someone would view the homepage not knowing anything about facebook. i feel like it’d be unappealing. The simple information given barely sheds enough light for a newbie to understand what facebook really does, but it is enough to get someone started i suppose. The information that is wanted to be noticed first to direct the user’s interest are altered to be more noticeable. Such as on top of the sign up section it says this is free and always will be in bigger letters than most the page. “sign up” and “connect with friends” is the first thing I see.
3.) Four architectural approaches are hierarchical, matrix, organic, and sequential. Here are examples of each:
-Organic: http://www.eclipse-creative.co.uk/#home.
-Hierarichal: www.apple.com
-Sequential: www.foxnews.com
-matrix: www.battle.net.com
4.) For Huffington Post Index page has mostly navigation with content to gather interest direct people’s attention. Thier navigation itself is content is some means. A user would go on to this website to find updates in current news so the page has pictures and generalized titles to grab attention and also made them clickable to direct them to a page designated to show all the content of what was described in the smaller content. Wikipedia, after searching is mostly content. Although almost every word in the content is a link to another page, its still content for the current page you are on. But if a user is curious about a certain word or idea, it can quickly be navigated to content of that specification.
5.) Landor’s website uses color and transparency to guide our eyes. There are bolder words to gather more interst to that specification. There are big boxes of bright colors and harder to see smaller boxes to direct our attention to certain things. Because basically everything on Landor is box of itself with a picture, it would be easy to manipulate attention across the webpage. What bothers me is thats there is a lot of dim boxes that i have no clue what they are about. I feel my eyes being guided, but i dont know to what; very little information at first.