Alright, so the website that I chose to analyze is nutrition.gov, which I thought was ineffective. Here it goes:
-Alignment: This website uses center alignment which is gives the website a very formal look. I guess it is a .gov website so it should be more formal looking, but this website also is very boring to look at because of the use of center alignment. On the other hand, everything is aligned with something else in a very logical manner and the information is organized very clearly, which is good. I just think that they could have experimented more with left and right alignment to make the home page more interesting to look at.
-Contrast: This web page doesn't really place emphasis on any certain text or image, so my eyes aren't drawn to anything right off the bat. Since nothing really catches my attention by being different and standing out, I don't know what information is the most important. They also don't use colors or fonts that really stand out and catch my attention.
-Proximity: I guess I kind of talked about this aspect with alignment, but the website does a great job of grouping information together and grouping it together in a very logical manner. In that way, I think it is effective. But also, nothing really stands out on the page, so it makes it difficult to know what is the most important information on the page.
-Repetition: There is not a whole lot of repetition in the design of this website. They kind of repeat colors and fonts, but it is mostly dull colors such as navy blue and gray and boring kinds of fonts that aren't very interesting to look at. There is a lot of text on the page as well, which doesn't help it to look unified and simple.
-Composition: I thought that the placement of the picture on the web page could have been better in order to create a better visual effect. It is pretty small and it is centered near the top of the page. I also thought that they could use a better picture to correlate with nutrition that could better represent the purpose of the website. I don't think that the "rule of thirds" was applied here, but I might be wrong.
*I feel like a pessimist now after writing that, but I really do love nutrition! I just happen to think that their website is ineffective haha.
So it sounds like this website is effective at getting you to information, but isn't really fun to look at? Hmmm, I agree. Even if it is a .gov site, they could always make it more interesting. They don't have to be so formal.
ReplyDeleteI just went over there to nutrition.gov and I agree with you on all of that, especially the part about nothing standing out. The first words that popped to me when I went there were "en espanol" so I thought it was the wrong website.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm not such a fan of this website either. You're so right about it be logical or whatever, but the presentation is very lacking. I feel like they should varied the size of things. Everything looked pretty much the same.
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