When I first looked at this site I had a visual sensory meltdown. At its core there is no contrast, which destroys its readability and knack for navigation since my eye isn’t drawn to any one point. I looked at it for roughly 30 seconds and still have no idea what’s going on, although most of that time was spent trying to figure out what was and wasn’t part of the background.
So this one is a little over the top, and probably cheating in a lot of ways since it is trying to be bad. But all the elements are there: the cheesy/crappy gif background, the obnoxious colors, and the poor layout. It does its job well though in getting its point across through example, and I almost don’t want to say this site is necessarily bad. Yet for the sake of design I’m throwing it in as bad, since the site itself will agree with me. Really the tipping point for me was I had no idea what it was immediately and what its overall point was. Only when I started reading the content did I figure out it was a learning site. So on this one communication killed it once again.
Besides the fact I spend hours on this site, it does provide easy navigation for the amount of content on it. Overall this site is a gallery of videos, images, and news conversations, which can really be a mess to look through if set up poorly (and even when it’s set up well in some cases). Yet the different tiers of pages allow for the user to quickly narrow down the categories before even looking for a specific subject matter, which makes for easy navigation. The only problem is if the subject has a lot of material in and of itself, which is still piled under one tab. Yet I’ve never gotten lost, so this one is going under the good.
Who doesn’t like Hulu? They post recent videos on the homepage, and recommend to you based on what you watch. This site interacts with the user and is easy to search through a semi-interactive search bar at the top of the screen. It’s so image driven, with the majority of the text being the descriptions of the episode when you scroll over the button. This site is so intuitively driven, which is how a multimedia site should be.
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