15. September 2009 by Paul.

http://www.crimeboss.com/gallery_intro.html

Well… I like looking at covers of old comic books and stuff, but with image sites in general, I like it when there is an easy way to scroll through a bunch of pictures.  Like for example if  I could have clicked the first picture and continued to click “next” from picture to pictures therefore having an easy way to see these pictures.

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15. September 2009 by Paul.

http://www.ign.com/

I’m a big fan of IGN.com because it’s easy for me to catch up on my gaming news.  They always have the newest things up on the front page, and if I want to search for content by system then that’s easy to use too.  On top of that I’ve got to say It’s pretty good looking considering the vast amount of information presented on the site.

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15. September 2009 by Taylor.

http://sampaints.com/the home page doubles as the blog so common visitors are able to see what had been added since last visit. once you access the main page there are only a few comprehensive links that bring you to thumbnail galleries. although nothing amazing this site gives its users what they want easily  with out having to search thru artsy crap.

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15. September 2009 by Taylor.

http://souvlaki.jp-ar.org/great artists website. the work is amazing but the website presents the information in an odd way. it is hidden to the far right, 70% of the page is empty. the work is organized by when it was posted not categorized or present all at once.

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15. September 2009 by Caitlin.

http://m.www.yahoo.com/Yahoo is a good site in that you can get a lot of information from it. However, the side has tons of different links and there are so many that what you are looking for might fall under many options, making it hard to find what you’re looking for.

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15. September 2009 by Caitlin.

http://www.shopstyle.com/browse/womens-clothesThis site is nice because it carries a wide range of designers and links you right to their site. You can choose a category or shop by price, color, brand, etc. It makes shopping more simple b/c you can hit many stores in just one stop.

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15. September 2009 by Anne-Marie.

The website I chose as a bad link for information architecture is called supergreg.com. http://www.supergreg.com/. I’m not positive really what it is, however i know that sometimes when i am searching for something online, it will pop up and it says that it has what i need and then i click on it and it is really confusing.

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15. September 2009 by Anne-Marie.

The good link that I chose for information architecture is a Pepsi website. http://pepsiecochallenge.com/?or=pusa.1067. Each section is labeled very clearly and it is east to find your way around the website.

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15. September 2009 by Hannah.

http://thinkingspace.economist.com/#/exploreIts hard to tell what the best website I’ve ever come across would be.  So this is the best one I’ve found today.  It is simple, but an interesting idea portrayed in an innovative way by an unlikely group of people.  Unlike most creative/design inspired sites, this site is about economics and economists.  How they get their ideas and where they do their pondering.  Interesting to think about what inspires me verses what inspires an economist.

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15. September 2009 by Amy.

http://www.smarthistory.org/Smart History is like an art history textbook on the internet. It’s information architecture is very easy to navigate and lets you search by time, style, artist, themes, or you can search by key word in the search box. There is also a nice timeline on the home page where you can “explore smarthistory” and view images of artwork. I think this site is easy to navigate and does a good job communicating it’s information.

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15. September 2009 by Amy.

http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.htmlThis site attempts to inform users about world history, however is unsuccessful because it’s information architecture is extremely confusing. There is a question mark button on the home page that tries to help you navigate and inform you where you’re supposed to click to find information. Even this is confusing.

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15. September 2009 by Hannah.

http://www.bicworld.com/inter_en/index.aspI chose this website because it makes it near impossible to find or buy any of their products.  When you first enter the site, it asks what language you would like: French or English.  Because of satisficing, I chose English and thought that I would be fine.  However, when I looked back at the very first page again I noticed the “country” option underneath the initial language bar.  ”USA” was an option, but it was already too late for me as a user.  Not only was that not clear, the English website was littered with tons of French, and none of the links were showing in  my browser because I don’t have the latest Flash player.  Not even the contact page! You can not only not view the items, but purchasing, contacting, etc just seem out of the question.

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15. September 2009 by Jennifer.

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/This is a bad example of informative architecture.  There are links everywhere and it makes it difficult for the user to chose which way is the best to go in order to fin something.  Everything is the same color and size, which gets really difficult to look at sometimes when your trying to find what your looking for. 

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15. September 2009 by Jennifer.

http://www.caferouge.co.uk/menus.php This is a good example of informative architecture because it allows users to easily travel from one page to another with ease.  The information provided on each page is located at the bottom of the website, while still allowing each of the tabs for the pages to be viewed.  This allows for the user to easily return to the previous page they were on. 

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15. September 2009 by Michael.

http://morebad.com/ I chose this as my bad link because it is for an advertising agency I believe and the whole functionality and interactiveness was very frustrating for me. It is pretty cool that they have the entire idea of a grid structure that expands and contracts but is also frustrating because you can click on some images and then slightly move you’re mouse and then the image will shrink again. I think that it is also a little cluttered with too much imagery. There is also a navigation on the bottom of the screen…out of the way and hard to see. But they aren’t even links all they do is highlight the material that relates to that category on the screen. I wish they would link to another page where it just had that material. Overall its very creative but not so successful.

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15. September 2009 by Michael.

http://www.nikon.com/about/feelnikon/universcale/index_f.htm I chose this as my good example this week because it is a really fun interactive website that deals with size relativity. It is called Universcale and it progresses all the way from outer space all the way down to the atom. When you click on one of the objects that is moving along it will give you a brief description. Also when you enter a new tier it will give you a description of what it is and what kinds of things are in it and what they have done for the world. It is a good tool for learning scale and size relativity. It has a cool flow and 3D depth sensitivity. It is also very easy to navigate. All you have to do is use the click of the mouse to navigate around. The bottom part of the webpage lets you click through larger portions of scale or you can just let it go by itself.

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15. September 2009 by Anthony.

http://disney.go.com/indexdisney’s site is so full of flash and icons and videos it is literally overwhelming. it is hard to focus on anything yet alone navigate around to find what you want. i was just surprised  that disney would have a site like this and not one more considerate of design. it is a cluster of colors and animated symbols.

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15. September 2009 by Anthony.

 http://www.nanamiart.com/home/i picked this artist portfolio simply because of how simple his site is. he uses hi res images of his own photography and artwork to make his site look professional and well designed. something that is very easy to do. there is not a lot of typed content .. which is appropriate for the purpose of the site. .. to look at his work .. and the navigation is really easy and fluent.

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15. September 2009 by Michelle.

http://www.trafficsafetystore.com/

Even if the colors are supposed to reflect the products they are selling, it hurts the viewers’ eyes and looks unprofessional. Some of the icons on the main page looked like they were links, but it turned out that you can’t even click on them. The text overlaps the logos at some points  and useless icons are just randomly scattered over the main page. The tabs that are located on the right also confuse me because my eye automatically looks for them on the left side, which is left blank here. The blinking lights are very distracting too.

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15. September 2009 by admin.

Hey guys, I’m sure you have enjoyed using google to find your worst websites, but I’m going to ban any of the top order list of “worst websites” lists provided by other blogs and design oriented sites.  A few examples of resources you can no longer use:

http://www.manolith.com/2009/08/25/worst-website-designs/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/127116/the_25_worst_web_sites.html

http://www.blog.spoongraphics.co.uk/articles/the-5-worst-website-designs-in-the-world

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/03/20/fugly-friday-the-worlds-worst-website/

http://alecrios.com/how-to-make-the-worst-website

You will find the exercise much more useful if you use your own design criteria to determine what is bad and what is not. Anyone can use someone’s else’s opinion, you’ll be paid to use your own, or at least combine yours with a bunch of others.  You may however use these lists as jumping off points for investigating other sites that may fill your criteria for a bad site.

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