15. September 2009 by Michelle.

http://www.sr.se/p1/src/sing/  Let them sing it for you

This website launches you to a player where you can type in whatever words, or sentences you want, and it sings it as a song for you. It basically lets you create your own song with your own lyrics, while it is using the words from very popular songs. If there is a word that the website cannot identify, it lets you submit the word and the song it is featured in, so that this particular word can be added to the vocabulary for future reference. Really fun and great studybreak.

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14. September 2009 by Rosario.

http://pinkmonkey.com/This site has horrible information architecture. I had one of my friends go on the website to see if he could figure out how to work it. As, expected, he had no idea what to click to get to the main site from the home page and so on and so forth. This is a website that you have to guess at things to try to get to what you are looking for. And the bad thing is that there is no easy way of getting back to where you started. 

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14. September 2009 by Rosario.

http://www.rebrand.com/2009-winners-brands This link has great information architecture because it is really easy to manage through the menu bar. Since the menu bar appears on the top of every page, it is easy to navigate yourself back through the page. A great feature is that whenever you click on a link of the page you are looking at, another menu bar appears on the left. This bar shows you the steps you took to get where you are and it allows you to click on any of the pervious pages you were on so its easy to go back to something you were looking at. One last feature that helps out the navigation is that at the bottom of the page there is a “go back” button that get you back where you were too. 

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14. September 2009 by Matthew.

http://coopermanjewelry.com/rings.phpthis is a beautiful site. as you mouse over any of the images it gives you more information on the side. the navigation bar is straight forward and easy to use as well

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14. September 2009 by Matthew.

http://www.oxfordrents.com/home.htmSadly this is the website for my apartment complex. This site sucks ! There is no useful information in it and it barely any substance. You have to link to another completely different website to see any real information about the apartments.

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13. September 2009 by Emily.

http://www.pentagram.com/en/This is the site for Pentagram, an internationally renowned design firm.  This site is very nicely laid out, and opens pictures of gallery work and recent pieces immediately.  Along the left site are a series of helpful links, not too many or too few for good navigation. While clicking around on the site I found that I could get anywhere on the site in less than 3 clicks.  I got the feeling that everything was laid out in the open for me while navigating this site.

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13. September 2009 by Emily.

http://nineplanets.org/This site has no real layout at all. Its information architecture only consists of a physical outline with links to each node of the outline. I actually saw a link to “Bill’s site map” before I saw these links, so I clicked on that first instead.  It led me to a place that had no helpful information and made me laugh out loud it was so ridiculous.

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13. September 2009 by Carrie.

http://www.marsh.net/If I had no idea what Marsh was, I wouldn’t understand it by looking at this page.  I would be able to see that it is a supermarket, it doesn’t showcase anything else that Marsh stands for.  Even after the advertisement at the top finally loaded, I still couldn’t understand what they were trying to say.

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13. September 2009 by Carrie.

http://www.kroger.com/Pages/default.aspxThe Kroger home page makes their concept very clear right away.  The first thing I look at when the page opens is the pencil.  Then coupons for food show up underneath.  Clearly, Kroger is trying to  promote back to school for parents (moms).  The ad at the top is clearly meant for moms eyes to see because it advertises flu prevention for kids.

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11. September 2009 by Haley.

Victory Lane Chrome Shop though chrome might get a lot of street cred, this website certainly doesn’t.

- It’s overwhelming. Where do you go first?

- Navigation is redundant and haphazard. Redundant navigation is so annoying. You never know if you’re going to get the same thing, or some new, helpful information. Also, the cursor for the gray navigation bar on top is a text cursor (I’m not sure what the technical name for that is, but scroll over it and you’ll know what I mean) which is confusing for people that don’t have design/internet experience. Do you click? Or are those words there as a teaser??

- There’s no aesthetic cohesion. There are several navigation sets, all using different fonts, different backgrounds, some links appear as buttons, some appear as text, and some are simply icons. Super confusing as well as ugly.

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11. September 2009 by Haley.

Visual Complexity is essentially an index of aesthetically masterful complex visual references.

- The large, colorful thumbnails pull the audience into the focus of the site: the images/projects themselves.

- Each page features a gray header containing essential navigation links: home, about, stats, search etc.  making basic navigation accessible and effective.

- Colorful icons to twitter and other applications are tastefully (and helpfully) displayed in the top right corner, again emphasizing accessibility.

- A helpful filter on the right allows the user to narrow their search of visual references by method, trend, year, or top author. They are also arranged in sixteen subsections.

- Boring math brains could easily navigate and enjoy this website, but it’s just as enjoyable for people more aesthetically minded.

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8. September 2009 by Rosario.

http://www.lookatbook.com-there is too much going on on this page-because there is no harmony  in this page it is slow aT loading because more things are presented to you than what you need-the menu is also not simple or easy to use so the technology is not good for the user 

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8. September 2009 by Rosario.

http://ml.hoogerbrugge.com -this is good harmony between technology and user because the technology allows the user to navigate the site well-Good because the user goes on the website to play around with the animations and that is all the website does.-good because there is no extra items on the site that you don’t need that will make the sight load slower 

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8. September 2009 by Paul.

http://www.bermuda-triangle.org/

Worst Site Ever.  It’s ugly, the links are everywhere.  I can’t navigate the website, so it makes it horrible.  This website makes me cry, cry, cry.  But perhaps the government is messing up their website to cover-up the truth.

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8. September 2009 by Paul.

This is a great example of an interactive website.   Press the buttons become daft punk.  Horrah.

http://www.dothedaft.com/idaft/

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8. September 2009 by Paul.

http://www.playboyarchive.com/

A summer of stumbling and I at some point arrived at this gem on Digg.  It’s kinda neat.  A viewable achieve of playboy magazines.  I think it could have done better, for example having the text be linkable, and perhaps having the entire catalogue online, but just as a viewer on one level it’s kinda cool.  I’d like to see this type of thing with National Geographic or something.

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8. September 2009 by Caitlin.

http://www.miauk.com/First of all, your eye has no idea what to look at. The background is blinking with crazy patterns and neon colors. There are so many different designs going on that the links get totally lost. Furthermore, the font they picked is hard to read when being mixed with everything else.

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8. September 2009 by Caitlin.

http://www.mono-1.com/monoface/main.html

This a design firm in Minneapolis, MN. They made this website and sent it out around New Years to all of their past and current clients. Its really entertaining if you want to waste time! I have no idea how they made this..Photoshop or Flash maybe? There are 759,375 possible faces. Check it out!

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8. September 2009 by Anne-Marie.

http://www.fwaphoto.com/#/2009-09-08/

• usability is very good. easy to scroll through the photos
• lets you save your favorite photos
• lets you comment on each photo or just send feedback to the site in general

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8. September 2009 by Carrie.

http://ww32.1800flowers.com/This flower site is so confusing! The main page shows only various flower combinations, instead of giving you the option to choose what flowers you want.  I would not purchase flowers from this website.

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