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 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 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 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 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 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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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 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://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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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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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 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 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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