Sunday, October 20, 2013

Non-linear website critique

On this website, my instructor didn't like that some items are based on photography and others are illustration. Personally, I don't have a problem with that. I thought this is supposed to be like the psychogeography type of traveling where you don't know what to expect. Obviously, the way I did it was not what was expected. I suppose if I'm going to mix things up maybe every page should have a mixture of photography and illustration. That would make it clear that this is what I intended. Although it wouldn't be something that would make people think about what they expect when surfing the web.
Another problem was the size of some things was smaller than others. Again using the whole screen was mentioned. I discussed what I think about that in the post on the critique of my website.
Someone mentioned that she found the animated gif of the running cat distracting on the pages with videos. I can understand where that could be distracting. Too many things competing for attention on the same page.
I guess my navigation wasn't clear, although every page linked to at least two others. I didn't think it was required that I put the navigation in only small spots. It makes sense to increase the difficulty in a linear project such as a video game, but who wants to start out with easy navigation, progress to something more difficult and then go back to the easier one since this is non-linear. I guess I didn't do what was expected here either.

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