Saturday, February 19, 2011

Site: http://www.imdb.com/

The site is very well organized. The sections are easy to follow and there is no overabundance of information. Like game-trailers, you can see the main window prioritizing the most recent movie releases. The layout of the site follows the stylistic visuals of the site's ID creating a sense of familiarity--for instance, the biggest fonts are in yellow.

The subsections are built very much the same way as the primary sections--wherever you click you can expect to find exactly what you want with no ridiculous amounts of information and if there is more information than expected, the site's infrastructure is built in such a way as to have the user find whatever he/she is looking for without much hassle.     

Monday, February 7, 2011

Site: Gametrailers

The site is very well designed and easy to follow. The fonts used in the site have the satisfactory size and the contrast of the colors makes it easier to read. The design is composed of very simple colors that had its origin from the site's logo. The site's information is placed in an orderly fashion and there isn't an overabundance of it that would otherwise make the user confused. From the placement of the main videos, to the reviews, the channels or the highlights--shown in the big screen--you'll very rarely find yourself confused with what the site has to offer.

My main gripe towards the site would be the input direction the user is forced to follow: If you go to the fourth page and watch a video there, when you go back, you no longer find yourself it that exact same page--the viewer is forced to find or scroll to the page he/she was in, in order to watch any other video of interest.