For my interface design, i decided to kill two birds with one stone and design the prototype for the JMU Salamanca Program website I am creating in another class. I will add real text for each slide by sunday when the final project is due.
I think the areas you have chosen to cover for your site are good ones and things that people would be interested in finding out about. I noticed you have life in Harrisonburg, but not Salamanca and was curious why since they do spend time there one summer, don't they? I think UI on the side is clean and user friendly. The purple is a good choice with the neutral background. The gold is good color choice, but for some reason, and it could be me, this gold looks fuzzy to me (could be my eyes or monitor). Also, on your tabs, since some of the choices are single and some double lined, it looks off (particularly life in H'burg). Not sure if you need to chose a font that allow them all to fit better, but this catches eye in a strange way. I also might make the titles a bit stronger either with a bolder font or a graphic or put them in color block. Imagine you will add color/pictures when you add text, so I won't comment on that to much more. I like the setup. Clean and easy to follow.
I agree with Andee that the gold next to the purple looks fuzzy, it has that vibrating effect. Possibly use a neutral color to outline the menu buttons and make the dividing lines in the page, and then use the gold color for the page headings or another dividing line separate from the menu's purple. I also agree that the page headings are too small, or else just have too big of a margin surrounding them... try bringing the headings down to the horizontal line, and over closer to the menu. This frees the top space for contact information or branding.
Also watch your margins in the menu buttons, like Andee said, the Life in Hburg button is off, and my eye went straight to it first.
One other thing I would like to have seen are images or lists, even if they were placeholders. This would show us what a media-heavy page would look like versus a text-heavy page, versus a page full of lists with links. Doing that would also help you figure out if the interactivity (viewing the page) works well in all instances.
I think the areas you have chosen to cover for your site are good ones and things that people would be interested in finding out about. I noticed you have life in Harrisonburg, but not Salamanca and was curious why since they do spend time there one summer, don't they? I think UI on the side is clean and user friendly. The purple is a good choice with the neutral background. The gold is good color choice, but for some reason, and it could be me, this gold looks fuzzy to me (could be my eyes or monitor). Also, on your tabs, since some of the choices are single and some double lined, it looks off (particularly life in H'burg). Not sure if you need to chose a font that allow them all to fit better, but this catches eye in a strange way. I also might make the titles a bit stronger either with a bolder font or a graphic or put them in color block. Imagine you will add color/pictures when you add text, so I won't comment on that to much more. I like the setup. Clean and easy to follow.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Andee that the gold next to the purple looks fuzzy, it has that vibrating effect. Possibly use a neutral color to outline the menu buttons and make the dividing lines in the page, and then use the gold color for the page headings or another dividing line separate from the menu's purple. I also agree that the page headings are too small, or else just have too big of a margin surrounding them... try bringing the headings down to the horizontal line, and over closer to the menu. This frees the top space for contact information or branding.
ReplyDeleteAlso watch your margins in the menu buttons, like Andee said, the Life in Hburg button is off, and my eye went straight to it first.
One other thing I would like to have seen are images or lists, even if they were placeholders. This would show us what a media-heavy page would look like versus a text-heavy page, versus a page full of lists with links. Doing that would also help you figure out if the interactivity (viewing the page) works well in all instances.