Unit 2 Reading Response

CHAPTER 3 Billboard Design 101

This is about creating pages with very clear visual hierarchy and following the three important traits such have more prominent, related logically and visually nested. Pretty much it’s a very big page you see on the front page of newspapers and magazines or driving in the highway and see those big billboards. This is the best way of taking advantages for readers who prefer to just scan through the pages for the big pictures and immediately click them, also many prefer to spend less time reading the details. From what I think and feel about this, I strongly agree with this because I’m the type of person who really don’t like reading the big details but rather scan through and get the idea, I do in fact read the detail only if its small and easy to understand.

CHAPTER 4 Animal, Vegetable, or mineral?

In this chapter it about users clicking mindlessly however there are some certain rules that the users must go through such as updates, and languages. This is about letting the users make the choice for themselves even though there are no decisions to be made or they are just doing random clicks for absolute no reasons. I feel they should make the pages much easier for users to get less frustrated because I’ve been through a lot of web pages that requires certain rules which is really bothersome. I understand the security reasons but if it’s for advertisement or distractions then I feel there should be some changes that needs to be done.

CHAPTER 5 Omit needless Words

This chapter is about needless words on pages. Almost every webpage has lots of paragraph and sentences that are completely useless for users, it’s very common for the introductions of the webpages. I have to agree with this because I really can’t stand the annoying long words that means nothing to me. I understand it’s an introduction about what it’s about or what they do but I doubt it’s necessary when most of us already get the idea of what the webpage’s purpose is.

3 inspiring portfolio

http://seanhalpin.io/

Type is close to times roman and navigation is a long scroll down. Layout is all color and images while parallax seems very well organized. Images are small yet clear to be seen.

http://www.adandypunk.com/

The type appears to be sketched rather than typed except for the navigation details which used something close to Calibri font. Its navigation is almost the same like the others, all are at the top right corner but this is a little hard to see the navigation when they blend in within the background. The layout shows black and white colors with photos and sketch art. The parallax is shows project in different order and rows the images shows to be large and clear enough.

http://studioschurk.nl/

The type is close to Arial rounded and navigation is scrolling up and down. The layout is each pages shows the projects and animations while the parallax seems very well organized. The images use is very large and clear to be seen.