View Full Version : Website ergonomics.
Johnny Toetags
03-15-2005, 05:40 PM
Hey gang, this is a serious thread so unless you want neg rep, stick to the subject.
I'm currently working on a project on Websites ergonomics. I know this site isn't necessarily the best in that respect (and we're working on that btw.) and I'll be using it as a prime example for my class project.
But I need others. Serious, large well-known websites that you feel just has crappy design and is frustrating to navigate through.
Help a brotha out.
DrOctagon
03-15-2005, 05:58 PM
The Pride official website pisses me off.
Johnny Toetags
03-15-2005, 06:02 PM
That's because it's in dirty jap pig latin.
I want bigger stuff like, ebay or yahoo... bigger stuff. ideas?
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 06:09 PM
I have a major problem with the way myspace's front page is laid out. There is stuff going on everywhere, and although all the main links are at the top, easily laid out, it takes awhile to move your eyes to the top and see them.
DrOctagon
03-15-2005, 06:10 PM
Amazon.
*Filler*
Attila
03-15-2005, 06:10 PM
sfuk.net is an English MMA site and it sux even tho it has quite a few members. Take a look at it.
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 06:11 PM
Yahoo is a big clusterfuck as well.
Johnny Toetags
03-15-2005, 06:13 PM
I need things of broader appeal. I'll be presenting this in front of an assembly so all these MMA sites and dating sites won't fly. Think major coporations, worldwide sites, that type of deal.
DrOctagon
03-15-2005, 06:15 PM
I need things of broader appeal. I'll be presenting this in front of an assembly so all these MMA sites and dating sites won't fly. Think major coporations, worldwide sites, that type of deal.
So what you are saying is that you want us to do your homework.
DrOctagon
03-15-2005, 06:16 PM
Check this out, pretty weak if you ask me.
http://www.sony.net/
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 06:18 PM
I need things of broader appeal. I'll be presenting this in front of an assembly so all these MMA sites and dating sites won't fly. Think major coporations, worldwide sites, that type of deal.
Cough yahoo cough.
Think, what do most people use Yahoo for.
Games, webmail, and search functions. These should be highlighted, turned into icons, whatever draws you to them faster.
The main page is inundated with information. Little peeks into the news to draw you further into the site, ads, featured services, weather ticker, There are three areas where it tells you yahoo's services....
I dislike going to a website where I have to search around for more than 5 seconds to find where I want to go, in fact, I avoid going to those sites unless I absolutely had to.
Johnny Toetags
03-15-2005, 06:21 PM
Cough yahoo cough.
Think, what do most people use Yahoo for.
Games, webmail, and search functions. These should be highlighted, turned into icons, whatever draws you to them faster.
The main page is inundated with information. Little peeks into the news to draw you further into the site, ads, featured services, weather ticker, There are three areas where it tells you yahoo's services....
I dislike going to a website where I have to search around for more than 5 seconds to find where I want to go, in fact, I avoid going to those sites unless I absolutely had to.
statistically - you're impatient. Most people wait 8 to 9 seconds.
University of Calgary website...
You have to move the cursor over the damn tab to figure out which faculty you're about to open up...
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 06:25 PM
statistically - you're impatient. Most people wait 8 to 9 seconds.
Damn right I am impatient, but honestly...3 more seconds isn't going to do much when what I am looking for, isn't highlighted to any degree.
If the words blend in with the rest of the text, it makes the entire page difficult to navigate and hard on the eyes.
Johnny Toetags
03-15-2005, 06:27 PM
University of Calgary website...
You have to move the cursor over the damn tab to figure out which faculty you're about to open up...
link? my uni loves bashing other schools.
link? my uni loves bashing other schools.
Where are my rep points, mofo?
http://www.ucalgary.ca
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 06:43 PM
http://www.southwest.msus.edu/
This page frustrates me too. There is so much going on around the page, that I miss the links to the school's information, mid screen. The main links are also in a darker color, causing them to fade to the back a bit.
http://www.southwest.msus.edu/
This page frustrates me too. There is so much going on around the page, that I miss the links to the school's information, mid screen. The main links are also in a darker color, causing them to fade to the back a bit.
JOHNNY!!!1
LINS IS COPYING ME!!!11!!!! :mad:
The Kraken
03-15-2005, 06:49 PM
I would submit comcast.com - not so much design as for intent. If you click 'Get Prices' which is what all potential customer want to know first, basically, you arriver here: https://comcast.com/Localization/default.asp?Referer=/Buyflow/default.ashx. Notice that they don't ask you for your general area to check available services, they want your exact address (you can make it up I'm sure, but still...) and the 'Remember Me' checkbox is preselected. That's just too nosy for me. I automatically don't trust them.
Johnny Toetags
03-15-2005, 06:50 PM
positive rep for K, negatory rep for L.
Quit copying him Linds.
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 06:52 PM
positive rep for K, negatory rep for L.
Quit copying him Linds.
Are you fucking kidding me? That is bullshit, I was just trying to help you out on your goddamn homework and I get tattled on. Son of a bitch. Fuck you guys.
Also this one:
http://sympatico.msn.ca/
Too much information...
Too crowded...
Looks too similar so you can't tell shit apart...
Also the font sucks...
It reminds me of JTT posts actually...
Are you fucking kidding me? That is bullshit, I was just trying to help you out on your goddamn homework and I get tattled on. Son of a bitch. Fuck you guys.
*ahem*
HA HA!!!
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 06:57 PM
Stay on topic, dickwad.
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/home.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@0581140800.1110916514@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccgfaddedljfhimcehgcemgdffmdggg.0&vertical=SEARS
The side frame needs to have another font type. A serif of some kind.
Where it says, see more, in all of the categories, this needs to be exemplified somehow. Automotive, baby and clothing all run together it seems as a group.
Johnny Toetags
03-15-2005, 06:57 PM
Are you fucking kidding me? That is bullshit, I was just trying to help you out on your goddamn homework and I get tattled on. Son of a bitch. Fuck you guys.
now now Ch?rie, no one likes a whiner...
Stay on topic, dickwad.
http://www.sears.com/sr/javasr/home.do?BV_SessionID=@@@@0581140800.1110916514@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccgfaddedljfhimcehgcemgdffmdggg.0&vertical=SEARS
The side frame needs to have another font type. A serif of some kind.
Where it says, see more, in all of the categories, this needs to be exemplified somehow. Automotive, baby and clothing all run together it seems as a group.
Also there aren't any models for the women's underwear section...
There's a generation of young males that may grow up without ever having jerked off to a sears catalog!!!!
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 07:00 PM
http://mcdonalds.com/usa.html
While it is a simply designed page, which in most cases is a good thing. The page barely advertises what they want it to, their food. The tabs on the top move around too much when you move across them, and don't properly tell you what the tab will do once you click on it. Making it extremely hard to find something that you aren't sure which category it would be in.
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 07:02 PM
now now Ch?rie, no one likes a whiner...
Bullshit Johnny, I'm trying to actually help you and he is acting like a kindergartener by tattling on me.
Bullshit Johnny, I'm trying to actually help you and he is acting like a kindergartener by tattling on me.
You were copying me!!!111!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 07:05 PM
You were copying me!!!111!! :mad: :mad: :mad:
So I threw another school up, it wasn't as if it was the same school, or even a school in the same country. I put it up because it is on my favorites list and it is one that I have to look at every day, and become frusterated by every day. Quit your damn whining and move along.
So I threw another school up, it wasn't as if it was the same school, or even a school in the same country. I put it up because it is on my favorites list and it is one that I have to look at every day, and become frusterated by every day. Quit your damn whining and move along.
"frustrated". *hitler*
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 07:07 PM
I think the Ikea site is a bit hard to navigate, not the worst I have seen by far, but, the differences in languages makes it a little tough. Also, along the left side frame, they would preferably have descriptions of what is in each of the categories...possibly by a pop up box whenever you moved your mouse over it.
Johnny Toetags
03-15-2005, 07:33 PM
Seriously though, thanks for these suggestions. I was drawing a blank... I tend to not bookmark sites that piss me off so I couldn't think of anything.
Zeffryn
03-15-2005, 07:36 PM
Seriously though, thanks for these suggestions. I was drawing a blank... I tend to not bookmark sites that piss me off so I couldn't think of anything.
Unfortunately, I have to bookmark pages that piss me off....they tend to be part of my daily life.
Good luck with the rest of your homework :)
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