Wotke Response
This Wotke book has helped me this most as far as the web design aspect goes in this class. I felt like this book was well put together and definitely brought some things to my attention that I really never thought about before. I will go over a few main points that really changed my thinking and that I kept in mind throughout the design phase of our CSF group website.One thing that really changed the way I design is the 7 link rule. You can tell that most websites don’t abide by this rule. Every time you go to as site like amazon.com or even bestbuy.com there are so many places to click that you really have to sit down and deside where you like to go, so that you don’t end up clicking advertisements. I think this rule definitely serves its purpose. & main links really change the way I navigate sites. The tab bar design was a great choice for my group because it always gives you those main 6 pages to come back to and doesn’t provide too many options.
Another rule that I learned a lot from was the ergonomics of a website rule. When designing a site it is important not to make people stretch and move their eyes all over a page. It is also important to not make people scroll very much, especially if you are viewing on an internet kiosk. When designing for a certain audience it is critical to keep this rules in mind.
Wotke’s rule of too much text is bad and users don’t like to read, is a little hard to live with. I can understand on a main page of a website that a lot of text is not needed. To get a point across on a lot of pages, long lines of text may be needed. One of the most annoying things to go to is a website where you are reading a story and the designer followed this rule. Every time you click next you get closer and closer to just ditching the website all together. I think that rule has it’s place but not on every page of a site. Just think, one of the most popular things on the internet today are web blogs…. And what are they? A whole bunch of text on one page.
Overall Wotke had some simple and efficient rules to follow in web design and she was definitely on target. I will be using this book and her rules to design with from now on. This will be a book that I don’t sell back to Hendrix.
posted by JCTiger @ 7:55 AM
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