Don’t Make Me Think? These two chapters have made me think a lot! I’m fascinated by the way we, the designers, and the users perceive webpages differently.
When I design a webpage, my first thought is to make it very user-friendly, and more or less, simple. I do see how I, the designer, view the contents and layout of a webpage, I focus on the color relationships, text relationships, if the space between the menu buttons are too close or too far apart, etc.. But then I put myself into the user’s shoes and looked at a site like Amazon.com, for instance. I immediately look for the search bar, then I panned the bold ads that are in the center of the screen, then up to the left corner where their logo is. I’m familiar with this site, so I suppose it’s not as hard to decipher compared to a brand new user.
I see this to be like a silent movie that everyone has made their own script to, and here (the textbook) we have the script, the blatantly obvious script to how we use webpages and the internet in general. What I get from how we scan pages rather than read them, is that it’s completely true. ‘I came [to this webpage] to find something and I don’t want to waste my time looking at other things besides that’ and I think it’s unfortunate how in this day and age, we are constantly in need of immediate satisfaction.
Here are some portfolio sites that I found and admire:
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