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User Experience (Usability)
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| Dec 18, 2003 7:04 pm |
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re: re: website design: usable or creative? |
Brian Friesen
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Certainly the mindcomet site is an example of too much going on and no real focus. Not only from a usability standpoint, but from a marketing and design standpoint as well.
Of the other sites you mention, Kyle, there are none which address the issue of pure product marketing. I will try to find some examples of sites which create a valuable product marketing tool while providing easy access to the main function. One or two I can think of off hand would be ecommerce oriented like Crate and Barrel and the Williams-Sonoma site.
Also, a useful tool for examining usability AND design exapmples is http://www.coolhomepages.com which breaks sites into various categories.
Brian
>For example, http://www.answerthink.com, http://www.business.att.com, http://www.boltpeters.com, and http://www.uiarchitects.com, all have a professional and stylish look to them w/out including a lot of art.
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>I think a site like http://www.mindcomet.com is an example where the design went overboard on creativity to the point of impacting the usability of the site.
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