Usability - marvellous
Online journalism teachers Simon Williams and Bob Atkins talked to us about usability today. As far as I'm concerned, there is no excuse for poor usability on a website. Making your website easy to navigate and easy to use takes only a little bit of extra thought, and yet I am constantly amazed by how readily people will put up with mediocrity online.
I reckon Google have got it cracked. You know where you are with Google. Black on white. A little bit of blue. A splash of colour here and there. But always straightforward, be it the search engine, Google Earth, Google Video or Google Mail. Clear, straight lines. Marvellous.
It's a similar economy of style that I believe gives Facebook the upper hand over MySpace in the battle of the 'social networking' websites. MySpace has been around longer, and is used by far more people, but I think it's messy and cluttered, with amateurish little graphics all over the place and a horrendous mish-mash of colours.
I'd like to think that this blog abides by the stylistic principles adopted by both Google and Facebook, but feel free to let me know if you think it looks rubbish.
I reckon Google have got it cracked. You know where you are with Google. Black on white. A little bit of blue. A splash of colour here and there. But always straightforward, be it the search engine, Google Earth, Google Video or Google Mail. Clear, straight lines. Marvellous.
It's a similar economy of style that I believe gives Facebook the upper hand over MySpace in the battle of the 'social networking' websites. MySpace has been around longer, and is used by far more people, but I think it's messy and cluttered, with amateurish little graphics all over the place and a horrendous mish-mash of colours.
I'd like to think that this blog abides by the stylistic principles adopted by both Google and Facebook, but feel free to let me know if you think it looks rubbish.
posted by Tom Williams at 10:00 PM
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