5 Examples of Good Website

WEEK 1: 5 examples of good websites

NADIA LARASHARI S Animation Techniques | Term 5 — Oct 2014

HTTP://24HOURSOFHAPPY.COM Visual • The website is visually consistent by using the same colour, typeface, and placement of the video (in the middle).

• I think yellow is really represent the content, which is Happy because yellow is a fun, bright, and optimist. The feel of this colour is not dull.

• By giving some video of people from anywhere and anytime with a happy faces makes the song more applicable and meaningful that happiness can comes in everyone.

• Consistency on the video angle. The people are always appear on the center of the video.

• Consistency on the activity. It’s all about moving forward.

• Due to that consistencies, I can conclude that all of them are unite.

Technical It’s not hard to use this website. It only by dragging the circle on the orbit.

Navigation • Things that we need to navigate is clearly seen on the site. For example if we want to share it on twitter, the twitter sign csn be clearly seen on the right side.

• I like when it opens the page for the first time, the clock is just the same with our clock Content • I really really like the meaning of this website. I can straightly know what is the message of this website. It just a simple video of being happy in 24 hours. It reminds me that happiness is just as simple as that. You can find it anytime. And everything looks great when you are happy. No need things to be worried about.

• Somehow it touches my heart and reminds me to be happy.

• Pharrell makes the song familiar by repeating it for 24 hours.

WHY I like this site?

• It is meaningful.

• The message is straight forward. I clearly can get the meaning of to be happy every time.

• The application of time on the website is also make sense. If we adjust any time, we always can see the happy people.

• It makes us remember about the song and happy feeling that we must have everyday, every time, everywhere, and everyone deserve it!

• I think without adding another feature, we can already know the meaning or the message.

• Message that I got: Being happy is as simple as that. And it happens in anywhere and anytime. It depends on you.

HTTP://WWW.THEUNIVERSALTYPEFACE.COM/ Visual • Consistent. All the activities are in the middle of the page.

• It’s quite an unusual thing that having a survey on average typeface that humans made by combining all of the hand letter that each person made.

Technical Not hard. The instruction is clear and I know what to do.

Navigation • It’s already looks nice. We can see the comparison between each other handwriting. We also can see the conclusion, or the site call it Universal Typeface about people all over the world. We can see it in one place, and that’s nice how it combine the handwriting and the conclusion.

Content • To know the people styles of handwriting. Maybe we could make it as an inspiration?

• To give a conclusion about what kind of typeface resulted if some of the handwriting are combined.

WHY I like this site?

• It is fun to have this! It’s like I know the things that never been think yet on my mind.

• I feel like I really involved on this website.

HTTP://PLEASUREHUNT2.MYMAGNUM.COM/ Visual • I like the way it combines reality and today’s habit which is Internet.

• We can have some information with a fun way (playing a game) • Imaginative. It feels like living in the browser and explore what things that I’m gonna do.

Technical Not hard. Just by using the arrow buttons and space.

Navigation The website interaction is so fun. We can having fun by opening this page. I have never seen any kind of website like this before.

Content • To remember that we can get pleasure everywhere by eating magnum • Magnum’s chocolate is addicting. We will run and don’t care about how big the obstacle is to get the chocolate.

WHY I like this site?

• I can having fun on this site. It’s not just the ordinary website that we have to figure out things that we want to know. This website bring us to its world.

• Unpredictable. Every scene of the game is just surprising. Like I always wondering what’s next that makes me getting curious.

HTTP://WWW.GOODTHINGSSHOULDNEVEREND.CO.UK/ Visual • It visually friendly, cheerful, happy, and colourful. It really fits on the site’s title: Good Things Should Never End • And the endless scrolling really represent the site. We always find different kinds of interactive things.

• Rainbow gives us the hierarchy. It brings us to the things that we can do on the site.

Technical Not hard. Just by scrolling down the site.

Navigation At the first time, I taught it was only scrolling the site. Then i figured it out that I can play around with the object on the site.

Content • Give us a positive thinking or vibes about we could met many good things around us if we seek it and always be positive and happy no mater what the problem is.

• Happiness is all around us WHY I like this site?

• It makes me curious about what will happen next if I scroll down the site.

• And I keep wondering, how long is the site?

• Discovering a new thing. Things that I can do with the interactive things there.

HTTP://CELEBRATEDESIGN.ORG/ Visual • It is visually clean, neat, and simple.

• Consistent typeface and placement. So it looks like one unity.

• We can choose the category that we want to know. So we know the design based on our needs.

• Sometimes the images that suddenly appear on the screen is a bit disturbing because it deter the type that we have to read.

Technical Not hard. Just choosing what category that we want to know and scroll it down Navigation A little bit confusing on the first time between these two options: do I have to go right or scroll down to know the answer? But after that everything is okay.

Content • Celebrate the 100th years of design.

• To give attention and appreciation to the designers on the past 100 years.

• To make us remember about design pioneers.

• Informative content about each artwork.

WHY I like this site?

• Clean.

• Easily read.

• I can remember the pioneers of design world and get some informations about it. It could enhance my knowledge on design.

• Know the new information about design.

• Can use the artworks as an inspiration.