Analyzing Website Design

Oh kay, this is my first post of Human-Computer Interaction assignment.

The intro

We, as bloggers of course often go to websites looking for… yeah, many things. But you might (at least once) notice that there’s a website that just simply easy to use and navigate to look the information for, and there’s one website that can make you feel like “Ugh, where can I find that post?” or “This stupid web owner doesn’t even know how to mix colors, it’s hurting my eyes” and “I can’t read those posts because I have half color blind, and the text is not contrast”.

Yeah, we definitely have gone through that probs. And luckily for you guys, bloggers, readers, or anyone who’s interested in designing websites or webpages, I’m gonna give y’all some points for you to notice.

1. Usability
2. Navigation
3. Graphic Design
4. Contents
5. Compatibility
6. Loading Time
7. Accessibility, and
8. Interactivity

I am going to use this website as an example (whether it’s good or not-really-good-and-need-some-improvements)

www.houzz.com

Houzz started with a house. It’s what is written on the page. The founder, Adi and Alon, built this site because they wanted to remodel their home. They started reading stack of magazines and referrals for home professionals. But those ways failed to make their dream a reality. ‘Kay, cut the cr*p already, here’s the analysis.

USABILITY

The homepage

Houzz is a website for home remodeling and design, bringing homeowners and home professionals together in a community. You can find any home ideas, room ideas, and you can even ask for consult with home professionals. It’s great, isn’t it? I’ll give 9/10 for the ideas.

NAVIGATION

The navbar

Search feature

Houzz has pretty useful navigation bar. You can easily find any room ideas in the navigation bar. Just hover your mouse on it and voila, you can have every detailed about the room. Also, the search bar has many features so you can easily jump to your preferred section. And it’s 9.2/10 for me.

GRAPHIC DESIGN

It’s all white, simple, with beautiful font selection. The only colorful thing in this website is the photo. They shot adorable photo ideas. And it’s eye catching. 8.8/10 for this one.

CONTENT

Don't tell me this site is useless, cause it's not, really. This site will help you build your dream house. 9.0/10.

COMPATIBILITY

Houzz works perfectly on today's screen resolution. I guess you need javascript enabled first and you can get the animations. Sadly, this site isn't really responsive for mobile viewing. Look at this screenshot below:

Mobile viewing

But don't worry fellow, you can get the mobile application of this website which is available for both Android and iOS. Well, maybe it's 7.0/10.

LOADING TIME

Fella, please understand that you're accessing full-image content website. So, it really does take time to open this site up. Unless you have better internet connection. :)

I'm giving 8.4/10

ACCESSIBILITY

Houzz doesn't really provide good design for people with disability. For example, the text color and size of course match with the white background, but it doesn't provide good contrast for those who have eye disability, like old people. Maybe it's 7.7/10.

INTERACTIVITY

Houzz provide an impressive animations. The first thing you'll notice is that there's a slideshow photos on the homepage. You can see how beautiful the transition between photos. The text changes color when you hover your mouse on it.

When you scroll down the page, you'll see the navbar sliding up out (disappear) and when you hover back your mouse,  the navbar will come sliding down again, and it's quite beautiful. For those points, I'll give it 9.5/10.

(end of the analysis)

I'm calculating... (beep, beep, beep)

From those numbers, I'll give Houzz

8.5/10

Adi and Alon, do deserve credits for the idea, but the website designer deserves more credits, applause, and any good things because (s)he can provide an efficient way for users to interact with the site without having any problem (tested on me, as the user).

Houzz is a great example for building a good website.

P.S. I love the content so much :*

P.S.S. I also have commented on several fellow bloggers too, like Eylien Desy Novita's, Utari Ambarwati's, and Ihsan Fikrie's

Thank you so much for reading a such a long post for me :') (it's gonna make my day, ya know)

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