Using these criteria, find a web site (or app), or a part of a web site (or app), that you might consider to be obvious design. Your task is this:
URL: http://imgur.comThe website is called imgur.com. It is an image hosting site which people can post picture to. I find this is a obvious design because it displays pictures that people post and is much like reddit. Reddit has what is called a front page. In both reddit and imgur, people can upvote or downvote a post. when an image or post gets upvoted, it moves up the ranks. On the front page, the most upvoted posts during a certain time are shown, such as the day, month, year, or all time. This makes it easy for people to view images/posts that other people enjoy. It also has a viral search parameter that shows the most viral images/posts of the day. you can easily change different parameters, such as times that votes are tallied. It also allows people to view pictures that are being uploaded in real-time. This is an obvious design for an image sharing site because it allows the best pictures to be shown to the widest amount of people. It also has easy navigation, it uses the keyboard's arrow keys to change pictures, and the number pad to vote on images.
Baker, you are talking more about Reddit than imgur. Why not just use Reddit, and focus on the up and down vote as the obvious design? The way you used Reddit to describe imgur makes the design of imgur not as obvious. when clicking on the photo, I just see pictures and squares. The voting system is not displayed, or at least I don't see them. With that in mind, the design is not as obvious.
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