The website that I have chosen is SB Nation. This website is for sports fans that want the news on everything sports. Everything is very easy to read on their website and is very self explanatory. It allows the user to, "... get what they need and move on." (Hoekman 7) From the Homepage the user is able to click on the featured stories for that day that are general sports stories. They can also clearly see all of the different sports at the top of the page that enables them to click on a specific sport to see news about. Also, within that bar there are drop down menus for each sport that allow users to pick specific teams are events depending on the sport. Those teams are also sorted by conference to make it even easier for the user to find what they are looking for.
This site is very straight forward for any user. Everything is very easy to read and easy to find. The user is able to quickly get news for exactly what they want. It is a very self explanatory website. To get news for a certain sport you click on it, to get it for a specific team you click on it. They don't have to use a search bar to find everything, even though there is one, because it is so easy to use and find your news without it. To me and many other users this is a very obvious design for a website because it is very self explanatory and you are able to quickly get your information for the day and be done.
Are the images of Manning, or the five boxes, highlight stories? It's not obvious what category they belong in. At the top of the page, the sections or sports to select form is very obvious due to text. Great job pointing that out and explaining how the site works.
ReplyDeleteThose are just the featured stories some are highlights some are interviews etc. and generally say what they are below them so for their target audience they would know what they belong to or that it isn't something they care about. Its also generally the main sport of the season, since this was around Super Bowl time they were football. That is a good observation though they should have something that says featured stories or something.Thanks!
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