It begins when we were asked to overview a website.
At first, I'm kind of confused to choose which website I should look through so that I can just get this task done faster, but then... The Harvest's website came in mind.
As I'm already connected to the website, this kind of picture below is shown.
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| Homepage of The Harvest's website |
As we can see, the interface of its homepage is attracting enough to be seen by the visitors.
The menus, above the sliding pictures, are ordered in quite simple way yet not confusing with an obvious title for each of them. The visitor may not be having a hard time thinking, "which button I should click, if I wanna look for this-cake or that-cake" because the title already represents the category of what they have in their store. For example, if you want to look for some kind of cake, you can just click on Cakes & Specials on the menu bar. Then, since each of the menus is kind of a drop down menu, so whenever you click on it, there're gonna be shown the sub-menu of it.
Now, try to point the cursor to any clickable text or icon. Let's take the Cakes & Specials menu as an example. When you point on that, the color will be automatically changing. It's quite a help for the visitors since they dont have to think like "Is this one where I am about to click?" Etcetera. Such kind of question.
Unlike the clickable text on the menu bar, The Harvest label at the head of the site, seems not clickable at the first time we see it, or you can say that it just looks like a normal header. This matter may cause a moment to think for the visitors. The Harvest label here is actually a link that will bring the visitors back to the homepage, but it's a pity since it's not made obviously.
It's actually a simple matter, but without guidance, you may feel the confusion of where you are. That's going to be hard to get back to a certain point since you cant trace back the path. It's what The Harvest's site's lacking of. It doesn't have what most people call as breadcrumb navigation.
If we take a look at The Harvest's website as a whole, we can tell that this site's concept is elegance with black as its background color and gold as its font color. These two colors make the cake-and-other-picture looks even more stunning. I must say that it's a good thing because -as what I believe- most visitors will only have their eyes set on the cake.
These following below are my friend's blogs I commented on:
Ilham Aulia Fahmy
Eylien Desy Novita
Irfan Zidny
Utari Ambarwati
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| Drop-down menu of Cakes and Specials menu |
Now, try to point the cursor to any clickable text or icon. Let's take the Cakes & Specials menu as an example. When you point on that, the color will be automatically changing. It's quite a help for the visitors since they dont have to think like "Is this one where I am about to click?" Etcetera. Such kind of question.
Unlike the clickable text on the menu bar, The Harvest label at the head of the site, seems not clickable at the first time we see it, or you can say that it just looks like a normal header. This matter may cause a moment to think for the visitors. The Harvest label here is actually a link that will bring the visitors back to the homepage, but it's a pity since it's not made obviously.
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| The Harvest's label |
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| Whole cake page |
These following below are my friend's blogs I commented on:
Ilham Aulia Fahmy
Eylien Desy Novita
Irfan Zidny
Utari Ambarwati
Review yang sangat menarik, dan saya juga sependapat dengan penulis, beberapa waktu lalu saya juga pernah mengunjungi situs www.harvestcake.com dan first impression saya ketika itu adalah kemewahan yang secara spontan terlihat dari UI dengan komposisi warna gelap dan gold, ditambah dengan berbagai katalog cake yang sangat menarik baik dari segi tampilan gambar maupun rasa yang diperlihatkan pada keterangan teks mengenai komposisi dari cake yang di tampilkan. Tidak hanya sampai disitu ketika saya mencoba untuk melakukan order secara online ternyata step yang diberikan relatif mudah dan sangat baik dalam pelayanan ordernya.
ReplyDeletesar, ini mah aku mau makan kue nya aja lah klo gitu .. beliin bisa kali yaa :) hahhaa
ReplyDeletebtw,.. komen atas ane serius amat yakk wkwk.
secara overall memang sudah sesuai dengan user experience, penempatan tombol, penyesuaian warna dan tata letak sudah pas. keanya user juga bakal betah berlama lama disini, mengingat gambarnya juga menggiurkan :)
beli satu sar, kuenya tlg antar ke si "dia" ya , hahha
mampir2 juga yaa
http://tugasimkilham.blogspot.com
salah ni baca bginian malemmalem *eluselusperut
ReplyDeletesetuju ama tampilan tjoyy bikin ngiler asli dah wkwk
sasuga.. as expected of a website review from someone who was read the assigned book :P
ReplyDeletea very detailed review indeed. I never would've doubted the harvest header would cause confusion to the homepage since I thought it was a given at any site for their header to link back to their home pages, but alas not every visitor is a frequent web visitor so it does cause a confusion for people that accessed the web for the first time :D
a very, very good job (y)
Woah setuju dengan pendapat sarah. Penempatan interface nya tidak menyulitkan user. Boleh juga satu kue dikirim ke si "dia" sar :)
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ReplyDeleteSar, the first thing came on my mind is...........hungreeeeeeeeh LOL (skip) btw, i agree with you about the review but technically when i tried to open the link, it couldn't. Idk whats wrong so that i couldn't make my own review about the site. The design's as elegant as its name. Buy me sometimes lah LOL :p
ReplyDeletemaneh sarua wae kalawan fariz,nulis blog pake basa alien.. aing jadi bingung komentarna kumaha
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