Thursday 5 May 2011

Step 9 - Reevalute Design

I feel my website as a finished product works well in meeting the brieg in creating an entertaining and informative childrens website. The site adopts a fixed colour scheme which would be appealing to the audience and the theme of healthy eating is consistent throughout.

On reflection, I feel that perhaps parts of my website could have been more interactive, this was also a view shared in the user testing. The quiz page on the website was the main feature and I feel that this section of the site would be the most popular amongst the chosen target audience. However, the other pages on the site where mainly text based and therefore could lose the interest of the target audience as young children would not want to be just reading information off the screen. Simple features such as animation on the navigation and banner were helpful in entertaining the audience and keeping their focus and interest throughout. 

Based on my user testing, I found that most aspects of my website were succesful. I had to carefully consider text size and colour scheme and these turned out to be the most appraised elements of my site in the user testing. 

The following table was completed by a friend of mine to gain his views on the website. For the rest of the user testing please follow the link at the top.


Name:
Alex
Content clarity:
(please bold your choice)
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Font size:
(please bold your choice)
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Usability:
(please bold your choice)
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Design:
(please bold your choice)
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Navigation:
(please bold your choice)
1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5
Other comments:
(please keep comments to a maximum of one paragraph)
I liked the game part of the website but I think the audience would lose interest after that because the following pages only contained text.