Thursday, December 13, 2012

Reverse Wireframing - Recreate website & reasoning

Below is a recreated wireframe of the Massachusetts Poetry Festival home page.


Out of all three websites this one needed the most help. There are pictures that are broken on the home screen and little to no hierarchy. The page content is all vertical followed by comment.  Some of the comments are not even in english. With all the comment vertical there is no visual interest. Uses appreciate “surprise and delight” and in this form there is none. Also, with the massive amount of text that is closely knit its not easy for the viewers to “scan” the page for important information and key words. So, after reading the homepage I came up with a header followed by a navbar, a main features area, three sub sub content areas, and a footer.

The reason I did this is to break up the information. When reading the homepage there was a lot of text that could be broken up into three categories, upcoming events, admission, and a comments/discussion area. These three categories will act as the sub area which will navigate the viewer to a subpage to learn more about upcoming events, admission, or what people have or are saying about past and present poem festivals.  Breaking down the main body of content increasing scalability and “surprise and delight” factor.

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