Design on the web is making a site that isn't boring but isn't too busy. As web designers we are limited to certain parameters and good design on the web is using those parameters to your advantage. Simplicity is an important thing to consider when designing. As stated in an article I read, too much or too busy of color can drain out/ ruin your design.
Design and usability are not the same thing. Usability refers to the ease of access of the site. Site maps are good for commercial type websites. Wal-Mart, for example, has so many products and other things on their website a site map is almost required. I agree with Derek Powazek when he said that your links should never take you to the same page you are currently on. I personally get really frustrated when a link takes me to the current loaded page. On the Yfactorstudio site I got so frustrated trying to find a gallery or SOMETHING besides that ONE link of questions. Finally, I found one to her contact information, but if we weren't doing it for a project I would have immediately been annoyed and gone elsewhere.
Accessibility is important to users. It should also be important to designers. In the video about Bruce Sexton suing Target for lack of vital tools for people with disabilities on their website, I thought that it was warranted. If a website as big as Target's doesn't have those kinds of things for those with disabilities how do they expect those users will respond? If I was using tools such as the ones mentioned and all it read back to me was HTML jibberish I would be pretty annoyed. I feel like its a bit disrespectful in a sense. I would feel almost like Target didn't care enough to make it easily usable for those types of tools.
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