Further Website Research

How to "captivate" our audience. Show "energy" and create a "memorable" experience.

http://herbalbises.jp/index.html

I like how this website uses a simple mouse scroll-over to make the little butterflies move. It is a unique way to "captivate" the audience without over-doing it. Our demographics range from all ages so we have to keep it simple yet engaging. Simple things as small movement will keep the audience interested. For our own website, maybe we can incorporate Yayoi Kusama's element of small lights. Having a main image that is already lit up by many lights, but having mini lights that dances and moves around the image when we hover our mouse over the image. The dancing light movements can also relate to the energy of the environment while also making it a memorable experience as it is quite unique. There is also a generous amount of white space which allows the viewer to breathe.

http://www.smartcookie-design.co.uk

I like how this parallax website has a smooth transition. I find that a lot of parallax website tends to be quite slow and laggy which makes it frustrating for the viewer. This parallax is more toned down, with no images popping up or crazy images that floats around the whole page. We should take this into consideration: how much content we are putting on the page and maintaining a smooth transition for easy navigation. I also enjoy the interaction that we first have when we come in contact with the website. It is also great that they used colour dividers as a finding system.

Some things to think about when we are drawing our wireframes.

-Rebecca