Option 2: Navigation through digital information space.
This is a website of an art portfolio. The first object that attracts the user’s attention when they enter the website is this 3-dimensional man who stares at the user. Afterwards, the user navigates through the website by scrolling downwards and looks at the three menu options that are currently provided: “Experiments,” “About Me,” and “Portfolio,” although the “Experiments” menu is currently under construction. Once the user wants to view one art of the menu, they expand the menu which creates a miniature page for that section. First the user will see the same 3-dimensional man spin around, loading the page and afterwards, the user is taken to the page. Each section provides some sort of moving detail which continues to attract the user’s attention. For example, in the “About Me” menu, the 3-dimensional man once again appears but the user can rotate him 360 degrees with these small dots that represents some information about him. When the user clicks on it, a small description will appear informing the user. If the user wants to view more, they either scroll up or down to the next menu. A navigational problem that the designer may encounter is the need to continue to scroll down the website in order to view more information. This website seems to be more vertical than horizontal and it’s not a great design for the present technological period because many monitors today are more horizontal than vertical. Since the pages do not load on top of each other, like some other flash websites, users can quickly become bored with this website. They could easily forget something they looked at at the top after reaching the bottom. However, the designer confronted this challenge by allowing users to expand and collapse the menus, so that whatever is important to the user can be shown and what’s not important doesn’t need to be shown. With the option to collapse, the website will look less “vertical.”
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