Megan Cox
Yiwen Yin
Art Gallery
As a preface, it was difficult for me to critique Yiwen properly since she had no final website built for class. With that being said, in attempts to give her at least a little bit of feedback for her concept, I reviewed her creative brief/wireframes to give her guidance on how she should approach her website. Below are 3 things I thought had great potential for her website design:
1. Overall Website Concept: For her final website, Yiwen wants to create a place where students can easily learn about art history, as well as different cultures. Her goal is to create an organized site that groups art by style as well as by country so that students can view it easily. This includes having a "search" column where viewers can navigate between countries easily on the hompage. Overall her website concept is interesting and I would've loved to see an actual website with some structure to explore.
2. Organization: Since another one of her goals was to have the art orgainzed on her website, her wireframes show great attention to organization and structure. All of her wireframe pages are very neat and show appropriate blocking of content within her website. Showing other art under the currently selected art peice that is being viewed is a great way to provide more access instead of having a back arrow to go back to the top of the page. Her search page also is more aesthetically pleasing and structured in a unique way while still showing all the appropriate information about a piece of art.
3. Potential: Since there is no typography, color palette, clickable website, etc. it was difficult to critique her on the other aspects of her website since they were absent. However, I think that her website has great potential for success and approval. I look foward to seeing her finished product during her presentation.
1. Lack of Presentable Work: The first and most critical critique for improvement was that she needed to have a physical website in the stages of being built, at least with clickable links and pages to view. Not having a website in progress made it difficult for me to give her valuable feedback on aspects like typography, structure, content, color palette, etc. Although her wireframes are super solid and have great potential, I was slightly disappointed that I couldn't help her more with her design. However, she understood that this was her responsibility and I helped her as much as I could by reviewing her wireframes.
2. Huge Scope: While her goal is to collect as much art as possible and organize it with helpful information for students to view, since she had no progress on her website at the time of the critique I was worried that she wouldn't have enough time to do what she wanted. I suggested that she narrow her scope down so that she wouldn't be too overwhelmed with the amount of linking, collecting, researching, etc. I recommened that she pick a max of 3 countries to research, and then within each of those choose 3 artists and pick 2 or 3 pieces to research and include in website. Hopefully this suggestion will help her better manage the amount of work outside of the coding she will have to do.
3. Don't Worry About Difficult Elements: One aspect of her site that was included in her wireframes was a place to rate her website. She expressed that even though she included it in her initial wireframe, she wasn't sure how to build it. While this could be built with a form, I suggested that she shouldn't focus too much on this aspect of the website and instead focus more on the search aspect of her website. Minimizing the amount of different features on her site should hopefully help her manage her work a little more so that she can focus on the main goal of organizing artwork.