Overview:

 

 

As part of our Informational Architecture class I got the task to create a prototype for Ling's Cars. Ling's Cars website has nothing going well for it, there is too much going on with the site, it is like the creator had a limited amount of time to create it, and thought that using a lot of graphical images will make the site better-but clearly it didn’t. This website has no structure at all since everything is scattered all over the place like a messy room. The website is about leasing cars for a cheap price and this website has so much pop-ups I can’t even look at it because it is hurting my eyes. The navigation element is very bad since the main headings are very small and the site has over 100 icons to click from, some of the links were in forms of graffiti and paintbrush style, so you can see from this site, the creator didn’t really care about the finished product. The only way you can be familiar with this site is if you sit down and master whom I guess will take a very long time. The usability factor on this site is not there since you have to look around the site to find what you want and that is very hard since everything is everywhere. The Graphic design is the only thing existent on this site, there are pictures galore and other than that the site is very bland and is terrible. Taking all of these aspects into consideration, I feel that the creator produced this site on purpose just to say that “I can make a website”, but I retrospective they can’t.

 

 

The prototype I made is simple and clear. You can navigate it easily since it’s familiar to other efficient websites. Each page is designed thinking of when people visit site to view content it will provide worthwhile content since that is one of the most fundamental issues that website owners need to address. Also the website has the same colors through out all the pages.