OUGD504: Design For Web Studio Session

For this task we were asked to bring in 5 examples of websites with a variety of layouts and types of navigation. We were then asked to divide these into grids in order to visualise a clear structure of how they had been created.

As a group we then discussed both the common and uncommon features/functions of website navigation:

Common:

• scroll bar
• hyperlinks
• map
• click arrow
• read more' button
• side bar
• type colour change
• back to the top'
• page numbers
• play button
• thumbnails for images

Uncommon:

• scroll bar on right
• navigation bar at bottom out of site
• linear navigation 
• landing page

We found it more difficult to define the uncommon features as these were less familiar to us.

In addition, Lorraine gave us a demonstration on the difficulties that people may face if a website uses a linear navigation. This is due to them having trouble finding a specific page without having to browse for ages. It also