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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: wson2 on June 07, 2008, 03:25:38 am

Title: Travel photography - Critiques welcome
Post by: wson2 on June 07, 2008, 03:25:38 am

It is my first post here. Most photos were taken by Contax 645 - Feedbacks and Critiques welcome!

http://wilson.fr/ (http://wilson.fr/)

Cheers.

Title: Travel photography - Critiques welcome
Post by: wolfnowl on June 07, 2008, 02:28:54 pm

Some nice work there... could do w/o the landing page; it's an unnecessary step.  And navigation isn't very intuitive, although it didn't take very long to figure out.

Mike.

Title: Travel photography - Critiques welcome
Post by: wson2 on June 08, 2008, 12:22:00 am

Thanks Mike for your comments. I intended to make the navigation experience simple and unique ... but I probably need to work harder to make it more "user-friendly" as well

Cheers.

Title: Travel photography - Critiques welcome
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on June 08, 2008, 05:25:11 am

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Thanks Mike for your comments. I intended to make the navigation experience simple and unique ... but I probably need to work harder to make it more "user-friendly" as well

Cheers.
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"Simple" is good, but "unique" is very unlikely to be "user-friendly"! Why force a visitor to your site to interact with it in a way which is different from the methods he uses for other sites? Why distract his attention from your photographs by making him learn a new way of working?

There was a pseudo-commandment in currency when I used to write software in C. I forget the exact text, but it enjoined programmers to use a particular style, "for thy creativity is better used in solving problems than in creating beautiful new impediments to understanding". I used to ignore it, of course, because when I was 21 I knew better. I don't think my view would be the same now.

Jeremy