OUGD504 RESPONDING TO FEEDBACK

I began responding to the feedback I received from my peer crit. The first and most important feature I had to add was a feature that aloud the user to understand they could click on a certain image and translate the fact it would take them somewhere separate. I managed to do this by using two techniques. One of them was to use a rollover button. This means when you hover over an image with the cursor it changes into a clicking vector, indicating that there is a link behind that click. The next feature was to have either something light up or the image to fade. This idea was given to me by my fellow peer, captain Alice. This idea came from the fact the website was meant to be quite approachable and not take itself too seriously whilst maintaining a certain professionalism about it. I animated a feature in Adobe AferEffects that made the image fade away slightly into the background colour and a small rationale would appear, teasing the audience to click on the link into the rest of the article/interview. I feel like this has given the site a bit more character as before it seemed a little bit two dimensional. 

A few other tiny features that would increase the UX were actually very impactful pieces of UI that I would have never initially considered. The first one was adding a small home button in the bottom right corner. I made it nice and small but not too small to not see, just small enough to not distract you throughout the entire experience. This would take you back to the home screen from where ever you were in the site, just incase you got lost in the depths instead of scrolling up manually. Another feature was having a slightly opaque scroll bar on the right hand side. This seems like a bit of a no brainer but I had previously forgotten to put it in. This indicates to the audience how far down the page they are and also the fact that scrolling is available as it was pointed out to me before, that it was slightly confusing being introduced with just a singular image and title and no other function.

A few final features I inputted were a search a bar, granting access to filter down what the audience was viewing. They could search for a specific institution or course title to try and find something specific to their taste instead of viewing everything the site had to offer. This is done very smoothly with a slight transition upwards to a search page with just type. I have also added a little progress bar within the interviews so you can see exactly how far you are through it and how long you have left. This is all done to achieve the maximum UX with a hassle free UI. Finally I added actual students work to the site instead of place holder images so it almost seems likes its a real site coming together with real headers, titles and students content.