Portfolio Site Design

Yesterday we learned about the 10 principals of web design and today we were to find two portfolio websites; one that we thought was the best and one we thought was the worst. Here's my choices.

Emotions by Mike

I choose this portfolio site as the best because, it's simple. It leaves nothing to be questioned, everything you need to see if properly labeled and easy to see, and within his portfolio he's labelled the artwork with what the piece is, either a site, logo, icon or character design, it makes everything simple and easy to find. Another nice thing about his portfolio is that the designs are opened up in a new window so you don't have to backspace or try and find the tab the design was opened up in.

His use of negative space is really nice, everything is spaced evenly and nicely off-centered so it's visually appealing. The sunburst under the legs gives the dark-ish green a nice gradient  and adds a bit of pop to the page. Also, the fact it's all above the fold makes it easier for the user to use.

Freshet

 I choose this site as the worst because, though they use negative space efficiently and it's visually appealing, it's confusing. There's no navigation, it's all just content and it's confusing and leads you to believe there's more to do but in truth there isn't.