Week 12

Before class, I had finished interviewing two other users for the 5 Second Test method. I thought their answers were both pretty interesting. Marcus, who I had asked first, said that the website looked "off" to him and that it reminded him of a pyramid scheme which was an interesting take. He stated that everything looked vague and lacked any kind of description. The images and overall feel of the website in conjunction with the vagueness gave him that impression, making him feel odd about it.

The second person I had asked, Hannah, thought that they were some kind of organization that hosted events for their community. During the five second test, she focused almost exclusively on the slideshow. In the slideshow, they show images of their mixers, luncheons, and festivals. 

In class I had performed the Competitive Analysis method. This was another method that I did not originally intend to perform, but I had decided to replace the original card sorting method with. I thought this very valuable, as it allowed me to look at a website that hosts similar content and see how they handle their organization. The website I had decided to look at was Entrepreneur. This website also offers a huge amount of information such as selling books, seminars and other things. I exclusively paid attention to the organization and navigation though. To start, It was much more spacious and clear than Sun Prairie. A majority of their information was neatly laid out on their homepage and accurately categorize, minimizing the need for drop-down menus and jumping from page to page.