Website Evaluations
landsearch.com
The site employs a high level of Contrast with a harmonious color scheme, ensuring that text and graphics stand out vividly against the background. Repetition is skillfully utilized, maintaining a consistent design language across all pages for a cohesive and professional appearance. Alignment is precise, providing an organized and easily navigable layout that guides users effortlessly through the content.
- Contrast: High contrast between text and background.
- Repetition: Consistent design elements throughout the site.
- Alignment: Neat and organized layout with clear alignment.
- Proximity: Related elements are close to each other.
The good website effectively utilizes contrast, repetition, alignment, and proximity, resulting in a cohesive and user-friendly design.
Vedderprice.com
Take a look at Vedder Price. The homepage is dominated by an unattractive image and a completely generic "Welcome to Vedder Price" message. The one positive is the large and prominently placed navigation bar that guides visitors to individual attorneys and practice areas. Vedderprice presents a video loop that is beyond distracting and bordering on headache-inducing. Plus, the video looks like it belongs on a travel site, not a law firm's site. I guess the message is that the firm has international capabilities, but the message is delivered very weakly. The video also blurs out the navigation.
- Contrast: Low/weird contrast that varies across the site, making text hard to read.
- Repetition: Inconsistent design elements across pages.
- Alignment: Poorly aligned elements, causing visual confusion.
- Proximity: Unrelated elements are too close or too far apart, also a lot of sizing issues.
The bad website lacks effective use of CRAP principles, resulting in a confusing and unappealing design.