The webpage for the Broadway musical “Hamilton” is almost as innovative and intriguing as the musical itself. Once you open the site, you’re greeted with the musical’s logo – a mustard yellow background, the silhouette of a star (four prongs of a basic star and a man pointing upward to symbolize the top and fifth…
2: The Meaning Behind Buzzfeed’s Design
The website I probably visit the most often is Buzzfeed. I used to be on it 24/7 but I have decided to cut down, you can only take so many quizzes in a day. The point of Buzzfeed is to create a community to share news, great memes, celebrity gossip, and so on. The first…
2: Design Choices behind Instagram
Like others for their second blog post, I wanted to focus on a social media site, the rhetoric and rhetorical situation behind it, and analyze it. Instagram is “…a mobile, desktop, and Internet-based photo-sharingapplication and service that allows users to share pictures and videos either publicly, or privately to pre-approved followers.” (Wikipedia). While you can…
2: Epic Reads Design Choices
Epic Reads is a digital community created by HarperCollins that caters to Young Adult readers. The site promotes HarperCollins’ YA publications through blog posts, polls and quizzes, online forums, and giveaways. The very top of the site, which remains the same no matter what content you are looking at, includes the Epic Reads logo, which…
2: The Design Choices of Spotify
One of my most-used apps is Spotify, a major music streaming service. I mostly use Spotify to listen to music on my way to work, so I’m most active on the app version of Spotify. The Spotify app is pretty simplistic. Different music categories such…
2: YouTube’s Homepage
YouTube is the main way most people view online video. Given that, the design of the homepage does not do a good job of reflecting that. The biggest thing on the page is an advertisement for a channel on the site. It is centered at the top so it is the first thing a viewer…