Blog Week 4 Post 2:


I visit the Alphalete website pretty frequently just to browse and keep up with their new product. This website is very effect because firstly the homepage has extremely good quality photos with a moving slideshow of different photos. It is modern with a sleek aesthetic design which makes it so engaging. The specific principles of good design Alphalete uses is contrast, repetition, alignment, and ease of use. The contrast on this website is well displayed with the white text and a dark background, also a smaller text with big pictures allows the user to focus on the product they're trying to sell. The repetition is displayed with the homepage link and logo placed on a bar at the top of every page you visit in the website. The alignment is well displayed with no open spaced and instead high quality photos between the website links/text. Finally the ease of use is perfectly put to use with a bar that has all of the links including the homepage following your every click. 
The overall pleasing modern looking website makes me come back mainly also due to the ease of use. I always know where to go and how to navigate where I want to go in the website. I honestly don't think anything can be improved. I would switch up the theme or contrast of text because although it's not too bright of a background it could get boring if kept the same over years.


This website is effective not only due to the endless categories but also because it has a large cloud sourced forum. These members help you confirm if it's a real sale or even if there's a better deal out there. The specific principles of good design they include concept, repetition, and ease of use. The concept of this website is the foundation of why it's so effective. This website is basically almost a social platform except for finding deals for any item you can imagine. People including the moderators of the website post deals and people can also comment if they purchased it or found a cheaper price somewhere else. Repetition is very well displayed in this website because there are so many links with pictures but there's always the top navigation bar that makes it easier to search for all your items without getting lost or confused. The ease of use on this website is well shown with their great navigation bar. Although there's a lot of text and drop down menus there's also a search bar in case you don't feel like finding the category.
The main reason why I come back is because the concept is so great. You can always find insanely cheap deals on items you would normally be spending more on. Sometimes you wait a day and there are 100 more new items similar to the one you were searching for yesterday. The only thing I would improve on this website is not having the front page featured deals. Although this is better for marketing to help people notice what others are buying more of, however it is a little overwhelming for the users that first visit the website because there's so many pictures and text linking to another page.