Category: Class Work

What is the interactive about?

 The Marine Ecosystem page is an interactive website that educates the audience on the many different collaborative parties in the marine ecosystem. This includes marine life, climate inputs and man-made interference.

Who is it designed for?

 Given the simplicity of the interface, the website is designed for anybody to access and easily toggle through. With the friendly graphics, it could be suggested towards educating a particular age group; children.

What knowledge does it assume of the target audience?

The website is very straight forward, instructing the audience to click the graphics/text bubbles for further information. There is no other prompts from the interface.

Describe the type of user interactions.

The interface is very straight-forward. Minimal textual layout and minimal bells and whistles help create the easy to read, easy to access website. With every aquatic animal you click, a pop up window opens further interactive media; videos and text to read by scrolling through.

What Improvements would you suggest?

This website could be better designed given it’s target audience is children. The pop up windows could be more colourful and match the sea theme, the “X” button to close the window can be difficult to make out, and the windows often glitch when in use, showing a transparent background and making the text impossible to read. The creators could have made use of animation in this design as well, adding movement to the fish and ships. The full screen mode also didn’t work