Aesthetics:
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy, a species of value theory or axiology, which is the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is closely associated with the philosophy of art. (ha! what a mouthful!!). Obviously that wasn't my own words.
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is a branch of philosophy, a species of value theory or axiology, which is the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste. Aesthetics is closely associated with the philosophy of art. (ha! what a mouthful!!). Obviously that wasn't my own words.
My own words: Aesthetics is how pleasing something is to look at, and how well the object/image/website flows.
OMG REALLY BAD AESTHETICS
OMG REALLY BAD AESTHETICS
Bad Aesthetics: TV.com
(http://www.tv.com/)
The basic structure and layout out TV.com is neat and clean. However, the TV.com website appears cluttered and "busy", as shown on the screen shot of the main page. As TV.com needs to show information on the shows it reviews, it needs to represent them using images and this drastically increases the clutter on the main page. I believe the website could improve the Aesthetics if the website didn't contain so many tv shows on the main page, and instead lead the user to more pages containing the different tv show categories.
In other notes: The website functions properly and easy to navigate. The text size and placement is good. The use of many pictures (and video clips) means that users with slow internet speeds would take longer to browse TV.com.
Good Aesthetics: Seraph Inn
(http://www.seraph-inn.com/index.html)
The header and sidebar stay anchored when navigating the Seraph Inn website. The site doesn't use any real contrasting colours either, it instead uses different shades of similar colours. This doesn't affect the legibility of the website though. The character on the top left of the picture fades into the sidebar menu. The menu remains in the sidebar when browsing other pages for easy of navigation. As the website mainly uses text it would use less time loading and browsing than TV.com.
The header and sidebar stay anchored when navigating the Seraph Inn website. The site doesn't use any real contrasting colours either, it instead uses different shades of similar colours. This doesn't affect the legibility of the website though. The character on the top left of the picture fades into the sidebar menu. The menu remains in the sidebar when browsing other pages for easy of navigation. As the website mainly uses text it would use less time loading and browsing than TV.com.
