So, once again, I was bored and decided to look at a bunch of websites of places that I have shopped at, been to, or passed by. Today, I have chosen SOBEYS! (http://www.sobeys.com)
I enjoyed the first page I came across when I put in the URL. It’s the Region selection page, so you can pick what province you are from and has some pretty nice graphics. After choosing your province, it navigates you to the home page of the website.
However, once getting here I didn’t really know what to do…it’s really boxy and cluttered and busy!
I mean, obviously all the primary and secondary navigation is there, but to me everything looks so EVERYWHERE! I didn’t know where to look first, what I should be looking at first. I guessed the bigger image on the left hand side?? It just seems so cluttered, I don’t really like it.
I think the green is a pretty color though…and I like the recipe page! I enjoy food; who doesn’t!? They have a cool navigation bar on the side where you can search for specific recipes based on the amount of time you have, what kind of food mood you’re in, the occasion, etc.
So I guess it’s kind of half and half than…I like some of the aspects of the website. I think they’re neat ideas, but it could definitely do without the clutteredness of it. However, I can’t really think of another solution that could fix it without adding more and more links or pages.
Jazz
Sometimes web sites can be frustrating because they have a lot of clutter, but one still enjoys the content that the site deals with. Some sort of balance needs to be reached, and that is where designers are supposed to come in!
Comment by marlenebakkelund — November 25, 2009 @ 11:10 pm |
Some grocery websites are just so hard to navigate, it’s probably because they have so much information that they have to put on their site. But there must be a more efficient way to sort through it all. Maybe we can design something way more organized
Comment by nandinir — December 8, 2009 @ 1:13 am |