Hulu.com is not only a very popular website, but also very well designed. Hulu has just about all of the characteristics of a strong website design. The navigation tabs at the top make it very simple to surf through the site. The colors and fonts are bright and vivid and the contrast and colors compliment each other well. Everything is very easy to read. For those who don't know, hulu is a video streaming website where you can watch video clips of your favorite television shows and even full episodes. The videos are very organized on the front page with sections such as most popular and "hulu's pick" the organizational aspect is very strong on the hulu site and everything can be easily accessed right from the homepage. Everything fallows an organized alignment and the images and fonts flow nicely. There is good repetition as well.
Poor website:
Mapquest
Mapquest is a very cluttered website. It is not very user friendly and the homepage layout is quite confusing. Mapquest is not a horrible website, but considering the popularity of the site, the design is very lacking. The contrast is subpar as are the colors in general. There is really no sense of navigation, the maps and directions tabs bring you to more or less the same page. Considering proximity, most of the links and information are very close together which can get confusing. There is not much depth to the website, which in some cases can be good but in this case it seems that the website is just lacking. Again Mapquest is not a terribly designed website but compared to other popular websites it seems that Mapquest could use some improvement
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