| > "But it works" No it does not. It fails on the following points: 1. Readability: Both headings and excertp text have the same colour. This creates uncertainty about what is what. Same applies to the various other page elements like the tag cloud. 2. Readability: Contrast ratios. This is for many a subjective matter, but displays are very capable of displaying black text on a white background. If you want to decrease glare, you should make the text lighter (#333 is popular) but not the background darker. Tis decreases readability on many devices, especially with LCD displays. 3. Readability: White space and liune height. On the left, there's a overly generous amount of white space. This is not bad, but it fails horribly when in the right column the white space is not considered at all. This gives the page a messy, chaotic look. 4. Readbility: CAPITALS. This has already been discussed above, but I'd like to recap. Captials are considered shouting in online written text. Capitals decrease readability by making all characters similar in size, therefor creating less visual anchors for the reader to attach to. This leads to losing the thread of the sentence. This, by the way, is also why there are special titling and/or all-capital fonts included in typefaces. 5. Readability: Dots in titles. That's not how you write 'READ. POSTS'. 6. Visual consistency: Page elements seem to have no, or very little relationship to each other. Normally this is conveyed through colour, contrast, size and shape. Many parts of this page fail in at least 3 of these, severly degrading the usability of the site as an interactive application. 7. Usability: There is almost no visual feedback for the interactivity besides the hand-cursor. This is bad for usability. 8. Usability: Aggresive social media sahring pop-up. The very sensitive pop-up menu makes using the other links hard. My conclusion must be that this page was designed by either a programmer or a print designer. I lean towards programmer because of the colour scheme. So, no, it does not 'work'. It's quite possibly the worst newslisting I've seen, and I thought Reddit was bad. |