WEBSITE INTERFACE DESIGN ANALYSIS 2022

Running head: WEBSITE INTERFACE DESIGN ANALYSIS
Website interface Design analysis
Name of the Student
Name of the University
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Website Structure.............................................................................................................................2
Analysis of the Interface..................................................................................................................2
Screen dumps of good and bad interface Design.............................................................................5
Recommendation.............................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
In this project the website of the Southern Cross University is analyzed in terms of the
good interface design principles and usability. For a good interface it is important to make sure
that all the text and pictures used on the pages are properly readable through the use of proper
contrast (Oulasvirta and Abowd 2016). In order to improve the readability, it is important to use
different color, space between the texts and images as well as the size of the texts. Along with
this, other features are also analyzed for the selected website of Southern Cross University
(https://www.scu.edu.au/).
Website Structure
While analyzing the website, we tried more than twelve web pages and navigated
between the different pages of the website. In our analysis it is found that the website utilizes
appropriate URLs throughout the website. This is considered as one of the best practices that
help the users as well as the search engine ranking improvement for the website. While
analyzing the interface it is found that there is proper use of typography which crucial to clearly
connect the users through deliver the intent and purpose of the interface to users (Qiu 2019). In
order to communicate the idea or information the text is used. This is the reason for which the
effective interface design always requires good typography on the pages. It in turn helps in
improving overall user experience while using the application or web page. In other words, it can
be stated that the optimized typography on the webpages consequently improves UI (user
interface).
Analysis of the Interface
Some of the good and bad interface design principles includes the following;

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Good contrast among the visual elements and texts on the pages;
In this way it is possible to make better contrast and high readability of the content on
the page. In addition to that the proper use of typography also helps in highlighting the
important information with the different font sizes such as headings.
For the selected site of www.scu.edu.au every page had well defined headings. Use of
these headings are also considered as excellent as they are important in search engines
optimization and summarize content of the related pages faster. With properly defined headings
it aids in accessibility.
There are certain images that does not have defined height and width for the images on
the pages (Qiu 2019). Even though the height and width attributes are considered as optional
while designing the frontend, but these tags are strongly recommended in order to help different
browsers in order arrange the different images on the web pages in a faster way. Due to this the
page load time is very high which is 4.65 seconds compared to standard 3 seconds load time.