Website HCI Analysis

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Website HCI Analysis
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Rebel Sport Website...................................................................................................................2
NickSali Website........................................................................................................................4
HCI Analysis..............................................................................................................................6
Recommendations......................................................................................................................9
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Human Computer Interaction or HCI is a concept that helps to analyze the design
patterns and factors of a website or other Human-computer interaction mediums. This
assesses the interface accessibility features that are involved in-between the user and the
computer (Preece, Rogers and Sharp 2015). This report will carefully study the interface
features of two websites, list the interactive features that they deliver, provide HCI based
criticisms for both and finally make recommendations that might in the improvement process
of the website’s user interface.
Rebel Sport Website
The following URL: https://www.rebelsport.com.au leads to the online business portal
or the e-commerce website that Rebel have to sell their sportswear products, all around
Australia. Rebel Sports is one of the finest online shopping website for all kinds of
sportswear that range from t-shirts, pull-overs, lowers and shoes. The website has tie-ups with
quite a handsome number of big names in the sportswear industry.
The web interface is filled with numerous accessibility features that may assist the
users or the website visitors to browse efficiently and make their decisions in a hassle-free
manner. It can be surely stated as a user friendly website as the options that are provided are
clear and robust. The users will be colorfully greeted by the website through its homepage.
The homepage, being the most important component of a website helps to depict the overall
features of the website. Rebel sports has gone forward to fill their home page with almost
every information necessary for a new visitor to be enlightened with before browsing the
website. Their tie-ups with some of the most famous sportswear brands has been tactfully
depicted in the homepage by placing the logos and web links of all those companies. This

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will help the website visitors to be more involved and entrust positive beliefs on the website
and the business.
The offer sections are brightly represented in the home page. This helps to attract
users towards browsing the website and sends out a clear message about the products that
they are selling or discounting. Attractive offer promotion banners are put up in the website.
The website has also made wise use of carousels to represent various important sections and
provided efficient functionalities within them. This is indeed an innovation that they have
implemented. The product thumbnails, information/review and purchase optionality are
gracefully placed in pre-determined dynamic grids to avoid collision or confusion.
Offer carousel
The website has a set of navigation options available for its users. The primary
navigation menu can be accessed in two different forms from the header menu. These are
directly visible on the header and can in-turn also be available in a sidebar menu. This
navigation menu takes the users to any product category page within the website that they
wish to browse. The offer banners also act as navigator elements and land the viewers to
specific product pages. The footer navigation links allow the user to navigate the necessary