Review of Western Australian Museum Website

Running head: HUMAN AND COMPUTER INTERACTION
HUMAN AND COMPUTER INTERACTION
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Overview..........................................................................................................................................3
Main features:..................................................................................................................................4
Positive Aspects:..............................................................................................................................5
Negative Aspects.............................................................................................................................7
User review......................................................................................................................................9
Recommendation...........................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Reference.......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
The western Australian Museum website is the official page for six sites which are
located around the Western Australia. This website has all most every information associated
with the six museums including the location, history and ticket booking. The mission of this
website is to enthuse publics to share and explore their environment, identity and contribute and
experience to the diversity and creativity of the museums. The western Australian Museum
website not only just showcase the museum utilities and exhibitions information. It also provide
other relevant information about the reconciliation action plan, research department, museum
excursions and online education. All the museums are undertaken by the WA government as
well as the http://museum.wa.gov.au/. This website is pretty neat and responsive and also
provide a lot of information like up-coming events and openings. The main purpose of the
website is to offer a delicate experience for the vibrant and excellent museum service which is
used and valued by all Western Australians and appreciated and visited by the world. They also
provide some optimal value to the peoples which they categorized as accountable, inspirational,
enterprise and sustainable. They believe, the website provide benefits to all people of Western
Australia and identified that they are accountable to them and are custodians of their collection.
The Western Australian Museum is a constitutional authority within the Department of Local
Government. Under the section 36 of the museum act, the directors have recognized the
following branches of the Western Australian Museum.
 Museum of Geraldton.
 Museum of the Goldfields.
 Museum of the great Southern.
 Western Australia Museum-Perth.
 WA Shipwrecks museum.
 WA Maritime museum.

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Overview
The Interface of the website is pretty impressive and well-designed. The menu bar consist
of relevant hyperlinks such as Home, What’s new, visit and many more. Every section also has
their sub section with appropriate contents. The whole interface is simple and responsive to the
window resolution. The contents are organized in particular section and match with graphics as
well. The head part of the website is optimized with the WAW and Government of Australia
logo including the menu bar and search section. The WAM logo looks pretty astonishing along
with the navigation bar. The search box also located on the right of the logo and connect,
accessibility and site map section above it. The overall color combination is pretty eye-catching
and effective as a standard a website. The color combination of black, pitch black and white
looks impressive along with logos.
Body: In the body part, the carousel is well designed. Most of the websites today comes with one
or more carousel nowadays. The carousel design is pretty standard and showcase most of the
upcoming events information and news. They provides navigation buttons to check out next
banners. However, the auto slider utility is not available which is inconvenient compare to other
standard websites (Card 2015). Other body parts are also designed standardly with proper
heading and sub heading. They also added relevant image and video as necessary. This website
also have subscription options at below where user can log in through email, twitter, Facebook,
Instagram and Pinterest. The Footer is as usual consist of the copy right details (Booth 2014).
This section also provide some easy access bar including home, privacy and log in options.