Perform an in-depth evaluation of the following websites: Website 1: http://jbhifi.com.au Website 2: https://www.amazon.com

By Amir Akhtar
The purpose of the report is to provide a critical evaluation of the nominated websites and to support your observations and recommendation convincingly. Your report should

1) Provide an overview and description of the nominated websites.

2) Identify and elaborate the main features of the websites, drawing on your first impression of the websites, accessibility, navigation, homepage pretest, etc. (Refer to Powell,T 2002. Web Design: The Complete Reference, 2nd Ed, Chapter 5, http://webdesignref.com/chapters/ch05.htm)

3) Compare and contrast the two websites against the HCI design principles and usability principles.

4) Based on your critique and analysis in items (1) to (3) above, provide a recommendation on how the websites should be improved. Conversely, if further improvement is not required, then provide the reasons why that this is the case.

 PLEASE NOTE:

  • Except for item (4) of the above, all assertions relating to user interface design principles (e.g. statements like ‘blue text on red background is a poor colour combination’) must be supported by references or critical observation. You can cite additional scholarly references other than the textbook. (Note: Do not use Wikipedia as a source of reference).
  • Figures Tables and or diagrams can be added as needed.  



INTRODUCTION:
Here we have two interactive website which is so much active and famous in the new world era. The purpose of the report to make strict evolution about this website as good software developer you should know the basic principle of how to evaluate a website. After evaluating a website, you have good skill of develop or upgrade a website as customer or user need. One more thing you know about evolution of the website you have so much to learn from new technology and new world experiments. If a developer know that, how to evaluate the website, he will have the knowledge about how broken link and broken error should be avoided. The main objective of this report that generally developer and beginners gives importance only upon they know, they don’t know what is the latest trend, what exactly user want in these days.

Description Of The Nominated Website:
So here we have two website which is somewhat similar in many way but I can give different overview for both the website.
The first website we have:
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/
JB HI-FI is an Australian /New Zealand website which sells consumer goods. This website’s specialty is it sells CD/DVD, video Games, Home Appliances. So this is purely electronic goods website. It is so interactive and full of color. It is so famous website in the online users. This website is so old so that according to the era and based on the  new user interactivity. It was upgrading by the time.
The second website we have:
https://www.amazon.com/
This is called simply Amazon. This website based on the Washington and now an Electronic E-commerce website. This is so big website and retailer website. So this website had separate website by its name for the country like India, UK, US, Ireland, France, Canada, Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Australia, Brazil, Japan, China, and Mexico. Basically in old world this website is sells only books online. Amazon was so famous among the user because of the, it is first website which sells books online. After that it includes DVD/CD, Blu rays,  video downloads/streaming,  downloads/streaming, software, video games, electronics, MP3 downloads/streaming, audiobook.
Identify and elaborate the main features of the websites:
  • Both the website now somewhat similar.
  • Both the website has responsive designing.
  • Interactive wise JB HI-WI website is so interactive and colorful that attract youngster.
  • Both website have search edit text to search within the website.
  • Both the website has categories of their product.
  • JB HI-FI website has a sleeping line category which shows its easy accessibility for attract more users which is new to internet or online shopping.
  • Amazon website has drop down listing of the categories of their product which is somewhat new to the trend but somewhere difficult to click over them and confuse to the new users.
  • Both the website emphasis to purchase electronic goods and home appliances.
  • JB HI-FI website strictly based on electronic good e –commerce website.
  • But according to the new trend now, all things come online, so Amazon was upgraded itself. Now it sells cloths, toys, sports, home appliances, Food and grocery etc apart from electronic goods.
My first impression on the websites:
·         A good designer faces number of challenges to develop a website which easy to interact and attract the number of hits of the user.
·         This website’s main motive to increase the purchase of their good to attract people.
·         Both the website is good to attract the users.
·         Users are in ease and quickly find the product in both the website but JB HI-FI website has clear resolution presentation of the main or famous product on the main page with the price and ratings.
·         But if we saw another perceptive Amazon have big categorization of the important or frequently purchased categories which is also attract people.
Accessibility:
·         So according to my reviews both the website passes the identity pretest which is most important part of the evolution.
·         Both the website has clearly communicate the goal of the website which is to search and purchase the goods.
·         Accessibility of the website is keen and clear. User has clear idea by seeing the website that where they want to go and what point /link / page gives them what.
Navigation Pretest:
·         The main and most telling evolution technique is navigation pretest which tells which is clickable area.
·         When I observe both the website, which I find was clickable area is genuinely is a clickable area.
·         So both the website passes the navigation pretest finely.
Compare and contrast the two websites against the HCI design Principles and usability principles:
According to the HCI principle there are there online user which is novice, expert and intermittent users. Novice users like new users which have first attempt of the website, expert is the old users, and intermittent users are not so new or not so old. Both the website is useful to expert and intermittent users but somehow tough to the novice users because both have wide categories, choose product, payment gateway. Payment gateway is more difficult to user to use their internet banking.
According to the usability principle Amazon has better felling because it shows the product basis on the user rating and the home page gives you the product listing on the basis of your old history so it can help Novice user to find product easily.
Recommendation:
·         According to my assumption I have less recommendation for Amazon website. It is already upgraded according to the new trends and technology.
·         But I have more recommendation for the website JB HI-FI, it has more contrasting color theme, by first impression it attract users by appealing colors ,but when users are used to with the website ,it is more prone to eyes and user get bored with that.
·         Now there are many website in the market on the same E-commerce theme so users have more choices to visit website ,so the new technology of design like CSS and java script may be imposed to the website, JB HI-FI website is lack in these new emerged design technology.


Conclusion:
So that is all about both the nominated website, according to my report functionality wise both the website are same but by the design interaction Amazon have good marks. According to the human interaction principle Amazon has more user and more famous. Keeping up with the human computational principle both website has same mark.

References:
Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction By Jenny Preece, ‎Helen Sharp, ‎Yvonne Rogers 
Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions By Bill Scott
Website evaluation of www.nissan.de and www.honda.de
Evaluating Websites and Web Services: Interdisciplinary Perspectives By Yannacopoulos, Denis
www.Amazon.in
https://www.jbhifi.com.au/
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