Can User Experience Be Beautiful?

When users visit your website, they first read the content available.

Then look for the other things to familiarize themselves with your

website. This involves looking for navigation.

In this article, we will analyze navigation in portfolio websites. A good

portfolio is the combination of creativity and result driven development

techniques. They offer an attractive interface which is ultimately lead to

an enjoyable user experience. We have explored through a brief analysis

of these portfolio websites which includes a blend of usability and user –

experience guidelines. You will notice that UX is designed more than

simply designing attractive user interface (UI).Let’s start now –

Dawid Wadach

Wow! What a Mine-sweeping impression it was! The absence of

navigation is the first noticeable thing. When I was randomly and rapidly

uncovering with my mouse then suddenly I noticed that the hidden

parts contained the portfolio of websites. Hovering over the white area

uncovers some of their projects. All over the website makes a great use

of HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript to provide a smooth and pleasant user

experience. The design is minimalistic and clean

Harry Vorsteher

Well, it’s not a good idea, using flash animation explaining to you how to

use the navigation.

The website greets its visitors with an animation explaining how to

operate the navigation.

What I felt the user interface and the photos present in this website are

truly nice and inspiring, as is the capability of the Flash developer the

website is truly one to admire.

Justin Lerner

The designer includes a blend of great web design practices and good

coding techniques to provide an aesthetically pleasing website.

Shelton Fleming

Navigation looks Consistent and intuitive, large sans-serif fonts

contrasting with these background, similar imagery, and ample use of

white space makes navigating through this website an enjoyable

experience.

Chris Wang

The navigation is subtle. It is easy to switch between the projects, you

can see number of screenshots from the same project.

Jessica Caldwell

The website offers plenty of white space—something that generally is

good for usability.

You can also explore the following navigation design inspirations –

McCormack & Morrison

Moka

From the above explanation it’s clear that one needs to focus one thing:

enabling its users to achieve their objectives.

Hopefully the article will help you to design and develop a pleasant

looking website that will inevitably lead to a healthy return on its

investment. Please feel free to provide your opinion in the comment

section.

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