Deviant Art

Deviant art is a website where you can post your own pictures online for other people to see and you can browse other peoples pictures for if you need inspiration on what type of picture you wish to draw. The target audience is on an average age of around 12+ both male and female.

           

People who are trying to become artists for different style and contemporary art usually occupy it. 

The website layout design is a lime green background with a black font which is easy on the eyes, also the layout of the webpage makes it easier to see the shortcuts and hot bar on top of the page.

Overall there are many strengths and weaknesses. But the strengths are the fact that it’s a nice community, who are helpful and there is plenty of ideas from other people’s drawings to help you start ideas of your own drawings. But the weaknesses of the website it is really buggy and can keep crashing and not loading the pictures properly which is quite annoying but apart from that everything is good about the site.

 Amazon

Amazon is a online shopping website just like other websites like eBay and gum tree etc. Amazon uses search engines on the website taskbar which defines searches for what you want specifically or items you wish to search for similar to the one you searched for. It also has a section called “Items you may also like.” Where they take information on items you have bought previously to find items you may also like. Also a section where it says “other users that bought this item also like.” The target audience can be anything from younger people with parent’s permissions and card/PayPal details.  Or it could be even an adult searching for any item.

This is the Front page of the amazon website where you can see the search bar and some sub-searches such as the “what other customers are looking at right now.” There really isn’t any weaknesses of this website unless you do not know how to use the internet.

Working with interactive media products

The interactive media product I am working with is Internet webpage such as YouTube.

YouTube is a website which is video based with videos on everything you really need. These videos can be anything from video game walkthroughs to how to apply make-up. It is for people who do not fully understand how to use equipment, who seek entertainment from famous You Tubers  (people who have channels that people can subscribe to which notifies the people who have subscribed when the you tuber has uploaded a video.)

There isn’t a specific age range, gender orientation, demographic lifestyle of people that use YouTube. It can be anything from 10-year-old children to 80-year-old pensioners.

There isn’t much text on YouTube. The only text on it is to describe what the videos are with short bios, titles and bios of the you tubers channel. The layout is very good and basic. It has you’re recommended videos and categories down the left side of the screen. There is also a search bar on the top middle of the screen to directly search for what you want to watch or searches close to it.

As you can see by the image there is a search bar on top and recommended videos down the side and description of the video on the bottom of the video.

Overall strengths of YouTube is that it is quite basic and easy to use. Also the fact that there is many video walkthroughs and helpful videos to whatever you need help with.

 The weaknesses of YouTube is mainly based in the comment section where you will most likely get harassed by all the people known as “trolls” of the Internet who will insult you for everything that you may do wrong.