Event Inspiration

For this assignment, I was asked to analyze 3 music festival websites and look at their themes for ticketing and commerce. This is because I will be designing an event site this week. The analysis in this blog post will help me make decisions on what I can do and not do for my site.

Rock For People Festival.

The Rock For Festival website has quite a creative design but is also simple and minimalistic. The colors black, red, grey and white are pretty good for the website as it complements the brand and the logo on the site.

One problem that I do have with the colors though is when you go to the ticket page. The light grey writings on the darker grey isn’t so clear and can be hard for people with low vision to see.

The way the site looks visually is very aesthetically pleasing. I like the way the images are dispersed throughout the site especially the line up. When I was researching on various festivals, I saw that they provided their whole line up information in a single image. I feel that they should have done it just like Rock For People as they created individual pages for each performing group with information of who they are and their music.

When it comes to the ticket and package pages, I feel that information was repeated. The two pages basically have the same set of information but represented different visually. It will be better for them to take out ticket page and keep the package page because of how more pleasing it is and easier to read and understand.

Lastly, for the desktop view, the gallery is interesting as they give interactive links to see images and views from the different years.

The mobile view is similar to the desktop view. The line up comes ups in 1’s and not 4’s like desktop view. The package page however doesn’t show any information but the image header and footer. This may be an error and the festival needs to check it out.

Lollapalooza

I like the lollapalooza site because of the vibrancy of color. They are beautiful and the artwork at the bottom is quite interesting. I believe the colors are of high contrast enough for people with color blindness and low vision to see.

One thing that I love about the site is the navigation. When you click on the tickets and lineup page, a yellow drop down appears that allows click around the page easily. Also if you look to the footer, you will see that they provide a dropdown menu that allows you to play the songs by the lineups. This is something similar to Rock for People because they allow users to see what music the performers have even though their lineup is presented in image form.

Moreover, I feel that the graphic is too far down from where the information ends. I will advice them to take it up because as a user, I feel that it's a lot of scrolling.

For the mobile site, I think i prefer it to the desktop view. Again I think the did an amazing job with the navigation but I feel that they didn’t do well by not adding the graphic.

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Mad Cool

The last site that I will be looking at is Mad Cool. The site isn’t as dynamic as the the other site but is still aesthetically pleasing. The colors like the other site have high contrast for accessibility features. The lineup page like Rock For People gives a link to the performers information page which is a good feature for users.

One thing that I will say needs changing is the position of the logo. It’s too far to the side and kinds discards it from being the focus. Instead the menu titles are put above at the center when in fact they should be below.

For the mobile view, a box appears on the image slider that I feel shouldn’t be there. The information on the footer need to be arranged better and maybe smaller. Other than that I feel the mobile site is alright.

Accessibility

I tested Chromevox on each site and I saw that they all had a good standing with the extension. Not to say that it was perfect but it was pretty impressive.

Most of the information were able to be read and the arrangement allows the user to understand with Chromevox easily because of its left to right reading.

I will say that the site with the better accessibility when it comes to ChromeVox is Rock for people. I say this because the other sites had raw explanations of the images or some of the information said wasn’t visible thus confusion. But Rock for people gave descriptions for the images or not at all.

Although, when it comes to color, I will say that Lollapalooza did a better job.