Source: http://www.romainbriaux.fr/
This website features the work of Romain Briaux, a french student in his 4th year at HTEC, specializing in web design. The site work as an online portfolio. The layout of the site is very easy to navigate through, the organisation of the information is interesting and quirky.
The landing page (above) for the website is simple, but shows a video loop playing in the background. The site immediately focuses on its main use with very little text on this page but in bold “WELCOME TO MY NEW PORTFOLIO” is seen so the audience gets an immediate idea of what the site is all about.
Viewing the designers work is very interesting in regards to layout and organisation (see image below). The site uses animated tiles once the mouse hovers over it, perhaps using “onmouseover” in their code. Once one of the tiles is clicked the interface then slides over to the topic selected.
The buttons are well labelled and located, these are for information such as about, my work, contact, and various social media links.
Conclusion:
Overall I like the sites theme, layout and functions. It has most of the characteristics for a well designed website, my issue though is in regards to load times. The target audience for this site would be those interested in web design, potential business and for the own designers use as a portfolio. In saying this the target audience’s internet connections must be relatively fast, and good in connection, this was the designers focus. For a wider audience though, this would not work so well as the site has so many functions applied to the main navigation that it may create a difference experience for another user (eg. slow speeds, site timing out).
Doug Keating 