This bad design is the NBS honor society website. I choose this site because the class TA brought in folders for this organization which I thought looked terrible, forcing me to ask the question what their website must look like.
Line
The lines are very grid like, cold with no creativity. The site seems more like a spreadsheet than a website.
Balance
The site is balance to itself, but not the page, as the link size is expanded it doesn’t adjust to the changes. The main way it tries to balance is by use of a colored left side border to offset the centered text that runs to the right.
Contrast
Contrast is the main area that the site really fails. While the lettering in the text’s main bodies is overly stark, the links running down the left side border have so little contrast with the border itself that they become almost non-functioning, not to mention that it is blue on blue, a color that older people would have trouble distinguishing.
Shape
There are almost no shapes on the site, the geometric lines and texts are the entire substance.
Information
As to be expected of the spreadsheet like layout, the page does convey the necessary information. Although, what is needed to be conveyed, is occasionally not done so in the best possible way. The header that was at the top is redundant mentioning that it is a website. Directly under the header the mission statement is for some reason put before the description of the company.
Hierarchy
The website is mostly well sectioned into hierarchies, but again, the lack of contrast between the links and border is noticeable as it makes the links feel as if they are even less than a side note.
Harmony/Unity
One thing this site does do is hold a feel of unity. The same three colors permeate the page, and the same dry font is used throughout, except on the header where the group’s slogan “the future of electronic media…. since 1943” sits almost as an oxymoron. The strangeness of the NHS slogan is compounded by the overly scrolling and the antique looking font.
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