Okay this may sound nerdy, but I figured I should write about something I'm interested in, so I'd love to hear what you guys think. I keep up with a lot of design websites (I'm a Graphic Design major), and I was reading an article about how to effectively communicate through a website (http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/02/03/clear-and-effective-communication-in-web-design/). It's fascinating how much time we spend on the internet. I especially - being a design major - almost always have my laptop with me, and am unaccustomed to not having internet at fingers touch. Therefore, if we spend so much time browsing pages on the internet, the effective communication of web pages is incredibly important. If you were in classes all day with people who spoke a different language, or worse yet spoke very bad English, you would quickly become exhausted with trying to understand what's going on.
So in thinking about the internet, I would get sick of looking if everything I was looking at was terribly communicated. My question is, what makes a web page communicate well? Are images important, or is content important? Is it always a personal choice? YouTube is one of the most visited sites online right now - is it any coincidence that it is extremely clean and easy to understand?
It's hard for me to see pages online and not pick them apart from the eyes of a designer. So I'm curious what all of the science majors, business majors, etc. think. Does it even really matter?
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