Interactive interface design research.

http://www.rendercreative.com/

The navigation on this website is large and clear, it is also the same on each page giving consistency to the website and making it easy to navigate around the website. The website is centered, possibly using CSS, this means that the look of the website is consistent in any size of browser. The home page isn't cluttered with too much information but is kept simple and clean making it pleasing to interact with. It also makes it look professional giving a good first impression of the company and its work.

The ideas that I want to include in my own design is a nice simple and clear navigation system that is consistent throughout my site. This will make it easy for my users to interact with and use my interface.

http://moodle.westnotts.ac.uk/

Moodle is an open source communication system mainly aimed at the educational environment. The design and composition is poor.  The page is cluttered and finding where the information you want can be confusing. The package is designed to be simple and easy to use for staff who may not have much computing knowledge but the over simplification on this level leads to a poor file structure for end user.
I will put much more into the designing of my site, making it look attractive for users and also make sure that my pages are not cluttered and that navigation is not complex and confusing.

http://www.marzsolt.com/

This website looks really nice, the design is simple but effective. I like the simple navigation that also animates, making it interesting to interact with. Although this is not consistent throughout the flash site this does not cause any issues with navigation, as you load each of the pages you get a simple menu button at the top which reloads the navigator. This happens swiftly with an animation, keeping the viewers interest.

Content loads in a small box in the centre of the screen and plays. This fits in with the composition of the website and is also large enough for content to be viewed.

My main criticism of the website is the moving background, whilst this isn't distracting from the content and is a nice design feature it made me feel ill through motion sickness. I usually only experience this whilst reading in the car and is probably due to concentrating on something with other movement around. The designer should be more aware of how this could effect his users, I had to look away from the screen and take the screen grabs quickly to stop the motion sickness continuing. This would mean that visitors would leave the site.

The idea of using space within a design, stopping it from becoming cluttered is something that I will consider in my design. The small navigation and content works well.