Web analysis - Pixar

As I could possibly be redesigning or keeping to the general theme of Pixar I thought that this would be a good place to start my research. The reason why I picked Pixar as a starting point was because like I have probably said in many of my other blogs I will be applying for internships and Pixar was one of the first sites I looked at, liked and wanted to apply for.

What does it look like?


When the site is first opened you are greeted to a very slick design with minimal imagery. There is alot of white space but having this has already drawn the users eyes towards the main content. All of the pages have kept to the same layout and from what I can see they have tried to mainly focus on the imagery (animation) which is the main hub of the company which I think is a good idea because when users open the website that is the content that they want to see. From when I look at the site I get the impression that they are trying to give out the feeling of a pixar film itself, from the whole layout.
A very small problem that I could point out is that even though I personally like the white open space some people may not like it as much and see it more as a waste of space.


How easy is it to use?


From entering the website you can clearly see where to find the main content that users need i.e. careers, feature films etc what I like is that they have put their most recent work (wall-e) as the main image also giving it a seperate link to the movie website. They have inputted a bit of Flash content to add a bit of animation making it interesting.
The buttons have been clearly labeled however what I came to realise is that even it looks like its all simple to navigate however when I clicked onto the 'company info' I greeted to many different links and when you click on each link you are faced with a lot of information, so overall when you research more into the site its not so clean.

How clearly is the content organised?


Overall I found the content was organised in a successful way. What I noticed is that they have actually arranged the buttons from shall I say from the end process right back to the start. For example the first button is labelled 'Home' but it is followed by 'feature film' to 'short features' and so on until it get to the information on the artists. I never thought of doing it like that but when you look at it it makes good sense arranging it that way.


From looking at this site I think that I am going to take some of these ideas to work with my ideas but from looking at the site I feel that I would like to go do a more artist approach i.e. sketches.