First week of the new year started out with some great lessons. First the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh College of Business has a very clean and easy to scan design. I wasn’t met with too many challenges but the one odd thing that stuck with me was the high prominence of an “admissions podcast” which ended up just being a single audio message. You could tell this was a non-web department decision since it didn’t add any value to the experience and a podcast is meant to be a stream of periodic updates.

The second site, Otterbein College didn’t far well at all. Initially the user is hit with a big red button that steals the attention from the rest of the page. Beyond that the navigation issues were countless. When I clicked to get more information about a program I was taken to the department homepage where I had to re-learn the new navigation to get to the program information all over again. This is not something a perspective student would have the patience for.

This Week’s Reviews

Site	Visual	Information	Code	Overall
Otterbein College – Episode #136	58	50	45	(153/300) 51% F-
University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh College of Business – Episode #135	89	87	70	(246/300) 82% B-

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