Caitlin Faw's Thesis Project!

Before I talk about Baxley, I just wanted to say I really enjoyed “Every Last Drop,” the interactive website about water saving! I mostly appreciated the graphics, the parallax scrolling, and the almost video game-like quality of the site. In terms of Baxley’s User Interface Model, there are many different structural, behavioral, and presentational aspects at play.

Conceptual model: The website, from first glance, appears to be some sort of animated informational interactive. We are first introduced to a sleeping figure in bed. Perhaps the user knows he or she will soon scroll through this cartoon’s day in the life.

Task flow: The user “completes specific operations” by simply scrolling through the whole narrative. The sites only instructions? “Scroll Down!” and “Keep Scrolling!”

Organizational model: The user scrolls vertically through the story.

Viewing and navigation: There is not much variety in terms of viewing and navigation. The user can really only scroll down through the story.

Editing and manipulation: Similar to viewing and navigation, there is not much room for the user to “edit” or “manipulate,” except for at the very end when the viewer has the option to watch a video, or go to Twitter or the Facebook page.

User assistance: This site does not really “inform users of the application’s activity and status,” but this sort of “user assistance” is not really necessary with a site like this.

Layout: The layout is simple and dependent on graphics/animation.

Style: The style is very specific. The animated, cartoon style could potentially appeal to kids who might waste water and like video games.

Text: The text is easy to read, and there’s not a lot of it, which is useful. The website gives the user just the right amount of statistics in terms of text information.