Research-

Melissa, our client, sent me these three websites and what she liked/disliked about each.

"It is clean, easy to read. White space without having too much white space"


Good-

• clean
• simple
• navigation has drop downs
• search bar
• interactive flash
• makes user aware of where they are in the site
• form pages shows exactly what the user needs to fill out by highlighting in red

Bad-

• A lot of links on homepage
• a little unorganized

"I like the interactiveness of the site."

Good-

• The flash piece is very interactive by communicating with the user
• Has a specific button for "do you have a claim" for users that are confused with all the other content on the site

Bad-

• The flast piece is almost too interactive with the moving clouds. It draws in the eye
• Only link to homepage is the logo
• inconsistant

"Horrible. Too dark, too chunky."

Good-

• nav bar at top
• contact information is easy to locate
• lets you know when you're going to a page by lighting up the navigation bar.

Bad-

• distorted images
• clunky
• inconsistant
• pages are hard to locate and some cannot be reached without going through other pages again
• doesn't tell user where they are in the page
• unprofessional feel
• not a good color scheme

Interview 1-
1. Name: Dara Greene
2. Age: 38
3. School Experience: B.A. English & Anthropology (URI), J.D.(Ohio State) & LL.M in Taxation (Capital)
4. How often do you use the internet? Daily
5. How often do you use the internet work purposes? Daily
6. How do you use the internet for work purposes? I'll use the internet to research a business or industry that I'm not familiar with in order to better understand the facts of a case. I use CCH and Lexis-Nexis to review case law, regulations and statutes.
7. What is your favorite website? Yahoo
8. When going to a website are you more like to go straight to the search engine or navigate throughout the site on your own? Navigate the site on my own.

Interview 2-
1. Susan Smith
2. 50
3. Attorney--Undergraduate Degree: Bachelor of Science, Graduate Degree: Juris Doctor
4. Daily--multiple times
5. Daily--multiple times
6. Researching legal case law, researching statutory law, researching taxpayer information, researching companies (what they make, what they do, how they operate), researching how things/equipment work, researching background information, etc.
7. Wikipedia--use it to get basic background information about topics that I am unfamiliar with so that I can then conduct more comprehensive research.
8. I like to go to the site map. I hate the clutter of most websites and hate the endless drilling down. I have found the search engines to be useless much of the time. They usually do not pull the results I want. The site map lets me cut through the junk and get to the meat.

Interview 3-
1. Name: Keven Kuhns
2. Age: 47
3. School Experience: BS in Business Logistics from Penn State and a JD from the University of Dayton School of Law. 4. How often do you use the internet? Every day.
5. How often do you use the internet to attract business? Never.
6. How do you use internet to attract business? N/A
7. What is your favorite website? Neatorama.com.
8. When going to a website are you more likely to go straight to the search engine or navigate throughout the site on your own? Search Engine.

Summary of research-
All of the lawyers use the internet daily and mainly for research. They don't use the internet to do their work but to aid them. When it comes to the way they research, they all vary. Some like to go straight to the search engine but others like to search themselves. One web solution for this site is to use some sort of interactive visual content that will communicate with the user. Another web solution is to have the site rank high in google since the client's primary users are other lawyers and it can be concluded that they use the internet mainly for research.