Design Analysis 2

The site I looked at was for the band tool it was an art site from the band at.
http://toolband.com/

The Home Page is mostly black except for the whirling colours behind the Tool name which once clicked gives you the option to go to different areas of the site. The use of black space works well for the style of music the band makes.

To me the site seems to be like a dark journey through a dream like status with nothing really making much sense at the best of times the information is always in the centre of the black screen and doesn't have much link between one page to the next, the music is also very strange with crazy sound effects on the site

Once you click into the Dissectional area of the site the home page for this area has no information on screen other than four or five different coloured symbols so from there the user must choose a symbol to click onto only going by colour and shape creating a really interesting idea of the user searching for the information they want almost like some type of game, instead of the pictures and information straight in front of them.



One area once chosen is like a listening post to hear beats by the drummer but you have to search for the music by strolling over a strange figure/face.When the user rolls his pointer across the area and finds where a beat is yellow ripples move out from the area where the sound is showing the user the area on the screen where the hidden sound is.

To me the site seems like both a mirror and a window I would say it more leans towards the mirror style not so much because of the interaction on the site but because it seems so much like a dream like state that it doesn't even feel like a web site and seems more more like a dream or some type of journey that you explore.


In the main art gallery the names of the work float around on the page and move towards and back from the screen with no real direction to them.

There is no previews of the artwork so the user must click on every single name to under stand the meaning behind the word making the user explore the website much to understand the information. This type of web design could be handy to make users explore company's web sites more.