Monday, February 23, 2015

Homework 2/24

Instagram is an extremely popular website used by millions of people daily.  This site is used for photo sharing across the globe, giving people around the world immediate access to pictures posted from anywhere.  Instagram is available every minute of the day, and since users are located globally, pictures are being posted constantly. 
Even though the site consists basically only of pictures, the speed is quite good.  Sometimes it can take a while for pictures to load, but for the most part as long as one has a decent Internet connection the loading speed for the pictures is instantaneous.
            The visual logic of Instagram is very good. It is obvious at first glance what the site contains.  Since it is a photo sharing website, photos are the point of the website, and it keeps it simple enough with keeping them in a clear line format.
 It is a fairly simple site, displaying photos with captions and hyper-linked hashtags to find more pictures.  It is easy to navigate and find whatever one would need within the site.  The best layering that the site does is in the hashtags.  Users use common hashtag their photos for other people to find and “like”. 

The news aspect of Instagram is good because the site is constantly updated with new information through the pictures that are being posted.  This can be found through “following” users who present news, or through sponsored users who pop up in one’s news feed.  Overall, Instagram does very well based on the demands of the audience. 

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