Friday, November 13, 2009

Lupton Grid: Hulu

Hulu is a very user friendly website. Thousands of people use the website daily to watch some of their favorite shows. Hulu, after getting some user feedback, changed their search results page to make it easier to find a show you are searching for. They changed from a 2 column layout to a 4 column layout, which makes it easier and more efficient when trying to find a video. The grid, to me, looks to be a 12 column grid, with plenty of gutter space for an easy view. Also, Hulu uses plenty of margin space, creating a lot of white space on the site. This makes you focus your attention more on the content, centered on the page.
Hulu's homepage also makes use of this same grid system. The homepage also has a four column set up, with a lot of white space. This makes it so much easier to navigate your way around the site. If they did not have big gutter space and large margins, the site's content would be too bunched together and would make it harder to find the content you were searching for.

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