Good design or not?

Image from xanga.com

Different blogs have different style and design layout. Today I try to use the xanga.com as a example to analyze their design layout.

The xanga.com is using Gutenberg diagram to design the layout. “A Gutenberg diagram can be used to describe the movement of the eyes across the page.” Lidwell, Holden, & Butler, 2003, as cited in Singh, RI, p.2. From the upper left corner of the page to the lower right follow the reader’s natural “eyes gravity”. This approach is according the basic eye movement from primary optical area to the terminal area. The blog are use a Sans-serif font which helps the reader read more easily. Moreover, this blog is mainly focus on using the photographic to attract people attention. Less word is used to explain the post.

This is a good design or not? Different people will have different opinions, but more photographic and less word seems to be a trend in coming online communication system.

Reference

Singh, RI, 2011, ‘the New Paragraph More Readable than the Traditional Paragraph?’, University of Alberta, p2.