Etude House

http://www.etudehouse.com/gate.html

This is the website of a Korean cosmetic product (Etude House). The above image is the welcome page of Etude House. Although we may not stay at this page for so long, but the designer do cares about the graphic here such as, the buttons were well designed while the illustration of the shop was included.  You can choose one of the languages among Korean, Japanese, English and Chinese to enter the pages. Unfortunately,  the pages for English and Chinese are still under construction. So what we can choose at this moment is either Japanese or Korean.

This is the homepage of Etude House. The menu bar is placed on the top in a horzontial column with pink background. When mouse hover on a specific category in this column, a big rectangular box will pop out with different items that are related to that specific category and the style of the button will change to another style as well. The most updated issues will be the largest and was placed on the toppest area and it will change to another new issue after few seconds automatically.  Followed by, the issues that are least important will be placed below them. Five columns are used for the most update issues and two columns are for the least important issues and one column is also used for some  specific products.

Here is the page after I clicked on the first category. Different categories were placed on the left hand side with light pink background. When mouse hover it, the color of the words will change from black to white and with pink border. Also, a small box will pop out with specific items. The best items will be placed on the toppest area. Items for you to purchase will be placed below the “best items”. Although you may not understand Korean, but with the help of the photos, it makes the whole process more easy and relax. Prices were placed under every items, it kinds of help you to measure the amount of money you needed and the amount of money that you may spend on these products. One interesting thing for this website is, you can search the products by colors. After the decision that you made, items with specific colors will show up. As a result, shorter period of time can be spent on finding a product.

Becky Wu

Digital Page and Web Graphics