Blurit.com is one of the most organized and well designed sites I’ve seen in a while. The main focus of the site revolves around the content, and the area where you’d submit your questions is smack at the top of the homepage; it can’t be missed. Let’s review it a bit further, shall we?
Brand Identity/Typography
Blurtit’s logo has a straightforward design that beautifully compliments the idea behind the site’s purpose. It seems to be using just about three different types of fonts, and from the looks of it, two of them are modified. The blue box encasing the word “it” is the pivotal point within the logo design that backs the service offered by this website.
Elements of Design
The site has all of its elements separated into sections. The main content on the site is the unanswered questions, they take up just about 35% of the space on the home page. The design seems to have been put together using a grid. The navigation menu is extremely accessible and gives you a brief description of the content you’re going to see on every corresponding page. When you scroll over the latest questions, it automatically gives you the option to answer it or report it.
Entering and posting your questions to the community is by far one of the easiest features to work with on the site. The area where you type your questions is designed to look like as though you’re saying something.
Once you enter your question and you press the ‘go’ button your question is posted in an instant. You’re then taken to another page where it gives you a few options like registering, be interested in other similar questions, or search your corresponding category.
Overview
Overall, the Blurit.com is a nicely designed site with effective and organized use of whitespace. In my opinion its design rivals and is easier to navigate through when compared to Yahoo Answers (which operates under similar concepts). The Yahoo Answers pages seem too cluttered, and one of the most important elements of the site (where you search for questions) lacks visibility. Yahoo Answers has a large display of featured questions on the front page unlike Blurtit, however, Blurtit likes to circulate recently asked questions in more than one area of the site.
