Party Poker Graphics
As with most other things, the way a company, building or website organizes the visual layout of its property is likely to attract or repel a lot of initial potential customers. The reason for this is due to human nature, and the all important first impression. If your office is run-down and looks completely unprofessional, do you really think you’ll get the client?
I didn’t think so.
We can apply this visual barometer to the general layout of a website, since websites are nothing but online real estate, illustrated very well by the fact that you find them online by visiting their “web address.”
Taking this one step forward, we can critique the layout of a localized service, where software downloaded onto local machines is used as a means to access a server for information query and interaction.
Party Poker is an example of one of these localized services
As soon as you open the software up, you’ll probably get the general impression of poker and cards even before you’ve done anything. The reason for this is that the colour scheme for the whole website is a shade of green very commonly used for the tops of card tables. It’s a very good choice for a piece of poker software as right off the bat it gives the user a sense of authenticity – the real deal, so to speak.
Once you’ve logged in, you’ll be at the main screen, where you have all the games listed under their specific categories. All the navigation into games is done from this screen and graphically, there’s nothing very special about the layout here. In fact, due to large amount of information available combined with the placement of ads and links to other services offered by the company that owns Party Poker, the layout here can actually be detrimental to a user’s overall experience with the software.
Once you get into a game, you come across a visual layout of the table that’s clean, but not overly spectacular. The table has the same green colour that underlies most of the site, with each player represented by a graphical player sitting in a seat at that table. The 3-dimensional perspective is a bit off, and when a large amount of chips have been bet, the stack looks more like it’s horizontally floating in the air rather than vertically above the table. The scales are somewhat inaccurate as well, with chips looking huge in comparison to the graphical humans playing the game.
In conclusion, the overall graphics for the software are adequate,
but certainly not award-worthy. Party Poker currently enjoys the largest day-to-day
player volume, and quite justifiably may feel that they don’t need to
improve their graphics, most of which have been around since the site’s
inception years ago. After all, layout concerns are most important with new
customers, not existing ones.
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