Other Critique - SWEt Tea

Phase 2

What did they do well?

Their pages with the grids of images look really nice, especially the effects that are triggered when hovering over the images. In addition, their simple black background color scheme works well, as it draws attention to the images featured on their site.

The images that they scraped from Flickr and other sources look stunning as well.

What did we learn from their api / website?

As of now, when you click on restaurants, hotels, or attractions on our website, it lists all the images fetched from our API in a very large grid.

Their website differs from ours in that they are not loading all their API results at once. Instead, they utilize pagination, so that only a smaller subset of the results are displayed at once. In this way, users with a slower Internet connection will not have to wait a long time for all the images to load.

We will likely use their example to add pagination to our site so that only a subset of the results are loaded at once.

What can they do better?

They have some styling issues they need to work on. For instance, there were images and text not centered properly, and some of their images got stretched or squished so the layout looks distorted. However, their site looks very eye-catching and appealing.

They also have some funky data that they should probably fix manually. For instance, there is an image on their website titled "20170823_104237 (crop)."

What puzzles us about their api / website?

Sometimes it's hard to tell where a photo was taken. For instance, when you hover over an image on their Photos page, you can see the title of the image as well as the photographer's name, but sometimes the photo's location is not displayed. For instance, there was a picture of a ram that was titled "Symmetrical Ram," but the photo's location was nowhere to be found.