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  Aesthetic and Minimalist Design ESPN has a pretty convoluted design that gives you a lot to focus on. Match between system and the real world ESPN uses a magnifying glass to symbolize the search bar Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors ESPN informs you when you input an incorrect password. Consistency and Standards ESPN navbar remains at the top of the even when scrolling down. User Control and Freedom Users can easily return to the home page by clicking the logo in the top, left corner.

  Aesthetic and Minimalist Design YouTube has a minimalist design that makes you focus on the search bar and video suggestions. Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors YouTube Informs you when you input an incorrect password. User Control and Freedom Users can easily return to the home page by clicking the logo or the home in the top, left corner. Consistency and Standards YouTube uses a magnifying glass to symbolize the search bar Help and documentation YouTube provides documentation for YouTube users and creators.

  User control and freedom Users can easily return to the home page by clicking the logo in the top, left corner. Consistency and standards Google uses a magnifying glass to symbolize the search bar. Flexibility and efficiency of use Google allows you to customize how you search. Aesthetic and minimalist design Google has a minimalist design that makes you focus on the search bar. Help and documentation Google provides documentation on how to search.

  Visibility of system status When you add something to your cart, Amazon informs you that an item has been added to your cart as well as shows you everything currently inside of your cart. Match between system and the real world Amazon uses an image of a shopping cart from the real world to represent the digital shopping cart. User control and freedom Amazon allows the user to return to the home page by clicking the logo that is always present in the top left corner. While it isn't started verbatim that this is the home button, it is common practice for the website logos to also be the home button.  Consistency and standards The top of Amazon which consists of the logo, shipping location, search bar, login, and shopping cart, stays at the top as you navigate through different pages. Help and documentation Amazon dedicates a whole page to help, FAQ, and customer service.

 The goal of a good user experience (UX) is to ensure users are able to find value in what you are providing to them. According to Peter Morville, in order for there to be a meaningful and valuable user experience, information must be useful, usable, desirable, findable, accessible, and credible.