Website Evaluation - Slickdeals - Summary

Slickdeals.net is known as one of the premier places on the Internet to search for deals on consumer products and services. The main focus of the site is to host deal discussions and have community thumbs up-votes and thumbs down-votes on good deals. Although the site claims to host a large community of users of all ages and skill levels, the site design is not necessarily completely user-friendly. The advertisements break up the flow of the site and the navigation is not intuitive and the lingo of the site also requires some research and careful reading. Otherwise the site has a good color scheme and is very readable. Although the search process is very basic, the main draw of the site is a strong community base that is usually ready to help those who are lost. Once the initial learning curve is conquered, the site is actually very user-friendly.