As I have mentioned I visit Digg regularly, so it is really the best option to critique. The sites features have grown and with the growth the design has changed to accomidate said features. Navigating the site is rather simple and self explanitory, however sometimes the navigation is clumbsy, especially when getting into some of the advanced features of the site. Navigating the front page and figuring out the basic mechanics is easy enough, however, adding friends and changing your profile options gets a little more complicated. The site uses alot of simple lines and soft tones. Not so unlike the WordPress dashboard I am typing in right now, although I do admit the color pallete of Digg is not as nice.
Digg does a good job of being accessible and for people willing to put in the time pretty deep. Most users probably just read front page stories and occasionally comment. Other, more advanced users, submit new stories, comment continuously, and Digg and or bury every other story. Overall the site has good consistency, but at times some growing pains are evident with older style scroll overs aparent in some sections of the website.
In terms of mapping, the sites whole premise is a metaphor it uses the analogy of digging. If you like a story then you digg it, if you don’t like it you can bury it. Many sites have since copied this same system with varied results.
The site has a number of affordances including many button style links to different sections of the webpage. As well as pop-up style interface for inserting comments.
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