Thursday 14 October 2010
Complete Beginners Guide To Interaction Design...
Web designers used to be similar to graphic designers in a way that they both worked with presentation, but now websites are more interactive, that's where the web designers stray from the layout of things and concern themselves more with the responsive aspect of sites. Interactive design, being only a couple of decades old, is relatively new.
Interactive Design- The study of devices with which the user can interact.
Experience Design-
Human- computer interaction- Being only concerned with the interaction between users and computers.
IxD Concepts
Gold- driven Design
Using research to see what the user wants to get out of the site to make it more successful.
Interface as Magic
Making interfaces so good the the user simply has to 'see' them as an extension of the underlying system. 'Less is less' giving the user just what they need.
Usability
The ease that the user can use the interface to achieve there goal. Web designers should always have this in mind.
Affordances
The quality of the interface and how straightforward it is for the user to perform an action.
Interactive Design- The study of devices with which the user can interact.
Experience Design-
Human- computer interaction- Being only concerned with the interaction between users and computers.
IxD Concepts
Gold- driven Design
Using research to see what the user wants to get out of the site to make it more successful.
Interface as Magic
Making interfaces so good the the user simply has to 'see' them as an extension of the underlying system. 'Less is less' giving the user just what they need.
Usability
The ease that the user can use the interface to achieve there goal. Web designers should always have this in mind.
Affordances
The quality of the interface and how straightforward it is for the user to perform an action.
Tuesday 12 October 2010
Blog To The Future ||
Right... So I got a little confused about the 'write on your blog about the future' thing... It was actually, 'write what you want to get out of this year'... So... I'm aiming to get quite a lot out of this year because I didn't do too well last year... To say the lease... :) But I think I will get a few things out of it which I really didn't think I would, or never would have done unless I would have came to university, like... Work experience... I thought the only work experience I'd ever do was the 3 days I did at Lloyds Pharmacy on the Isle of Man, where basically all I did was mess with the tester make-up all day because they didn't trust me on the tills... But no no no! I'm going to go to a big company?! Crazyness! I still have no idea where I want to go yet though... Not even if I want to go to somewhere here or on the Island... But to be honest, the thing I'm most worried about is that no one will probably want to to do work experience at there company... Bad times! But I'm sure I'll find somewhere... Ahem... :)
Another thing I'm looking forward to is not dreading some days of the week, (no offense film and 3D people) because I'm only going to be doing things I want to be now... I don't really know what else I want to get out of this year yet, because we're still right at the start, I just want to get as much as I can! ;) Haha...
Another thing I'm looking forward to is not dreading some days of the week, (no offense film and 3D people) because I'm only going to be doing things I want to be now... I don't really know what else I want to get out of this year yet, because we're still right at the start, I just want to get as much as I can! ;) Haha...
Monday 11 October 2010
Blog To The Future...
Simon told us to write on here about what we want to do in the future... I don't really know what to write that I haven't already said in class... But I'd like to be a teacher after this course so I'd have to do a teaching course after this one, but I'm thinking of not coming back to NTU, (not that I don't love it here) But I think I'd rather do an open university course at home on the Isle of Man because I would love to work at a manx school to bring a more computer based approach to art lessons and give students more access to interactive media and technology instead of just drawing and painting. I'd also really like to make silly children's books and online games on the side, just because I really enjoy doing it... :)
Friday 8 October 2010
Reviewing Websites...
I think my sites are going to be a bit different to everyone else's, but here it goes...
The Flower Fairies website...
http://www.flowerfairies.com/home.html
This is probably one of the cutest sites I have ever seen... It's so good when you first get onto it, there's magical music and all the menus pop onto the page. The actual content of the site isn't really that good though, which is a bit disappointing, but there is a 'Meet the fairies' menu and it is great! There is pictures of different types of fairies and a poem for each of them, I really like kids poetry, and if I have kids I want them to be more into books and climbing trees more than TV and the internet like I was when I was younger. I also just love the drawings on this website, because it's not just coloured shapes made into a character on a computer, it's actual intricate drawings and paintings that have been scanned in. I really like this site and if I was going to make a children's site, I'd want it to be all wonderful and girly like this one... :)
The CBeebies website...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/
The rest of this site isn't that good, but the 'Make and Colour' bit has the best making idea's I've ever see online. It's like Art Attack online! (It's 'Mr. Maker now though isn't it?) I also found this show on there...
How weird?! So, yeah... The site is really colourful and quite educational really, and I love that it has a 'Story Time' menu, for all the kids who have parents like mine who couldn't be bothered reading to them, haha! I do really like the design, but it's a bit computerized... I mean, most of the characters on there are just yellow blobby triangles... And I know that they're the Cbeebies logo characters, but I just think they could have made them more stimulating for kids... And they've had them for ages now, I think it's about time for a change! ;)
The Thomas The Tank website...
http://www.thomasandfriends.com/uk/Thomas.mvc/Home
This site isn't even that good, it's just absolutely hilarious! When you move your mouse over the menus it says the title of each of them out loud, like, 'Activities'. And if you go over the Thomas the Tank logo it says, 'Home!' (All though it sounds more like, 'Hoe!') And you can make him say many funny things from, 'Ho, Activities!' to 'Gay, Videos!' When you put your cursor over the games menu and then quickly move it to the videos menu... Yep, I really am that immature... :)
But any way... I do really like this site, I used to love Thomas when I was little, (more when Ringo Star was the narrator though.) I really like the background of the site, I'm pretty obsessed with clouds... Especially cumulonimbus, and even though it's more of a boyish website it gives it more of a girly tone. The games on the site are really fun, (The colouring one is my favourite) and well designed and the whole site is pretty easy to navigate and there isn't too many advertisements either, which is always a plus! :)
The Flower Fairies website...
http://www.flowerfairies.com/home.html
This is probably one of the cutest sites I have ever seen... It's so good when you first get onto it, there's magical music and all the menus pop onto the page. The actual content of the site isn't really that good though, which is a bit disappointing, but there is a 'Meet the fairies' menu and it is great! There is pictures of different types of fairies and a poem for each of them, I really like kids poetry, and if I have kids I want them to be more into books and climbing trees more than TV and the internet like I was when I was younger. I also just love the drawings on this website, because it's not just coloured shapes made into a character on a computer, it's actual intricate drawings and paintings that have been scanned in. I really like this site and if I was going to make a children's site, I'd want it to be all wonderful and girly like this one... :)
The CBeebies website...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/
The rest of this site isn't that good, but the 'Make and Colour' bit has the best making idea's I've ever see online. It's like Art Attack online! (It's 'Mr. Maker now though isn't it?) I also found this show on there...
How weird?! So, yeah... The site is really colourful and quite educational really, and I love that it has a 'Story Time' menu, for all the kids who have parents like mine who couldn't be bothered reading to them, haha! I do really like the design, but it's a bit computerized... I mean, most of the characters on there are just yellow blobby triangles... And I know that they're the Cbeebies logo characters, but I just think they could have made them more stimulating for kids... And they've had them for ages now, I think it's about time for a change! ;)
The Thomas The Tank website...
http://www.thomasandfriends.com/uk/Thomas.mvc/Home
This site isn't even that good, it's just absolutely hilarious! When you move your mouse over the menus it says the title of each of them out loud, like, 'Activities'. And if you go over the Thomas the Tank logo it says, 'Home!' (All though it sounds more like, 'Hoe!') And you can make him say many funny things from, 'Ho, Activities!' to 'Gay, Videos!' When you put your cursor over the games menu and then quickly move it to the videos menu... Yep, I really am that immature... :)
But any way... I do really like this site, I used to love Thomas when I was little, (more when Ringo Star was the narrator though.) I really like the background of the site, I'm pretty obsessed with clouds... Especially cumulonimbus, and even though it's more of a boyish website it gives it more of a girly tone. The games on the site are really fun, (The colouring one is my favourite) and well designed and the whole site is pretty easy to navigate and there isn't too many advertisements either, which is always a plus! :)
Second Year...
Well I finally got back onto my blog... I forgot the password... Again! :) But anyways... This is the first post of year 2, I'm actually amazed (As I think are many others) that I actually got back. I'm really looking forward to making sexy websites and learning lots of new and lovely things though... :)
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