It is really scary to think that I myself have agreed to terms and conditions and things that I really had no idea what they were about. I have never actually sat down and read those. As they said in the video, really no one has actually read them, even the person writing them really has not. That was an obvious joke but it really made me think what I was really agreeing to when I enter a website. Sooner than later, they are going to have you agreeing to terms and conditions practically without you even knowing that you are. One fact that caught my eye during the video was that “250 billion dollars was lost in a year due to what was written in print.” That is an insane amount of money we are talking about here. Another thing that caught my eye was about Instagram. On Instagram terms and conditions it says that they can sell your photos. I have an Instagram and I did not know that they could take any of my photos and actually sell them without telling me, but they can. It is in their terms and conditions policy that I clearly did not read. I never really understood what “cookies” were on the internet until this video. Which makes sense to me why I will be on Facebook and an advertisement for EXPRESS shopping store will pop up. I online shop a lot and it makes sense why most of the ads that are shown are fashion related. It is crazy to me that the internet knows so much about me, more than half of the people that I know based upon my searches online. It really makes me think, “Do I really have privacy?” I don’t believe privacy exist in this world today. There are many reasons why I think that. First off, our safety. Safety comes first in America and well honestly, I agree with it. The internet is a different world. Some people believe that if you post something and delete it, it is gone forever. Meanwhile, it is there and will ALWAYS be there, you just cannot see it yourself. Is our personal data worth that much to the government? Yes. I think the more they know about people the easier it is for them to keep us safe. The kind of world we live in today is a world where anything can happen at any time. The more the know I think is better off for us. I don’t believe we will ever have privacy on the internet or using any kind of technology device. I think if you want privacy you need to stay off technology, stay off the internet and do things to old fashion way. TALK!! That is something that us humans do not seem to know how to do anymore. The internet has really taken over the world and it is most definitely not a private world.
Chapters 3, 4 & 5
What information can ethnographic tools give you to improve the interactivity of an online banking website?
Ethnographic tools help the interaction designers recognize and know their audience better. They improve and help you gather the data about your customer base to improve the designs. These tools are used by observing, interviewing and analyzing people. This understanding would ultimately create a better experience.
At what point is a design finished? What makes it a success? What is its purpose?
The design can be finished based on many different stages depending upon the project and how the designer sees it. When the project meets all the goals that are to be met and the outcome is an overall success. A design is finished when the designer feels like their work is all done. Whether or not a design is successful or not is subjective. If the project was a success depends on the designers. A design purpose depends on the person who is actually using it.
Identify a product family you use regularly. How has its branding effected your use, relationship and experience with the product?
Personally, I would say google. I use google on a daily basis for everything and anything that I need to search for. Google is very reliable, therefore, I use it most often and use it before I would use any other search engine. Their site is fast paced and very easy to use. I also use Google Docs and Google drive on a daily basis to save all of my artwork. It hold and keeps safe all of my files and everything that I need to get in touch with on a daily basis. Google is very reliable.
Chapter 6 Responce
The overview of Chapter 6 talks about norms and negative behaviors. So, what exactly are norms? They are behaviors that are common for people that are within a certain group of something. One thing can be a norm for someone and not for another person. If someone thinks that someone or something such as a design goes against of what they believe are “norms” then they will usually have a certain judgment or feel towards that which leads to a negative behavior. Another thing that is mentioned in Chapter 6 is called discursive design. Discursive design is a rubric beneath which other existing, similarly-minded approaches exist, such as Critical Design. The primary intent of the discursive designer is to encourage users’ reflections upon, or engagements with, a particular discourse; the goal is to affect the intellect. In Chapter 6, they explain this as a category of design that treats products as ideas. Lastly, the Chapter spoke about the shifting of negative behavior throughout design. Negative behaviors can be shifted by people rethink of things.
Chapters 1-2 Response:
I believe that Interaction Design is the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services. It is mainly the creative process and thoughts of people. Just like many other design fields, interaction design also has an interest in form, however its main focus is mainly on behavior. It is imagining things as they might be rather than focusing on how things are and work. That explains the difference between interaction design as being a design field rather than a science or engineering field. Some challenges I believe would be to know exactly what your mission is. You must come up with something that is user friendly and easy to communicate to that user. You must figure out what exactly you should provide for the user and how it should work and feel. I believe that interaction design comes from science and engineering as I mentioned earlier. There is a reason why this is a design field rather than a science or engineering, however I believe it draws a lot of knowledge from those fields as well.
ARTM2220 Designing for New Media
1.) What are the goals of Apple’s website? How does Apple’s website address the needs of a user who has just purchased their first Macbook?
Apple’s goal is to reach the users goal, meaning that the website is easy and clear to read and also easy to navigate through to find what they are looking for. They sort it all out on the navigation bar. You can choose which “Mac” you purchased or want to purchase and if you do not know they also have the names and small icons to make it easy for the user. It is easy for all ages to use. It is quick and easy and a very user friendly website!
2.) What are the functional specifications of Facebook’s wall?
The functional specifications would be to share and communicate. How does Facebook allow you to do that? By having chats, posting pictures, by having albums to store your photos in, and also being able to post things. You can also search and add friends to stay in touch with them.
3.) What are the 4 architectural approaches to information structure?
Hierarchal: The most important stuff. It is the “navigation bar.” People find the most important factors of the website on this structure. Apple’s website would be an example of this.
Matrix Structure: How things relate. Allows the user to move from place to place and navigate. An example of this would be Library.rmu.edu
Organic Structure: Not organized by patterns. It is very unique because not everyone will have the same “movement” as you can say. Not everyone ends up in the same place. An example of this would be Wikipedia.
Sequential Structure: A sequence, something like a video, a movie or a book. Amazon would be an example of this.
4.)What percent of the Huffington Post index page is navigation and what percent is content?
I would say that the Huffington Post would be about 80% navigation and 20% content
Google: 80% navigation, 20% content
Wikipedia: 90% navigation, 10% content
Etsy: 60% navigation, 40% content
5.)How does www.landor.com guide the reader’s eyes and focus their attention on whats important?
I believe that their color choice of the white, the blue’s and yellow’s work very well. They really catch the eye. They have nice big typography that is always eye catching. The overall layout works well for the website and also the parallax scroll that they have really makes you read as you scroll down the page.