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Objectified Response

The video we watched called “Objectified” was about the views of design in the minds of professional designers.  Each person had a different kind of approach and idea of what design is.  I honestly agreed with almost everything the people said.  Design is just like art in the way that it is personal.  I may feel this way about design that cant be proven wrong, but another person could feel completely opposite sometimes and still not be wrong.  Design depends on the designer, environment, and circumstance.

There is only one thing said I remember that I didn’t like and it was that designers will be the intellectuals in the future.  It is a very bold statement and I disagree.  There will not be one intellectual.  Designers work with others more than most careers so its always  a group situation.  the future is going to be more about survival rather than entertainment and easier ways of doing simple things.  I do not believe designers are going to be the intellectuals of the future.  If there is a designer whom is a genius, its because he is a genius, not that he is a designer.  The first guy who was cutting Japanese trees, German, and wearing all white was my favorite person to listen to.  I agree with his ideas and beliefs on design.

The video has definitely caused me to think different about design, but my definition is still the same.  I believe design and art are based off of personal intentions and experiences.  Simply put, design is creating things.  It gets personal when you think of why and for who.  I guess design is an adaptive kind of idea because it can solve many diverse things in any diverse ways.

 

Woody

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SmartCloset Strategy Scope

Woodrow Hawk

Stradegy and Scope

1/29/15

Stradegy:

Our product is SmartCloset. It is a technological dresser of sorts that organizes and picks out clothing for the user. The main goal of our business is to make money in order to fund the creation of our product. Our target audience is somewhat diverse because a young fashionable teenager might find uses in this and also busy adults that don’t have time to find specific articles of clothing. As a business, we would also like to have the goal of customer satisfaction so that when we make money, we wont be losing it to bad quality. Since our product is not up and running yet, we also would like to give rewards for those who are supporting our business before any real physical purchase is available yet. Plain and simple, we want our business running smoothly, making money, and making customer progress in satisfaction and reliability. A user’s need for this product would be depending on the person. Age, location, occupation, and culture are big factors because anyone could find a use in a closet that organizes and quickly pulls out pre-made outfits for you. Our main focus is on people who want to have outfits easily pre-made and quickly accessible. This would be adults with jobs that require changing of clothing often or professional attire. Teenagers that have a sense of fashion might enjoy this product more than any because of how one could choose between outfits they create without having to search for the clothing stashed in drawers.

Scope:

Our product, SmartCloset is meant to make life easier when choosing clothing. How do we make that easier? We found that it takes a lot of time to find articles of clothing or even making a decision of what clothing to wear. People still fold and organize their own clothing and we thought that technology is improved enough for that to not be needed anymore and therefore, save time. In order to makes these kind of situations easier, we decided on a closet fitting technological box that holds and organizes clothes into their own specified places chosen by the user. After clothes are put in, using the touchscreen on the SmartCloset or the App being developed, clothes can be group and pulled out at any time by a push of a button. We wanted people to be able to access the SmartCloset without having to be in front of it so we are developing an app for a phone or tablet to control the device from anywhere in the house. Clothes are pulled out and neatly presented to you on a drawer that the user would open when the SmartCloset has completed pulling out the clothing the user chooses. There are many options within the SmartCloset that allows any means of organization and grouping. Say the user wants everything organized by color or fabric. SmartCloset will be able to organize that for you. If the user does not know what to wear, the machine can allow you to manually search each organized drawer he/she chose. We are looking at 6-8 chambers for organization, but in the future we can look into smaller or bigger options for people to purchase or even add-ons depending on how the demand turns out.

 

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Elements User Experience Questions

Woodrow Hawk

Elements of the User Experience

1/28/15

 

1.) The goals of Apple’s website are to grab attention of users to their products, quickly and simply allow people to find what they need, and to share information about their products. And of course selling products and support customers. For someone who just purchased their first macbook, their websit has online manuals, support, and contact information. The audience for a mac is, I assuming, vast and diverse so finding the needs for people buying a mac for the first time could be difficult. Taking consideration of customers whom are not knowledgable of technology and computers, having information like they do on their website for customers to find answers to their problems and struggles is very successful as a solution to the user’s need. Basically, any problem encountered can idealy be solved through their website, either by browsing their webpages on macs, using the searchbar to find answers, or by contacting them directly.

 

2.) I do not have a facebook. The sign up page is the first page you see. Theres a quick and easy explanation of what facebook can do for the user and then the signing up requirements such as name, email, and such. A website like facebook has advantages for being known. I feel like people who go on to facebook to sign up know what it is so there isnt much needed on the homepage. I wonder how someone would view the homepage not knowing anything about facebook. i feel like it’d be unappealing. The simple information given barely sheds enough light for a newbie to understand what facebook really does, but it is enough to get someone started i suppose. The information that is wanted to be noticed first to direct the user’s interest are altered to be more noticeable. Such as on top of the sign up section it says this is free and always will be in bigger letters than most the page. “sign up” and “connect with friends” is the first thing I see.

 

3.) Four architectural approaches are hierarchical, matrix, organic, and sequential. Here are examples of each:

-Organic: http://www.eclipse-creative.co.uk/#home.

-Hierarichal: www.apple.com

-Sequential: www.foxnews.com

-matrix: www.battle.net.com

 

4.) For Huffington Post Index page has mostly navigation with content to gather interest direct people’s attention. Thier navigation itself is content is some means. A user would go on to this website to find updates in current news so the page has pictures and generalized titles to grab attention and also made them clickable to direct them to a page designated to show all the content of what was described in the smaller content. Wikipedia, after searching is mostly content. Although almost every word in the content is a link to another page, its still content for the current page you are on. But if a user is curious about a certain word or idea, it can quickly be navigated to content of that specification.

 

5.) Landor’s website uses color and transparency to guide our eyes. There are bolder words to gather more interst to that specification. There are big boxes of bright colors and harder to see smaller boxes to direct our attention to certain things. Because basically everything on Landor is box of itself with a picture, it would be easy to manipulate attention across the webpage. What bothers me is thats there is a lot of dim boxes that i have no clue what they are about. I feel my eyes being guided, but i dont know to what; very little information at first.