{"id":1369,"date":"2016-03-02T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T01:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2016-03-04T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T17:59:07","slug":"thoughts-chapters-3-4-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=1369","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts: Chapters 3, 4, 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What information can ethnographic tools give you to improve the interactivity of an online banking website?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ethnographic tools are used by observing, interviewing, and analyzing people in a social setting. An online banking website could use this to better understand its users. This understanding would ultimately create a better, more wholesome experience.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At what point is a design finished? What makes it a success? What is its purpose?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A design is finished when the designer(s) feel as though their work is done. Now, whether or not a design is successful or not is subjective. Everyone has their own metric of success. To one, \u00a0it may just be whether or not the design makes a profit. To others it may just be whether or not it is well liked and\/or useful. A design&#8217;s purpose depends on the person using it. A user may find a purpose that wasn&#8217;t initially intended by the designer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Identify a product family you use regularly (can be anything from technology to consumables except for coffee). How has its branding effected your use, relationship and experience with the product?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Google has run my life for the better part of a decade. I have an android phone that runs on Google software, I use google chrome as my default browser, and, obviously, I use Google&#8217;s search engine whenever I have a problem or question of any kind. I use google because it&#8217;s efficient. All of their products work well and fast. Also, the connectivity is very important. I can save a file using google drive on my MacBook Pro, then open it up on my Motorola phone or Samsung tablet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What information can ethnographic tools give you to improve the interactivity of an online banking website? Ethnographic tools are used by observing, interviewing, and analyzing people in a social setting. An online banking website could use this to better understand its users. This understanding would ultimately create a better, more wholesome experience. At what point &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=1369\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Thoughts: Chapters 3, 4, 5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artm2220-designing-for-new-media","category-reading-response"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}