{"id":512,"date":"2015-03-11T09:24:13","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2015-03-11T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T19:16:11","slug":"elements-of-the-user-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Elements of the User Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>What are the goals of Apple\u2019s website? How does Apple\u2019s website address the needs of a user who has just purchased their first MacBook? (pp. 41-56)\n<ul>\n<li>Apples website is designed to let the user learn\u00a0about their products and purchase them. \u00a0It also creates a brand for the company. \u00a0They&#8217;ve had the same nav bar set up for years. \u00a0The content of the buttons and design aspect may have changed but the actual bar has been the same.<\/li>\n<li>It addresses the needs by offering informational help, how to&#8217;s and video tutorials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What are the functional specifications of Facebook\u2019s wall?\n<ul>\n<li>Facebooks wall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What are four architectural approaches to information structure? Find one example of each. (pp. 94-106)\n<ul>\n<li>Hierarchical-Facebook<\/li>\n<li>Matrix-Amazon<\/li>\n<li>Organic-Wikipedia<\/li>\n<li>Sequential-Amazon Checkout<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>What percentage of The Huffington Post index page is navigation, and what percentage is content? What about Google, Wikipedia, and Etsy? (pp. 116-134)\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Huffington Post index page is mainly content. I would say that approximately 80% of the page consists of content, while only 20% is navigation. \u00a0The main content includes posted articles. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"p1\">Google consists of primarily navigation, I would say approximately 98% navigation. \u00a0The only content I would say is the logo or the google doodle that swaps out when they have something special.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Wikipedia I would say is about 65% content and 35% navigation. \u00a0They have thousands of pages linking to different sites that explain more and more about the individual words you click.<\/li>\n<li>Etsy is similiar to Wikipedia. \u00a0I think that Etsy has about 75% content and 25% navigation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How does http:\/\/www.landor.com guide the readers\u2019 eyes and focus their attention on what is important? (pp. 144-155 )\n<ul>\n<li>It fades out the lesser important stuff and keeps the more prominent promoted stuff in full color towards the center of the page.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the goals of Apple\u2019s website? How does Apple\u2019s website address the needs of a user who has just purchased their first MacBook? (pp. 41-56) Apples website is designed to let the user learn\u00a0about their products and purchase them. \u00a0It also creates a brand for the company. \u00a0They&#8217;ve had the same nav bar set &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/?p=512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elements of the User Experience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","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\/512","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rmu.andrewyames.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}