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Thursday, April 21, 2016
Unit 3 Reading Response
Street signs is about navigating from words and signage.
Like in store there’s a lot of signs that helps people lead to the products
they are seeking and in websites people type one word and the site immediately
leads them to whatever they are looking for. Bread crumbs is something getting
close to the desired destination by following step by step. Its best the bread
crumbs are located at the top where most navigations are located. The problem
with both the signage and bread crumbs they often lead to frustration because
the navigation can be misleading and force the users to ask for assistance in
person. I’ve been through a lot of situations where I follow sign that I
thought it would lead me to where I need to go but turns out it’s not the right
one I’m looking for and I was forced to ask for help. Same for the website,
when I click on word or type the word it always leads me to some navigation
whether its right or wrong. The signage may work out for some people but for
people who are more specific should really change the signage to the it can
satisfy the users.
http://instinct.ru/flash.htmlThe type used in this site is mixed with Times new roman and sans serifs. The navigation was a little hard but it works almost like a puzzle game, pretty much just click on the right lever and it leads to the next step. The layout is almost something out of a cirque du soleil and the parallax seems to be in well order. The images presented is easy to see, large and clear to understand.
http://www.giselejaquenod.com.ar/
Type appears to be curves, and bolded because this website shows something natural and happy-like. The navigation is almost random because almost everywhere theres more navigations that leads to another and everything is all scroll down for each navigation. The layout seems to be in order but there's too much to see and the parallax is okay due to being set up in order of where the users need to navigate. The images may be clear but appears to be a little small.
http://ryanscherf.net/
Type used is mostly sans serif and times new roman. The navigation is all scroll down while the layout and parallax seem to be well organized. The images however appear to be small because even though the projects are web design they should be more bigger so the users can see clearly.
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Unit 2 Reading Response
CHAPTER 3
Billboard Design 101
This is about creating pages with very clear visual
hierarchy and following the three important traits such have more prominent,
related logically and visually nested. Pretty much it’s a very big page you see
on the front page of newspapers and magazines or driving in the highway and see
those big billboards. This is the best way of taking advantages for readers who
prefer to just scan through the pages for the big pictures and immediately
click them, also many prefer to spend less time reading the details. From what
I think and feel about this, I strongly agree with this because I’m the type of
person who really don’t like reading the big details but rather scan through
and get the idea, I do in fact read the detail only if its small and easy to
understand.
CHAPTER 4 Animal,
Vegetable, or mineral?
In this chapter it about users clicking mindlessly however
there are some certain rules that the users must go through such as updates,
and languages. This is about letting the users make the choice for themselves even
though there are no decisions to be made or they are just doing random clicks
for absolute no reasons. I feel they should make the pages much easier for
users to get less frustrated because I’ve been through a lot of web pages that
requires certain rules which is really bothersome. I understand the security
reasons but if it’s for advertisement or distractions then I feel there should
be some changes that needs to be done.
CHAPTER 5 Omit needless
Words
This chapter is about needless words on pages. Almost every webpage
has lots of paragraph and sentences that are completely useless for users, it’s
very common for the introductions of the webpages. I have to agree with this
because I really can’t stand the annoying long words that means nothing to me.
I understand it’s an introduction about what it’s about or what they do but I
doubt it’s necessary when most of us already get the idea of what the webpage’s
purpose is.
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portfolio
Type is close to times roman and navigation is a long scroll
down. Layout is all color and images while parallax seems very well organized.
Images are small yet clear to be seen.
The type appears to be sketched rather than typed except for
the navigation details which used something close to Calibri font. Its
navigation is almost the same like the others, all are at the top right corner
but this is a little hard to see the navigation when they blend in within the
background. The layout shows black and white colors with photos and sketch art.
The parallax is shows project in different order and rows the images shows to
be large and clear enough.
The type is close to Arial rounded and navigation is
scrolling up and down. The layout is each pages shows the projects and animations
while the parallax seems very well organized. The images use is very large and
clear to be seen.
Friday, April 8, 2016
Unit 1 Reading Response
In chapter 1 “Don’t make me think!” this is about how to be
self-evident on making web pages effective for many users. Its about trying to
make web pages more understandable on how to use it and how it works in a more
effective way. If its more complicated or groundbreaking for the web pages to
work, then you would consider yourself more of a self-explanatory because its you
put more work to it than self-evident. I feel like I’m more of self-evident
because I want to makes thing easy and understandable but if its something that’s
needs to be pitch perfect and requires a lot of work then I will get more self-explanatory.
I didn’t know there’s two differences of designing web pages whether its easy
or hard to make.
In chapter 2 “How we really use web” is how we really see
web pages. Even though there are many web pages that was put in a lot of effort
for it to work the users don’t seem to bother but only see what needs to be
done quick. People just scan through, get the idea and just do it, some don’t
bother reading the whole thing except to stick only that works for the users.
People make quick choices and just muddle through. Like me I don’t bother
looking at the whole thing except only the ones I have to work on the most,
however if there is something that did caught my eye than I would definitely
click on it. I think this very common for everyone besides me, we see
something, we scan it, we muddle through and just do something about it.
Mood Board matters because they help gather useful ideas in my
creations. Gathering images, words, elements and colors will get started on the
design mockup. I think this really helps get the ideas I need in order for me
to create my own designs, a little more inspirations.
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