Required Activity: Analyze a Website: Autocoachsport.com
Activity 1: Edit your OWN multimedia.
Chosen multimedia: My default welcoming profile pic (on one of these sites)
(Before) (After)
(design ignorance) (design skill attempt #1!)
This probably doesn't look like it took a lot of time... but it did... (yeah, I'm a bit upset with myself). Anyways, I originally had this photo up as the front slide of an introduction power-point that I had to share with another GSE course. I then adopted this picture as one of my default profile pictures for one of the sites (which site? Idk.. there's too many to keep track of now). Now, the following will be my explanation to my edits:
- Erased background --> distracting & no value
- Blue color added --> next to the green in color wheel to complement(that's not the word, is it) one another.
- Border added --> to enclose the whole image
- Dashed lines --> aesthetics
- Enlarged bubble --> the focus of the visual is my greeting and name
- Nothing centered --> purposeful, a lesson learned from DBI text
Activity 2: Mini-Composition - draw at least a dozen rectangular borders and fill it with geometric shapes
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This was a nice activity away from the computer...
Vivian:
ReplyDeleteI watched your screencast of your critique of your brother's website, and I agree with your assessment. The only rule her broke was agree that he did not make the purpose clear.
Obviously, if someone was referred to his website knowing what they wanted, they would have no problem navigating in. However, even as someone who coaches track and field, I was not sure what exactly the automatic timing would do. Was this something similar to what is used in races with a lot of athletes where they each get a chip to wear, and the Auto Timing system records their times in order to determine what place they finished, as opposed to using hand-timing? Or was this something that a coach would give to only their athletes, and it would save all of the splits, and total times so that the coach could ditch the "clipboard" and replace it with a tablet or cell phone which could view all of the times?
In any case, just like the website I analyzed, your choice was one designed for a highly specialized audience that was neat and functional, but may not win any awards as a work of art.
Vivian, you did a great job on your welcoming profile picture. It's fascinating how the smallest details can make such big differences. Adding the blue border gave the image so much structure. Also by making the thought bubble so much bigger than "you" just shows that the point of it is telling us your name and greeting.
ReplyDeleteAlso you did a great job with the screencast discussing your brothers website! I too find my self looking more carefully when I go onto websites after learning about all these different rules.
Hi Vivian,
ReplyDeleteI am in agreement with all three of your colleagues above, here -- you did an excellent job of articulating how your brother followed the rules (or committed minor layout sins, in this case). Thanks so much for taking the extra time to create discuss this critique in screencast format! It always helps us as "readers" to see the accompanying visual, and having you talk over each point while mousing to the particular are you're discussing is extremely helpful! Very nicely done!
You may be upset with yourself for taking all the additional time to improve your personal icon, but don't be too hard on yourself! I'm always telling my students "TAKE THE TIME TO TINKER!" The best way to navigate the technological landscape is to spend time working with the various tools, erasing and adding and erasing again, testing various perspectives, etc. You did a nice job with your revised welcome default pic -- it's very cute :)
Finally, I'm glad you enjoyed some time AWAY from the computer for a while in completing the third task. It's always nice to go old-school every once in a while, but having the capability of bringing it into the 21st century a la iPhone or a scanner, etc. It's a nice marriage between the two forms of communication we use most often these days.
Very nicely done!
prof h