Jingle Balls!!!!!!!!!!!

I cant believe what i saw 2 weeks ago. I was leaving the house for a gym session on october the 25th and i passed a house with their Christmas decorations up already. If thats not taking the *iss then i dont Know what is.

Christmas - i hate it already.

Check out the real reason why Frosty the snowman loves children. I wish he would come down my street for a visit. Some of the residents are too rough for the Jeremy Kyle show!!!!!





The Lecture.

The first thing i noticed is that the numbers have gone down a fair bit in the auditorium (yippeeee - see post on week 1 and 2.)

The second thing i noticed is the noisy *uggers are still there though and it looks like they have driven away the good ones gggrrrrrr.

Daniel Cunliffes tutorial this week centered on Usability again.

The main topics are.

1. System Acceptability.
This explains how a system is excepted as easy to use from criteria such as social acceptability, usefullness and utility in use.

2. Beyond Usability.
The users experience of the system broken down into the following :- Enjoyment, engagement, entertainment, satisfaction and repeatable qualities.

3. Experience levels
The novice, the intermediate and the power user or expert. Three types of user but all with one thing in common. They all started as novices.

The Tutorial.

This week in the tutorial Andreas gave us a handout (booooooooo) on guidelines for web sites. This lectures theme was to remind us that our websites designs need to follow a set of sensible guidelines or else they may become a complete failure.

We devided up into groups and grilled the University website again and examined the site under the criteria in the following web page guidelines.

1. A very stiff official Government guideline site.

2. Jacob Nielsons guideline site.

I have to say that the University website comes out extremely well against the questions posed.

On a personal note I prefered the Nielson site.

You can give me a flash tutorial anyday though.


Reflection.

My reflection on this weeks study is mainly from Daniels tutorial. I learned that we as future multimedia designers have to be carefull how we design and implement our systems. We have to be aware of our target audience. If we overlook this then our site or application will fail. We have to make our applications easily accessible for the novice and intermediate users, but also have enough technical and powerfull applications for the more experiences users. We as humans get bored easily and from my experiences i get bored if:-

a. I find something too easy.

b. I find something too hard.

This has to be taken into consideration when implementing any multimedia design.


Quite a heavy week this week.

See you on week 7 - dodging carol singers knowing my luck.


Ba humbug.

Or in my case Ba humbog.

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