week 4 : 30 Jan
tasks, web 2.0 and design
- Lecture (ppt)
- CBS - Don Norman
- Mini's history of the Net; Tony's Gestalt example
- Task exercise - Go to Imaginary Forces
- Using your blog as a notepad, track/log your steps as you complete these two tasks
- Find their project featuring web videos (what's its name - how many "clicks" and "backtracks" to find it? is this a reasonable task? do you see how this task differs from "find a project"?)
- Find a map to their east coast office (did you note any "error" message?)
- What was this experience like? Also, please comment on the visual/interface design, based on what you learned from the readings. Did the site behave like you expected or like you would have wished?
- Note: This is the type of analysis you'll do for the design analysis project due at the quarter's end ...
- Using your blog as a notepad, track/log your steps as you complete these two tasks
- Discussion - Group 2 Leads:
Assignment framing:
"The following words were published in 1999. Are they relevant to communicators today? Why/why not? What are the implications of this philosophy in how we communicate (create messages) with customers, employees, vendors, voters?"
Added for class discussion:
How does design affect the conversation? How have Web 2.0 techologies (wikis, blogs, social media) changed audience expectations?- Three music websites (all derivatives of Blogger templates - note negative space, proximity)
- Team Work:
Review the STP and other documents distributed by e-mail on Monday. Begin to identify individual roles, responsibilities. Figure out how and how often you're going to communicate outside of class (there will always be in-class team time, but it's not enough!). Someone should be appointed "point of contact" with Kathy and Meg -- so we aren't fielding questions from everyone. Meeting notes should be accessible from the "point of contact" blog -- and you should use the "point of contact" person's blog to archive meeting notes. Please tell Kathy who the point-of-contact person is before the end of the class; have notes from tonight's session posted to the web by Friday.
TouchScreen Interface Demo (tip)
Assignments for Next Week:
- Readings
- NOTE: Week 6 - no readings due to book review discussion! Please send me an e-mail with info about the book you are reading by the end of this week - subject line: COM585 - Book (so that I can filter my mail).