Over the semester, I have had a lot of emails I have un-followed. It is almost to the point that I cannot stand them anymore. Recently, I have had some relatively good designed unsubscribed pages within the open sky. I like the fact that it is similar to a lot of mobile interfaces with the […]
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Explain why each exampleapplies user-centered design principles well, or why it violates them. Keep aneye out for such examples. They can be from any context and any object, notonly computer interfaces.
So, every year my husband and I try to out-do each other in our Christmas gifts to each other. In addition an awesome print I found for his online, I thought I would get a frame online too (framing is really expensive at hobby lobby.) Anyways, I get on google and type in “cheap […]
Recently I found this blog, What I wore, on pinterest the other day. It’s actually a tumblr blog, but it doesn’t look like it. I love how this blog is laid out. As you see from the main page, its mostly grey, except the most recent update (which is in full color). This is a […]
I was surfing the internet to find some reviews on tech products for the upcoming holiday. I stumbled across TechCrunch which sounded from the google search, a reliable source. The homepage has a lot going on. While I understand the white space and the green theme, but I don’t really know what is what on […]
Ok, most men and maybe some women living under a rock might not know what pinterest is. It is essentially a bookmarking site, but it is more visual then the tradition reddit.com. It sorts links, photos, videos into user created boards. Every “pin” (bookmark) has a photo, then others see a stream of pins on […]
BuzzFeed.com has to be one of my favorite sites to waste time. If you are unfamiliar, it’s kind of like a pop culture news site with humorous posts as well as cooking and much more. It’s like a dump of information with many different ways to occupy your time. While the content is great, the […]
I know its a day late, but I had to find this awesome link, donthauntmebro.com. It’s this great idea of a google mash up where you put in your address and you can find haunted locations. Love this. It is very clear what the user is supposed to do. It has a little animation of […]
As seen before, at work I encounter multiple interfaces that are complicated and confusing to say the least. This one is no different. To give you a bit of back story, this is a site I use for ordering office supplies for my office. Since Purdue has multiple contracts with various vendors, they have us […]
On my trip to Montreal, Air Canada had these wonderful touch screens in the back of every seat! The idea is you can access movies, xm radio, tv shows, and the feature I likes the best, the map of where the plane is currently. It was pretty good as far as usability except […]
In my job by day, one of the internal clients for my departments is the campus Starbucks. Unlike our other venues that require our full attention when it comes to creating marketing materials, Starbucks usually provides everything for the location. However, for things those constantly change or are temporary like labels for bake cases, directional […]
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