Homework #6

Part A. Words (229)

I read the Visual Decision Making article at http://www.alistapart.com/articles/visual-decision-making/ and I learned how important good graphics are when making a site. It is not a waist of time to put good graphics onto your site. It can help you to control where you want the reader or user to move there eyes to next. You can use this technique to get the user to look at the information that you want them too first. It is very important to have your main display looking very good. There was a test done that showed that most people make their visual decision about a web page in 50 milliseconds or less. Another study was done explaining why attractive things work better. According to the psychology study then our brain simply likes it better. There are different levels that our mind process a site. Such as when we first look at it all the way until we interact with it we are constantly thinking about something. The data that we have on a site helps the user to realize if they will want to come back at a later time or not. By getting user feedback then we can better understand what it is that people like and don’t like it. It is always best to base a sight off of the needs of the users then our own needs and wants.

Part B. Words (223)

From the guest speaker Brother Memmott. I learned how important it is to have good art and photographs on your site. It can be really attracting to the audience. This is probably the most important job that one person would have when making a website because they have to make it work with the text from the writers, the developers, ect. It has to be able to tie in with everyone elses job and help it out. It is really important to have a good team when making a site and doing these things. For it to look professional. I now understand more about what the role of the designer really is. It is huge but it must be a lot of fun as well. They are in charge of design and branding, user interface, Technology and everything else that goes along in those categories. There are always sites that need help in those areas. But the main part in designing a sight for a company is that you have a team when you are doing it. And to get a nice completed site requires a lot of team effort. And a good team manager. But the time goes by a lot faster as well when you are having fun doing your work. In the end we should just enjoy what we do.