User-Centric Design & Questionnaire

Today, we learned about User-Centric Design, the process of designing products where users are involved. User-Centric Design focuses on usability goals, user characteristics, environments, tasks and workflow. Usability Goals are:

• Effective to use
• Efficient to use
• Safe to use
• Have good utility
• Easy to learn
• Easy to remember how to use

User characteristics are:

• Gender
• Age
• Disabilities
• Left/Right Handedness
• Height
• etc.

Workflow is the stages involved in order to complete a task/process.

The benefits of User-Centric Design are easy-to-use products, decreased expenses, increased market share and satisfied customers. We also learned about stakeholders. Stakeholders are the people or organisations who are involved, directly or indirectly, with the product.                                                        

Today, I finished an assignment that consisted of making a storyboard for a video advertisement. It was an advert for a new washing powder. I first wrote down ideas for the ad, then refined them into scenes. I drew the scenes and wrote descriptions of each scene. After colouring each of the scenes, I outlined the design solutions and finished the storyboard.

Video Design

Today, I started creating a music video consisting of various pictures relating to certain lyrics in the song. I saved several images from the internet and, using Windows Movie Maker, made a small music video with the pictures.

Multimedia 10-11-11

Today, we were given the task to evaluate several websites.

We were then given a group task to design a Guesthouse Promotion for a local newspaper.
The promotion was for a fancy dress weekend in a guesthouse for Halloween.
We had to design the advertisement by giving key points of information, inserting images and changing text fonts. We wrote down the cost of making the advertisement and finished by saving it.

Today, I started doing a storyboard about a pen that had various functions, including a camera, a scanner and a sound recorder.

I also began creating this blog. After several account creations, I finally got the chance to post.

Now, I'm not sure what to say.