Today Ye and I discussed User and User Interface with our classmates on class. Actually I am not satisfied because we were not perform good enough to be the guides. However, thanks for the aid of Gabriela and the active participate of classmates.
Now I want to talk about the reflections on this discussion. Most of us’ start page is Google, and me as well. Especially iGoogle has many personalized features in which I put my gmail and lasted news on the top of the webpage,so that igoogle contains the contents that I am most interested in , that is why everyday I am opening igoogle as start page.
Most people have blogs, and most people tend to “decorate” them to show that is “my” blog. Take me as an example. Last week I changed the color of my blog from green to orange, because I think orange expresses my emotions better these days—straightness, flame and notice. There are also many formats used to express themselves, such as a girl uploaded her pet as the cover of the blog. Various layouts are one charming for me to browse the blogs, where we can meet everyone, each has its own identity and shows his/her characteristics.
On class, we were asked whether we went to a website just because of the good interface. For me, the answer is yes; I am crazy about a comic web about Garfield(http://www.garfield.com/comics/todayscomic.html ). When I look at the brilliant colors and beautiful flash, it seems like I went back to my childhood. But I also admit that I bookmark it as a template to make a flash website.
In the video Future User Interface, we can see the use of touchscreen. The files can be circled to compile together, or scattered separately. These functions are cool, but from the perspective of user interface, they are too “beautiful” to be used. And I am also confused about the popularity of touchscreen. It seems like touchscreen is a trend for user interface, but in my opinion, touchscreen is too sensitive to perform the task. Sometimes I mean to touch one time, but touch twice unconsciously, and that results in performing different tasks.
At last, I want to explain why we choose the article the user-derived interface. We think the user-derived interface is something like user-generated content, I mean both of them pay attention to the users. The User-Derived Interface follows the generally natural behaviours of novices, follows the expectations of people for the system, so the system generated this way tend to be more usable in practical use. To make it impartiality, I think it is essential to cover the participants from different background, and when used in other areas, it is necessary to test the system again.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Friday, March 6, 2009
Reflections on user-generated content Media
Nowadays there are various kinds of media whose contents are produced by users for the public. Take me as an example, I often go to Youtube to find the latest news, I cannot study without the resources on moodle and wiki, I log on the blog regularly to see what happens for my friends and write down my reflections these days, just as what I do now!
Websites tend to collect information from the public to guide their future development, and users are also likely to comment on the content to interact with other users on the internet. Personally I have a habit to vote my emotions after reading something on the web. I choose my emotion from a serious of choices like sympathy, happy, sad, boring, etc. In this way, I can see what is the general response from the public and sometimes find someone sharing the same emotions. This kind of settings offers me a good user experience.
However, I meet with something annoying these days. This term we work on moodle for one course. Moodle itself is powerful and usable software, but the problem is that moodle is connected with our emails. Any posts on any forum in moodle will be appeared in our emails, so our inbox is flooded with various kinds of chatting, suggestions while many of them are none of our business. This situation will make students reluctant to the slew of emails pouring from the moodle to everyone’s inboxes.
Blogs are also very famous in China. On the one hand, blogs are free to register and use; on the other hand, people need an exit to release their emotional tension or comment on something in public with less restrictions. Blogs like personalized website, on which everyone write something that s/he is interested in. Thus various users offer multifarious information that covers different kinds of social life. We can even say that blogs create a large database, and an open source database. However, as one kind of user-generated content, how to manage blogs properly is becoming more and more urgent. Some people use blog as a method to make them famous. For this reason they even post something sexual or pornographic resources regardless of the ethical modes.
Despite of these drawbacks, we cannot deny that user- generated content has become a trend and plays more important role in human life.
Websites tend to collect information from the public to guide their future development, and users are also likely to comment on the content to interact with other users on the internet. Personally I have a habit to vote my emotions after reading something on the web. I choose my emotion from a serious of choices like sympathy, happy, sad, boring, etc. In this way, I can see what is the general response from the public and sometimes find someone sharing the same emotions. This kind of settings offers me a good user experience.
However, I meet with something annoying these days. This term we work on moodle for one course. Moodle itself is powerful and usable software, but the problem is that moodle is connected with our emails. Any posts on any forum in moodle will be appeared in our emails, so our inbox is flooded with various kinds of chatting, suggestions while many of them are none of our business. This situation will make students reluctant to the slew of emails pouring from the moodle to everyone’s inboxes.
Blogs are also very famous in China. On the one hand, blogs are free to register and use; on the other hand, people need an exit to release their emotional tension or comment on something in public with less restrictions. Blogs like personalized website, on which everyone write something that s/he is interested in. Thus various users offer multifarious information that covers different kinds of social life. We can even say that blogs create a large database, and an open source database. However, as one kind of user-generated content, how to manage blogs properly is becoming more and more urgent. Some people use blog as a method to make them famous. For this reason they even post something sexual or pornographic resources regardless of the ethical modes.
Despite of these drawbacks, we cannot deny that user- generated content has become a trend and plays more important role in human life.
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