Week 5

During the lecture we talked about design a practicality and usability. During the tutorial we thought about an old design such as the old televisions, which only had buttons which allows only have buttons which allows 4 channels, we looked at the future as it is now, and come to the decision that this was not practical as we have hundreds of channels available now. So the old television cannot be used. I learned that you always have to look to the future when designing, because if things can progress they probably will. When you are making your design you have to think of the long term usability and how the user will be affected with any changes that could have been made.

During this weeks tutorial we had to look at a website which had the recommendations for building a homepage. We had to look through chapter 5 and comment on the recommendations published on the website. We also had to consider different scenarios; such as would these recommendations apply to gambling websites, or children’s websites. With the recommendations in mind we then had to search the Glamorgan website and comment on whether the website used any of the recommendations published and if so how.

I really enjoyed this week’s lecture because the lecturer used real life examples in order to portray the lecture. This helped me understand the subject much better. I did not enjoy the tutorial as much as I found it tedious. I learn a lot from lectures but I find that the tutorials are not that helpful and this week did not relate to the lecture, or if it did I could not see the relationship between the two.

The Website links i am going to leave today are to show how television technology has moved on from where it used to be 4 buttons to the amount of channels we have now.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=old%20televisions&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=new+televisions&btnG=Search+Images