Despite some technical difficulties (and server maintenance), we completed our second round of presentations today. Again, most of the interfaces seemed pretty useless to me (though that’s not to say the interfaces themselves were useless), but one in particular stood out. Trello is an “easy, visual way to organize projects.” It essentially allows a project’s […]
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Presentations: Day 1
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Today began the first round of presentations. Of the interfaces seen today, most did not appeal to me at all. That said, the videonot.es interface appeared to have some merit: essentially, the interface allows a user to annotate a video with notes. More than that, the notes are time-stamped to the corresponding part of the […]
Text amongst Sound
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What I did Today I decided to first focus on the text of my project, i.e., the meat of the assignment. I continued working on the Writer/Designer analysis questions to give me a better sense of how I want to focus my presentation and started thinking about organization. I need to finalize exactly what I […]
The Visual Shift
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What I did For today’s class session, I began working with some screenshots I captured over break. At first, I was concerned that the images would not be in a a high enough resolution to project to the class, but after toying with some of the images over break, I don’t think that image resolution […]
Strategy Session
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Today, I started working on my “interrogate an interface” project. I began by creating a login for Clyp.it (the audio sharing interface) and then perused the site. Much to my chagrin, the site appears to be little more than two pages. Given its minimalist purpose, this seems appropriate; however, I’m going to have to do […]
Interface Recon
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For today’s class, we broke into groups and examined previous “Interrogate an Interface” projects from last semester. My group had “The Video Star Verdict,” an analysis of a video making app. I thought the author did an excellent job in developing her web page. Though our project won’t include making an entire site, there are […]
Project 3–Humble Beginnings
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After the mad rush that was signing up for project 3, I have ended up with Clyp.it, a bare-bones audio recording/sharing website. As a music technology minor and all-around audio aficionado, I think I will be able to dive into the minutiae of the interface better than the typical person; with my background in music, […]
Autocorrect
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Without a doubt, autocorrect is a two-edged blade, and as an English major, I really don’t know where to come down on the subject. Certainly on smart devices with touch screens, autocorrect is essential–typing without tactile feedback is quite difficult (especially when your thumb is big enough to cover four letters at a time). It […]
Tidying Up
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What I did Today I put the finishing touches on my site. I reorganized the menus so that they were in a logical order (and not just alphabetical), added text to my “site info” page and fleshed out my “about me” page with links and pictures! I would like to set up some sub-menus for […]
A Semi-productive Snow Day
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What I did More site maintenance today! I keep changing my mind with how I want things to be organized. Specifically, I don’t know how to arrange the placeholder pages of our future projects. I’m sure that will become more apparent as we get to them, but as of now, they just seem a little […]