Author: topher23

Presentation Day #2

Today I presented X-Ray Goggles to the class. The presentation went well and I really enjoyed it. The tool that I thought as the most useful was actually… mine! X-ray Goggles! I thought mine was the most useful because I am an engineering student and I find great utility in applications that help teach new things […]

Checklist Observations

Checklist Observations Utilizing the checklist observations page, I realized that I still needed to do steps #3 and #4 on the list. I do not have time to fix this today, but it will be fixed before I turn the project in. What I did: Worked on my presentation Why I did it: I had […]

Presentation Day #1

Out of all of the websites/applications presented today, the one that piqued my interest the most was Coggle. Coggle was the note-taking application presented by Matt Elliott. This one piqued my interest for several reasons: 1. I have yet to find, in all my 3.5 years of college a really great note taking application. 2. […]

Peer Review Day

I missed class for my peer review, so I had one of my roommates do a peer review on the project. I updated him on what the project is, how it should be done, example projects, and other classmates pages. What I heard in my peer review: There were a plethora of typo’s, the photographs […]

Work Day #3

What I did: Created and filled out a page for the Design Choices of the X-ray Goggles site. I still need images of the site however and to update the hyperlink. Why I did it: I chose to add another page because I needed to keep going on my project. I separated it out the […]

Work Day #2

What I did: Created a layout for my pages for the project to be viewed on my website as well as the first couple of pages have the content filled for them. Why I did it: I made these changes in this way because I wanted to get the website up and running first then […]

Pre-Spring Break Assignment

What I did: Today I took notes on the website in depth analyzing several pages deep as to how everything worked, interacted with eachother, and how responsive things were. Why I did it: I did this as sort of a ‘getting to know my website’ sort of thing. I wanted to make sure I knew […]

Strats Strats Strats Strats

X-Ray Goggles is the interface I chose for my project. Schedule: March 6: Get X-Ray Goggles installed on my computer and get used to what it is and how it really works. March 8: Check out their website and analyze the flow of their site. March 12: Answer the Analysis Questions March 15: Create presentation […]

Interrogating in Class

Today a group and I were to analyze THIS website. One of the main thing I found the example essay that I will apply to my own Interrogate the Interface project is the analyzing of screenshots. I found that she used way too many screenshots in inappropriate places and ind of clogged the system. Screenshots […]

Project 3 Site Selection

Thankfully, after the dash to select a website to remix, I ended up with my second choice. I am working with The X-Ray Goggles in unison with Mozilla Webmaker. This site allows users to pick apart the html/css of a website with ease in a user-friendly environment. I chose this site because web development has […]