Our visit to the Olympic Cauldron park at the Rice Eccles Stadium brought nostalgic memories of the SLC Olympic glory days. I was reminded of how fired up we all were. Every night I watched the events on TV because they were relevant to my environment. As far as design goes... I thought it was reasonably well designed and achieved its goal of bringing back the emotions of that era. For me, because there was that emotional tie, it could have been poor design and I would have still have enjoyed the experience and rated it high.
In class, we talked about the usability factor in our formative assessment. This is a huge factor in user level of engagement. We like to use text to create our designs, yet most people do not like to read text. Think about our in-class discussions. There are a number of factors that draw us to respond to a particular post, but most of us will likely confess that we are more likely to respond to the shorter posts that have some substance to respond to. Short, interesting, and concise.
I think that is a really good point: short, interesting, and concise. That really sums up what I think anything online has to be. It is a good reminder for any of us who might end up designing web pages (at very least during this degree!)
ReplyDeleteI teach two classes with online curriculum and I find that I must print out the worksheets in smaller sections. The instruction is too long and involved so the students will not read or cannot understand as well when reading from the monitor.
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