I started school again after a barely two week s vacation. I’m taking summer school for the first time in my three year college career. It looks like it’s going to be a very intents semester because unlike other semesters that have three of four months summer semester is only a month long which mean doing something that would normally take you three or four months to do in as little as five weeks.
Because of the intensity of the scheduling and class work I’m only taken two classes: English 201, and a Math class. My English class is rather interesting this week we tackle to numerous things but the one that really grabbed my attention is the effect of designing documents and web sites of a company. Come on now, we all know that web sites or a company document is the company image but there is a lot more to a document or a web sites than pretty fonts and pictures. Everything is to be fit. I was surprised to see mistakes several big companies like HP makes on its laptop manual. Their manual is boring and clearly poorly managed. They have no 3D picture let alone real pictures on a computer manual. That says a lot about the company; they are lazy, and don’t care much about their consumers. I agree with Professor Williams when she said “HP could have done a better job by taken away those black and white graphics and adding real pictures”
Overall this week has been a great week. I like the way the class was conducted (in a horseshoe type of meeting) which give everyone in the class a chance to see each other as we address a particular subject.
I agree, I found it really surprising to see how many companies have documents and websites that use poor techniques, especially ones (like HP) that most likely have a team of people and resources to create things that are user friendly and intuitive.
ReplyDeleteGood work bringing in your opinions and applying the reading and class discussion to things you see everyday.
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