Tuesday, January 20, 2015
My last blog post will be a goodbye to all of the people who followed my blog and that were interested in reading my post's. I had fun in this class with Dom, Sarah and Nick. We made some fun smelly memories with Nick's farts. I will miss this class and writing about interesting topics and what not. So long bloggers.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Final Analysis
During the process of creating a guide, I chose the technology of newer hockey equipment and explained how to acquire it and how to prepare for playing hockey. I chose these technologies because I am very familiar with them and the process was very common to me and I do it on a day to day basis. My user was a friend of mine who played hockey when he was the age of 4 so it was still fairly new to him. During his use of my guide I took notes on how he was doing while reading the guide off to him.
What I learned from this process was how to vividly explain something so uncommon to someone else. Creating a guide can be a simple solution to many problems. They just have to be specific and understandable. When I gave my guide to my user, it took him a minute to get situated but then after he understood the concept of how to use the guide he flew through it and did fine.
I learned from watching other people use my guides that not everyone understands you sometimes. Or people do not understand directions the same way as you. For example on step six where it explains how to tie your skates, my user didn't understand the meaning of tightening them by the way I explained it. He just tied them like regular shoes and didn't tighten them. These are the kinds of things where people don't always understand what you mean.
The changes I made to my guide was including the technology about the things I used in my guide like the hockey stick, or the helmets etc. It was important to include the technology in the steps to inform the user that the things being used are safe and updated. The changes I would have made would have been explaining the steps with a little more emphasis on each of them, that might have helped with the understanding of each step.
To summarize my technology survey, which asked about having a smartphone which 75% of my users did have smartphones, It also asked about their favorite type of social media website and asked about how much time they used each site. The final questions were about seeing cyber bullying and how much they saw it, which 100% see's cyber bullying on social media websites, and finally 100% of the people who took my survey does have internet at their house.
What I learned from this process was how to vividly explain something so uncommon to someone else. Creating a guide can be a simple solution to many problems. They just have to be specific and understandable. When I gave my guide to my user, it took him a minute to get situated but then after he understood the concept of how to use the guide he flew through it and did fine.
I learned from watching other people use my guides that not everyone understands you sometimes. Or people do not understand directions the same way as you. For example on step six where it explains how to tie your skates, my user didn't understand the meaning of tightening them by the way I explained it. He just tied them like regular shoes and didn't tighten them. These are the kinds of things where people don't always understand what you mean.
The changes I made to my guide was including the technology about the things I used in my guide like the hockey stick, or the helmets etc. It was important to include the technology in the steps to inform the user that the things being used are safe and updated. The changes I would have made would have been explaining the steps with a little more emphasis on each of them, that might have helped with the understanding of each step.
To summarize my technology survey, which asked about having a smartphone which 75% of my users did have smartphones, It also asked about their favorite type of social media website and asked about how much time they used each site. The final questions were about seeing cyber bullying and how much they saw it, which 100% see's cyber bullying on social media websites, and finally 100% of the people who took my survey does have internet at their house.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Top 10!
My top ten most important things to me..
10. Cooking
9. Food
8. Red Wings
7. Traveling
6. Friends
5. My house
4. My dog
3. Music
2. Hockey
1. My family
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