Usability Test

Being that I have increasingly become addicted to the use of Tumblr, I have decided to do my usability test on the site in which is number 2 in which i share my thoughts with, behind twitter. Facebook is slowly but surely becoming used less and less by me as i feel other sites are giving me what ive been looking for. So i decided to have one of my friends create their own blog and see how easy it was for them to figure things out.

Choosing a Layout:

It was very easy for them to find a layout. I believe the hardest part of it was actually choosing the theme in which fit your personality the best. they have many options that you can choose from which make it easy for your blog to look exactly how u want it. You can Also Link up to your twitter and Facebook pages. The color themes were also very simple. the customizable generator they have set up makes it simple for you to get whatever color that theme allows you to get, you can also make a picture your background.

Blogging:

To start Blogging is very simple. On your own personal dashboard, there are buttons which direct you to which kind of blog post you want to chose. They have choices such as, Text, Photo, Quote, Video, and Media. With the pre-made theme it aoutomatically formats whatever you post into the blog so it comes out nice and neat.

I have been using Tumblr for the past few months now and i believe i will keep using it for both personal and business ventures!

You can Look at my Personal Blog Here. It Shows a few things i am interested in and how i feel.

PUTTING PHONE BACK INTO iPHONE

AT&T is on the verge of making the service for its customers a whole lot better. In my eyes, this is wonderful. I'm a Sprint customer and one of the reasons i havent switched over to AT&T is because of its prices on their plans and many rumors of how the service could be a whole lot better than it is right now. according to sources, they are close to purchasing nearly $2 billion worth of prime wireless spectrum licenses from Qualcomm. AT&T is currently the second largest wireless phone company in the country.

QWOP GAME

QWOP is a super hard game in which you have to control every part of the leg individually with the keys: Q, W, O and P. I played this game for about five minutes before i became extremely frustrated and didn't want to play anymore. it is super hard and I would be very surprised if anyone actually finished the race.

The game is supposed to make your hand-eye coordination better. the games growth in popularity has grown from nearly no one wanting to play for three straight months, to everyone wanting to play the next. I've attached a link in which you can play for yourself!

PLAY HERE

VIDEO GAME POETRY

What if video games were poetry? Reading that, i kind of got caught off guard and didnt think i was reading what i was, but then i decided to read it:

"The games are simple, introduced to us who have no standards with which to judge the quality of video game poems. The A Slow Year games were made with the understanding that poetry can resist being obvious, that it can be expressive within tight constraints, that it can, like a video game, challenge its reader to work through it, that it can be vague but specific, harsh yet beautiful."'

in my eyes, anything thing that makes the viewer think about what they are actually taking part in, is art. Poetry is art. The work put into video games, is art, so i appreciate the fact that someone decided to merge these two worlds of art into one and create something that the viewer can see and have trouble figuring out exactly what it means. its very intriguing and it opens your mind up to many different possibilities beyond just that one video game. i think its brilliant.

A Slow Year from Ian Bogost on Vimeo.

POSTERS . .

this article is about British poster artist Olly Moss, who made a collection of Star Wars movie posters for collectible art house Mondo. Its saying how he showed his nerdy loving side for the movies by creating these posters that will go on sale pretty soon.

Im pretty sure i have showed my opinion on this type of work before. I am currently a MAGD major and a Graphic design minor and one of my dreams is to create designs for graphic clothing. I am slowly moving towards but close to achieving this goal. I think that the work he has done is absolutely wonderful. The graphics are nice and you can tell that he put a lot of work into what he had created. It also shows a love for the art, which i think is being forgotten about these days in elementary through secondary education settings. i think if more students saw the work that can be done through the arts, it could create an avenue in which creativity will spark something that could possibly change the world.

New Amway Arena

The article I read was explaining the new $480 Million Arena which is the home of NBA basketball team, Orlando Magic. It was designed by a Kansas City based firm named Populous. In this arena the tower is illuminated all day every day by 176 LED light fixtures, each of which is composed of individual red, green and blue modules. It is easy to see these lights because he fixtures are made of steal with stainless steal mesh in which they reflect off.

I think the advancement of technology in using it to make buildings look better is amazing. I'm not taking away from the classic look of things, but as a graphic design minor, and having a huge interest in the subject in general, i feel like it is wonderful to add a little more flavor by making fans excited just to step inside the building to see what it holds. I think gather folks for a basketball game and giving them an extra treat by having a building that blows them away will turn out being well worth the money that they spend on it.

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