DSDN112: Studio 7 group discussion

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Group members - LUCY RUHA, SHARNIA KING, SUSANNA CHOW

1. Have you seen anything recently in Wellington that reminded you of any of the images/points Suri highlights? Reacting, responding, co-opting, exploiting, adapting, conforming or signalling?
  • Adaptation to the bucket fountain how people automatically walk around it so they don’t get splashed.
  • Walking cautiously over the tiles on Cuba Street because they get really slippery when wet.
2. Have you come across any contemporary examples similar to the Channel 18-30 site?
  • http://www.jimcarrey.com/
    This site contains a lot of visual movement and imagery relating to Jim Carrey and his work as an actor. Things are continuously changing on the page and it is very confusing about what is happening. There are many different scenes that are travelled to, which is out of the users’ control. In a way this relates to the work of an actor, taking the viewer to different scenes out of your control. The menu is located at the bottom of the page and is very faint, making it very hard to pick out of the page. This is an example of bad design because a menu on a web page is a reference point.

  • http://www.jkrowling.com/en_GB/
    This is the website of the author JK Rowling who wrote the Harry Potter series. When first going onto the webpage a translucent screen appears detailing how to use the website. The first time I went onto the website I did not see this as I had been clicking the mouse impatiently. The website is presented in a timeline format where you scroll left and right to view the information. There does not seem to be a logical display of the information which makes it harder to comprehend the information at hand.

3. Can you think of a recent experience (on the Web or in the physical world) that failed the Need to Know criteria? How about the opposite - something very complex but gave you just the right amount of Need to Know information?
  • I was given a mobile phone but there was no obvious sign as to the on/off button. Usually there is a symbol that makes it obvious but this phone didn’t have the symbol on any of the buttons. I tried pressing them all but none of them would turn on the phone. I had to Google it to find out, and it was a particular button that I just hadn’t pressed hard enough.
  • The room number system at Victoria University when first arriving at the campus. The first number of the room indicates what level it is on. At first this is a bit confusing because it is not automatic thinking that the first number is the floor number.
4. Hacking: what sort of systems (like the Amazon example) could be useful in rerouting towards other applications?
  • YouTube downloader’s where they are moving around the new laws about downloading free music and videos. The websites which allows audiences to watch free movies and TV programs instead of purchasing them


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