Recently, I had the chance to read the book The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. You never realize how much user testing/thought must go on to make sure that an objects’ design can guide a user in proper use and workflow of that object. In that vain, I thought I would share an object design journal I have been keeping using the methods outlined by Norman to determine the overall design of everyday objects.
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So this is so cool! I actually have a video about me on the RIT website. For those of you interested in my thesis work you can get a general idea about what I did. For more specifics on my thesis please fill out the contact me form under my about page or it will be released via the digital library at RIT in May 2012.
What great news!! Over the past four years, SI at RIT has had the opportunity to work with approximately 115 unique SI Leaders to provide support to over 274 SI supported course sections! The Supplemental Instruction Program at RIT has received the Outstanding Supplemental Instruction Program by the University of Missouri Kansas City (the founders of SI). We competed with schools all around the world to win! I have been working for the SI program for 4 years (two as an SI Leader and two as their Marketing and Communications Consultant), together with our great team we have created a YouTube Chanel, a successful Facebook page and new branding materials! Take a look and see for yourself!!
Working within a news organization there can be many files and often times metadata can become an issue when dealing with so many files. Recently, I have been working on learning to code within XML. It was through this new skill that I was able to code these trial custom metadata panels for use in Bridge. Theoretically our student news organization at RIT could use these panels to more accurately tag their files.
An example of the code used below:
<xmp_definitions xmlns:ui=”http://ns.adobe.com/xmp/fileinfo/ui/”>
<xmp_schema prefix=”spmetc” namespace=”http://spmetc.cias.rit.edu”
label=”$$$/AWS/FileInfoLib/Panels/spmetc/PanelName=spmetc”
description=”$$$/AWS/FileInfoLib/Panels/spmetc/PanelDescription=Custom metadata for spmetc”>
<!– simple properties –>
<!–This isn’t working correctly
<xmp_property name=”Status” category=”external” label=”$$$/Custom/Property/status_Label=Status:” type=”closedchoice” element_type=”text”>
<xmp_choice raw_value=”Unpublished” label=”$$$/Custom/Property/Choice_unpublished=unpublished”/>
<xmp_choice raw_value=”Published” label=”$$$/Custom/Property/Choice_published=Published”/>
</xmp_property>–>
<!–Use this–>
<xmp_property name=”event” category=”external” label=”$$$/Custom/Property/EventLabel=Event:”
type=”text”/>
<!– End of using this–>
<xmp_property name=”People” category=”external” type=”bag”
label=”$$$/Custom/Property/PeopleInput_Label=People:” element_type=”text” ui:multiLine=”true”
ui:height=”75″/>
</xmp_schema>
</xmp_definitions>
Congress wants to create an act that if passed could make us all lose not only key material but also infringe on our right to free speech. I encourage you all to watch this video as well as go this link to sign the Google petition. Thank you all.
PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.
Arianna Valentini 