Week 1 Reading

Week 1 Reading - Intro, Chapter 1 and 2


The reading was very easy to follow and opens your eyes right away. Your able to understand him for he puts it in a simple term that I can imagine it right away, as for I am new in the design field which he writes the book like "gets to the point, straight and simple".


The introduction of the book gives you a clear view of the roles that are played in this field from the clients to the users. This may be a thin book but it has his view of how people use the internet and the designs of the web.


As a Designer your goal is to listen to the clients needs and at the same time understand the users also. Now it's the to build it the right way, which make me think as he wrote in the book on how we really use the internet. I never really looked at web sites as a site that is obvious or one that requires thought to "click". The awareness of the users ability never crossed my mind like that.


So we read less and scan for what catches our eyes, peaks our interest or task on hand. It seems that everything in our lives in one way or another its leads to now, now and now so we scan to cut time down. As a designer we need to catch that scan and build it in our finish product. They do say the internet is the information highway, so the web site that are built are the billboards, so we need to catch the users attention going over 60 miles per hour.


I like the part where he had notice people where putting URL in the Yahoo search box. We need to remember these are our users and think in "their" box sometimes.