Kismet Arts Tangent

Post-critique:

Calendars in people’s presentations made Tim comment. Each calendar (online and off) requires a certain kind of engagement from the user. Will they mark x for days passed? It doesn’t stop at the calendar phase, the user finds a date he likes, perhaps an event he plans on attending and then acquires more information. Planning is the key and when you think about the user planning for fun or business, the outcome is organization. It’s about keeping all your information, concise, clear and standardized. A calendar mis-design is often to blame for missed fun. It’s our duty as designers to protect people’s fun, at least in this small way.

During the class, Tim discussed how to control the user’s experience. There are considerations such as word choice (don’t put “crime” as a tab on your newspapers homepage). He discussed how flyaway menus are dying out due to the mobile device and the use of the finger as an interface manipulator. You don’t want the user to leave the site where you can’t control the experience. Give them enough information.

He noted that one of the students had a “submit” page which is pretty standard for blog-y sites and felt it was a cold word to use for a Newspaper site. I never connected submit and submission before, but now I can’t get it out of my head.

(Earlier Post Relating to This Project)