Designer's Glasses

This week as I worked my way through the final stages of my individual project I was struck by how my thoughts of 'audience' drove my creative spirit. It was difficult for me not to image the groups or groups of that I was building my site for. It was as if I kept looking through various glasses visualizing my site as others might. This most likely steered some of my decisions for design as well as content. My experiences teaching both survey level college classes and classes for senior citizens at times worked at odds, but through it I imagined the types of things they would want to see, and the questions they would ask. I hope that my work reaches both those groups and more, but I could understand that their influence governed my actions to a certain extent. On top of that I could not escape my own prejudices in the selection of materials and content. I suppose that crafting the site was a bit like visiting the eye doctor when she dropping and changing various lens before your eyes and keeps asking," Do you see better now? Or now? How about now?" I just hope my website comes out 20-20.

During the past few days I've exchanged some thoughts with:

Curtis: regarding his thoughts on design brevity and substance

Alex: commenting on his header redo; looking better!

Lynn: on design versus substance; and a cool photo!

Comments

[Tracy Fisher]

I love the eyetest comparison -- I just had my eyes checked last week and I've noticed how much that's like webdesign. I was reloading images over the weekend to make my "options" for tonight and everytime I hit refresh it was just like that -- A or B? And just like with an eyetest, sometimes the result is too close to call -- maybe A, but just a fraction. Just remember that when you get those new glasses, it takes a little while to adjust to them -- you won't see things clearly at first but in time you'll get there. Hey, that's just like this class! =)

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