Redesigning Craigslist With Focus On Usability

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/11/redesigning-craigslist-with-focus-on-usability/

Craiglist is one of the most popular website in the world, but there are plenty of reasons to consider making some changes. Craigslist need to change in terms of design, layout, and usability.

The problem of Craiglist

1. The Design is Bland and Outdated.

2. Logging In, Signing Up, and Managing an Account is More Difficult than Necessary.

3. Screen Space is not well-arranged.

4. There is no navigation menu that appears consistently throughout the website.

Positive aspects of Craiglist

1. Craigslist is one of the most recognizable website.

2. Nonprofit website

3. Easy to post

4. Fast loading Pages 

Challenges of Redesign

1. Oranization (because of so much content)

2. Improving the website while keeping Craigslist's identity

3. Change a little bit for user who have become accustomed to doing

The Suggested Design

1. Use little color ->monochromatic color with of a few shades of blue

2. Width (760px -> 960px)

3. Typography (serif -> Georgia font) make easy to read

4. Branding (make simple logo with Goudy Bookletter 1911 font)

5. Icons

Layout(Table, Header, Sidebar,Footer)

Usability(Login-In Form on the Home Page, Link to "Create an Account" on the Home Page,

Consistent Navigation, Account Management)

My ideas: This is a great idea. Of course, many people are using Craigslist to share their ideas and seek what they want. I think it has great economical effects on the website in terms of advertising. It is a great place to advertise products because so many people visit this site. This means Ad can be exposed to the public and people can adjust Ad easily. With the revenue from Ad, Craigslist can be more usable and attractive. Actually, Craigslist is a very poplar website, but as soon as people enter the website, it makes them confused because of too much content on the first page. Obviously, this website needs improvement. I hope to see the website having good design and usability.

Joshua Davis:Infinitely Interesting

http://www.apple.com/pro/profiles/joshuadavis/

He make design as art. He said when you're working with corporations and brands like Motorola or Nike, you're adapting your own style to a pre-existing brand. That's more challenge than doing art.

His works are very amazing but,I think his work is possible to work on the web using various colors. If he usually works in the print, those works are not possible because in the print field there are limits to use colors to print well and save money. 

Touch screen menu

e-menu

How can we draw effective design?
When I look around in the city, I think we spend our resources on unnecessary things. I predict some people who work in the simple field might lose their jobs. Do you think a waiter and waitress are those kind of people wasting their time with unnecessary works? I mean it is not my approach that they are not important people. Sometimes when we get good service from them, we can enjoy eating in a good mood.

"MenuPad is an LCD touch screen menu which, provides organization, details, and expanded views of menu items. These menus are intended to replace paper menus available in restaurants."

"Digital menus provide nearly unlimited space and can contain dynamic content."

Assignment 01:

Assignment 01: CREATE visualizations for at least three of the five things you found during the in class exercise. 

1. pumping air into a tire of bicycle

2. traffic signal

Designer of 2015 trends

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/designer-of-2015-trends

Designer of 2015 trends will be a manifestation of a solution including strategy and experiences.

1. Designers need to experience and knowledge including the social sciences and humanities to solve problems in wide areas.

2. Designers need to get abilities to guess further about future problem.

3. Designers focus on specific targets.

4. Designers focus on an attention economy involves communication, information, experience and service design

5. Designers need to give spaces to make users participate in creation.

6. Designers focus on sustainability proposing responsible uses of resources.

my ideas: After looking over 2015 Trends, designers require not only aesthetic aspects but also functional aspects. They have to create works visually and to make customers use it sustainably to attract people. They need to understand how it works and why customers need it. They have to be aware of news about what is going on.

Also, an interesting part of 2015 trends is sharing experiences with users as co-creators. I agree that user-centered design will grow such as blogger and social networking sites.

To be specific, designers have to provide customers with the tools which they can make their own design. So, users can change the colors and format for their own style. Designers have to provide the various designs to meet the customers' taste.

Interactive design 2

Interactive design 2 2009 fall semester

Flying Apartment Systems: The future of mobile residences

http://www.thedesignblog.org/entry/flying-apartments-systems-the-future-of-mobile-residences/

How can we live on the sky?