Yellow highlight = action needs to be taken by me
Green text = important points from Simon
Red italic = my notes to self
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PRIMARY RESEARCH:
- Maybe a can of worms opened with having petrol prices as a topic, might end up finding it interesting. Still achieves the notion of avoid bias. 'With any experiment there is going to be something you have to consider'.
- Going to utilise people to explore prototypes of different artefacts and explore whether people do retain the information better on one than the other.
- Good idea to conduct User Journey study, can get participants (friends are fine) and not say anything to them and say "there is an object on the table, I want you to interact with it.", so there are no preconceived ideas of how I (Evie) want the participant to interact with the book.
- Would make sense for me to not be in the room when participant interacting with book, so could film them interacting for 5/10 mins then I look back over the footage after. This would avoid me influencing the observation.
- It is still worth getting permission as I'll have to film them.
- Interesting as it links to attention span, leads nicely onto justifications for how you arrange stuff in books. It allows you to continually renew your attention span at the end of a section. |
- look into attention span further. - Important critique to mention the aesthetics of the example, Aesthetics are important even though it has "chunking" it's not been thought about in typographic terms, just thinking about the psychology. There's no space for the eye to breath when reading, as there are so many inserts that disrupt the reading flow.
- good to mention and critique in essay. - When critiquing can draw on type, readability, principles of text size, line length, serif, sans serif etc for reading chunks of text. Good way to critically engage with theoretical work. And a good justification for wanting to improve on those principles.
- Aesthetics are important as well, to derive pleasure from what you're looking at. Just because it's to educate doesn't mean it has to be unattractive. If you're wanting to approach the topic with enthusiasm surely you want to be enthusiastic about the way it looks?
- "Chunking" here has made a lot of extraneous processing, it is a distraction, taking you out of the reading process.
- If there are examples of visuals to analyse within topic, bring these to next session.
- Visual research, graphic design knoble and betsy - look this up - is an example of bad graphic design, difficult to find the info that is inside (and there is loads of good info in it). Need to figure out the book first before understanding the content.
ESSAY:
- Need to make sure essay structure leads logically from section to section, once got an idea of these can start dropping in content that I've found.
- Mention in section 2 that going to discuss about usability but in relation to publications.
- Need to formalise the practical brief for next tutorial, with title and proposed deliverable outcome etc.
- Structure is working, for next tutorial have a written section of the essay. Would be good to see how I write from the quotes I have.
- Good idea to have essay in word doc as working document. Highlight all stuff that isn't my own and write my essay unhighlighted to avoid getting confused with what's mine and what's not. Once section is complete can delete the highlighted text.
- Break down search questions to something more specific than 'books' to gather the information when struggling to find what I'm looking for. Look up for 'stock choice', 'type', 'layout' etc instead and glue them all together. Don't need to worry too much about this, as the essay has a really nice connection between usability principles and publications that is really good.
- Could say 'In this field designers have done a lot to improve how users engage with information however there aren't many discussions about usability and user interaction in relation to publications. So what can we learn from these principles in relation to publication and publication design?'. And then pick out the parts that make sense, no need to overdo it I have plenty there already. Gaps will become clear as I start writing my essay. - Question is fine, no need to change it.
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WHAT TO DO NEXT:
> Formalise practical brief
> Find positive visual examples
> Write section of essay
- all the above to bring to next tutorial in 2 weeks -
> Research into attention span
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