Was there a leader in your group? Who was it and who decided who the leader would be? We didn’t exactly have a leader. In the beginning, everyone threw out some ideas, we combined pieces of each and began work on the structure. Audrey was a sort of morale leader in keeping everyone encouraged and maintaining verbal communication within the group. If you had no leader, do you think having designated someone a leader would have helped? I believe, based on the time we were given, the most naturally occurring way was the best. If a leader revealed themselves early … Continue reading Mallows

Delta Encoding – The compressor stores the difference in neighboring pixels, especially useful for large areas that are similar like a picture of the sky or water. Can be extended to group blocks of nearby pixels. 2. Images often have metadata attached like geolocation and as a display resource that is a waste of space and slows load times. 3.  CSS pixels can contain 1 to many physical pixels. They are not the same but the more physical pixels the better it looks.   Continue reading Image Optimization

AR Kids Read Location anchor with link… or a more noticeable one. Is it all on one page? Why? Hypothesis: Takes longer to load site initially but people may have more patience at that point than when they are on a page trying to navigate around. Once page is loaded upfront, skipping around should be quicker. The site becomes so comfortable that you stay longer. Cobalt Couldn’t find news feed. Still couldn’t find news… apparently he just didn’t see it. Video feed not clear enough to tell if that’s the user’s fault or the design’s. UAMS No major problems. Perhaps … Continue reading User Test

I know we aren’t supposed to just write about the first video, but one of the most interesting tools I learned was, I think, the first one in whole series. Searching images by color is brilliant. I can’t imagine how much time I would’ve saved on PowerPoints and how much I might save in the future with being able to filter down to only pictures that will match my color scheme and start getting picky from there. Next would be OR, AND, and -. We learned these in class and I have heard about them before but I never think … Continue reading Gaggle of Google.

Last week we were separated into groups and tasked with laying out a deck of cards in a predetermined grid. I had Justin, Jacob and Christina in my group. We thought we had a pretty good plan so Jacob just said 90 seconds as a guess. We then felt a bit nervous so we went with 2 minutes. It actually took 90 seconds the first time. We didn’t exactly have a leader. We pieced a plan together and went with it. It worked well enough once that we just decided to try to improve on our movements and keep our … Continue reading Cards Against Disorganization