Usability in web pages.
This week's class is about how others interact with your work. In other words how they can get access to any form of content you provide. For this week, it talks about three concepts that include accessibility, usability, and inclusion. Though usability is the main focus from the three above. Usability is about designing products physically or digitally that will be of benefit to everyone or almost everyone. This relates to how a website looks when you first open it, if it is unorganized or certain parts don’t work, people are more likely to leave immediately. With this is mind it is important to have a website has everything that is needed, in an approachable and simple layout so everyone can navigate it without trouble. Another concept talked about when explain usability is the usage of high fidelity and low fidelity features. High fidelity or hi-fi are concepts that require more advanced technology such as eye tracking devices or heat maps to detect what you first see when viewing websites. Low fidelity or lo-fi are more simpler concepts such as concept arts which show your what features are to be included but are not in the current state. Both relate to usability in the ways of how websites are viewed when they are first opened. For example, if you run a website on adopting animals, the first picture could be a picture of the animals who are to be adopted. The first thing you see are what animals are available for adoption. The hi-fi would use a heat tracker to track what is the most looked at picture. Its not to say that Accessibility and Inclusion are any less important. They are both very beneficial for those with reading disabilities, or those who may not fully understand a foreign language. Those two concepts are able for them to understand design without having to take time to fully get it immediately. From my personal view, all three of these have a purpose for how we navigate the internet in various ways. An example that it mentions is uses of it on a phone rather than a desktop. Although social media is highly used on our phones, the layout and quality of these platforms is a different experience when using a better hardware system such as a personal computer or laptop. The layouts and features are vastly different viewing on a phone as opposed to viewing on a computer. For example, viewing YouTube on a computer is a very different thing than viewing on the app on phones. For phones, not only are there a selection of videos from what you have seen, but they also have shorter videos called shorts. As the name suggests they are no more than a minute and are on repeat when they are over. It functions much like TikTok in that part. They also have a plus button in the center for easier access to upload videos yourself adding the options for content creating on the go. Having the format change when looking on your phone makes it more convenient so it is a good thing for the most part. Since not everyone has access to a computer, having your phone do most of the things a computer can, to fit the format and qualities on a phone does make it more accessible for everyone to check out what you doing.
References:
- https://www.w3.org/WAI/fundamentals/accessibility-usability-inclusion/
- https://uxmyths.com/post/647473628/myth-people-read-on-the-web
- usability research findings.pptx, Usability Research Powerpoint (Week 6)
- https://www.shiftelearning.com/blog/mobile-vs-desktop-reading-elearning
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