Intro and body

Introduction
I will present the findings from the usability test on portfolio creation, in this recommendation report.
Overview of my report:
• Summary
• Introduction
• Methodology
• Results
• Recommendations
The tutorial I tested was created to assist design students in constructing their portfolio. Portfolio development is one of the most valuable assets in a designer/photographer/artists arsenal. It is significant for any-one interested or perusing this career.
The purpose of the usability test I conducted was to evaluate if any student in this field could follow and understand the set of instructions. This report will consist of the two MEELS that I chose, the method for conducting the usability test, my test results, and my final recommendation.
MEELS
The MEELS that I chose were: Memorability, Learnability. If the user is unable to remember the tutorial, it was not success-full; therefore they will not learn it. I chose these two because they go hand in hand with each other.
Methodology
This portion of my report will focus on the students that took the usability test, how the test was conducted, and the data that we obtained.
Conclusion
Recommendation

analysis of research

The idea of a tutorial is to inform or confirm certain techniques or tasks, which was conveyed in the tutorial tested. Informative and simple, the tutorial was a success. However, if it would have gone into some specific detail in regards towards the required experience. Other than lacking any design, it gets the job done.

With written and visual categories, this “website” style tutorial does not contain any navigational problems or user complications. Any one that is interested in getting a portfolio based job should view this tutorial.

references

References

Spool, J. (2005, Feb. 15). Seven Common Usability Testing Mistakes.

Retrieved April 6, 2009, Web site: http://www.uie.com/articles/

usability_testing_mistakes/

Kaufman, J. (2006, Feb. 13). Practical Usability Testing. Retrieved

April 6,2009, Web site: http://www.digitalweb.com/articles/

ia_as_an_extension_of_web_design/

Boling, E. (1995). Usability Testing for Web Sites. Retrieved April

7, 2009, Web site: http://www.indiana.edu/~iirg/ARTICLES

/usability/usability.main.html

notes from usability test

The test went as planned and bolth users were satisfied on what they watched.
It was short and rarely had to be repeated. Bolth users had a small number of questions.
They did nothing incorrectly and there were no hiccups on thier part.

Color Corection

Draft tutorial "Color-Correction"

1.Open the file you want to adjust in the program you need; photoshop, premer pro, ext.
2.open up your histogram in the widows panel, and check the exposure of the image.
3.Now under images open the brightness and contrast.
4.Bring up the contrast in-order to make the image look properly exposed.
5.Now bring down the brightness to ensure proper balance with the contrast.
6.Now in the same area you got the brightness and contrast open the curves.
7.Create an "S" curve pulling the top of the line up and the bottom of the line down, creating an "S."

Audience Analysis

Planning Guide:
Audience Analysis

Here's your description of the audience:
The intended audience would be mainly students or people in the graphic or media design industry.

Here's your description of the audience in terms of the organization they work for or their position or title:
A major newspaper or production company would need their designers to make the images or footage they use better than the way it looked.

Here's your description of the audience in terms of their occupation, profession, or field:
Any designer, artist, producer, ext. would be in the range of my audience.

Here's your description of the audience in terms of their needs for or interest in the information you plan to include in this writing project:
Every artist, beginner or experienced, should be willing to accept the fact that they might have overlooked something as small as collor-correction.

Here's how your audience will use the information in your report:
If it is something they knew, they didn't waist much time re-confirming there existing knowledge. If they didn't know, now there is something else they can add to there "bag of tricks."

Here are your thoughts on the audience's technical background in relation to your report:
The background of the audience would be, again, in design or the arts, and a majority should have a general idea of what I'm going over. Limitations might include not having the program to use this technique.

White Paper Format

I have decided to use the (Effective Websites HTML)format. This format is significant towards the tool I have chosen, because the tool is a for editing and breaking down HTML code. So if I wanted to get my point across about something gearing towards web development a website format would be ideal. I will input steps to installing with snapshots of how it looks in action.

interview questions

1.)Do you design websites on your own time or as a side job?

2.)How difficult is it to try and duplicate a style or design in websites you use or may have seen?

3.)When you look at a website, do you see something you could use?

4.)Do you see your self working as a web designer or developer?

5.)How would you use a technique or CSS trick that you need to use but don't know how to go about inputting this in your site?

Purpose, Audience, Genre

1.)The styles that are appropriate to address Prof. Santoy will be more formal and business like as apposed to a "peer to peer" or casual which would be used for TSTC students.
2.)Blogs are more of a formal or business-information form, were as micro blogs such as twitter are more playful and non-educational.
3.)Genres like memos are very easy to write and get the point that you are trying to convey across.

THIS IS MYaudience analysis draft

I will be conducting an audience analysis for the tech tool firebug. My audience will consist of Prof. Santoy, and all DMDT students, with web design being the primary focus.

Since this tool will be directed towards web design students, it must be something that that they can benefit from in school and in there career. Firebug allows anyone to download this free software onto any computer,and lets you look and the HTML code of any website. This is a very useful tool for any student and web-designer, just go to the web page that you want to decode in Mozilla Firefox and click on the tiny bug on the right hand corner of the browser.(the small bug you will see after installation)

audience analysis

The main goal and purpose of the white paper assignment is to spread the tricks and shortcuts for such a fast paced field, web development. The students that will benefit most of all from this specific tool will be the web creation and development side of the DMDT program. Before I can write my white paper I must first write my proposal to and get approval. The next step would be to research my technology tool before writing my proposal ensuring that I have the correct knowledge and information about my subject. The main goal of my proposal is to convince my audience that my choice is helpful and beneficial to them and anyone else in the same field. The audience for my
proposal is my boss so before I write my proposal I need to research and be able to answer any questions that may come up.

Purpose, Audience, Genre

I decided to follow: http://phukettsunami.blogspot.com/
which is a site directed to tsunami survivors and is generally telling stories to anyone interested or concerned about these survivors. They did not spend time enhancing the design of the site or it might be more pleasing to look at and then read.

intro

Born in Austin moved down with my parents at about 7. Got into soccer did really good but had some buddies that stayed on the island. So if I wasn’t playing soccer I would crash with them. started surfing and if you have ever surfed I mean truly surf, not just borrowed a friends old board or taken a rental out, then you know you will never stop and your life becomes full of purpose.

After I graduated High School I stopped playing soccer and moved back to Austin for a couple of years. Then started doing tattoos and traveling, mostly with friends. Other than that we mostly partied, went to shows or worked.( typical Austin life)Missing the waves and my family I came back about three or four years ago and about a year later got into the Digital Media Design program and couldn’t be more stoked.

I am currently planning on graduating this summer with an Associate’s Degree in Digital Media Design Technology. After that I plan on getting my Bachelors at UTB, but it’s not written in stone yet so I don’t know I might go and travel for a while. I just got back from a surf trip in Michoacán, Mexico and I want to surf all the places I missed out on.

Once I’m done with my schoolin’ I might move out to the west coast or maybe Hawaii. If that doesn’t pan out for me I’ll keep traveling, working on my art, our music and surfing.