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Week 10

Meghan Jeffery 995533739 Aly Landre 996615989 Bart Zagorowicz 992285807 David Kidon 995462128 Amadeo Ravettino 992225114

I don’t believe that the show gives an accurate depiction of what North American housing/design is like. In reality people are not gluing straw to their walls or placing the furniture on the ceiling these are not the traditional design norms that the majority of North Americans follow. Such elements that are normally followed include the layout of the rooms including the clearances, such as the distance of the coffee table to the sofa, or the visibility of the tv for viewing. Ex. Don’t put a chair in-front of a doorway. People live in homes for practicality and comfort as well as an overall pleasing aesthetic space. We feel that the show is playing on the shock factor. The designers may want to think about practicality in the design of the spaces. This would give a better depiction of what typical Western housing would be like. In the “Makeover” shows universal design is not implemented. Designers are not thinking about equitable use or designing for people with diverse disabilities. While some designs may have a few factors where design is improved, it is more a fluke than intentional

Week 9 Vancouver 2010 Website (www.vancouver2010.com)

-fairly easy navigation, understandable -pictures are visually appealing, very representative of the tab by showcasing the title of the sport you wish to choose, along with the picture that shows the sport
 * 1.Build a good navigation structure**

- each button gets highlighted when you drag your mouse across the button, which offers positive feedback -when you click on a tab, opens up a new menu in a different color
 * 2.Give feedback to user actions**

- You are able to navigate through the site by using the tab button, but unfortunately there are many buttons and it gets very overwhelming. Once you are halfway through the page, the highlighted button you are on gets lost amongst the business of the site
 * 3. Help users navigate efficiently through keyboard**

- the colour contrast is great where there is text, because the text is white and it is on top of a darker background (blue or green). This makes it easy to see, and visually pleasing. Unfortunately some of the site has green and blue overlapping, where the hues are very similar which makes it difficult to understand the contrast in buttons and title headings
 * 4. Color contrast**

- there is a screen reader that will read everywhere you drag your mouse, which assists in someone that is visually disabled - unfortunately the middle part of the site is created using Flash, which is detrimental to visually disabled because the screen reader is not able to read these headlines
 * 5. Accessibility for visually disabled**

- the site ensures that anywhere you drag your mouse that is clickable, the button will highlight in a different colour - some of the less important buttons are unrecognizable as a button, and do not highlight nor change colour. This is very confusing to the user in understanding where to click or where not to click - each button is very different. This is detrimental to understanding which words on the sites are buttons of just text
 * 6. Mouse Movement**


 * Overall Impression of the Site**

We found the site to be very accessible for individuals, and the text to picture addition was a nice touch. Unfortunately the site is very busy and very colourful, which makes the site somewhat clustered and confusing. The flash in the middle section of the site is also distracting, but it adds a nice visual element to someone who has no disabilities.

Meghan Jeffery 995533739 Aly Landre 996615989 Bart Zagorowicz 992285807 David Kidon 995462128 Amadeo Ravettino 992225114

Week 8

Meghan Jeffery 995533739 Bart Zagorowicz 992285807 David Kidon 995462128 Amadeo Ravettino 992225114

Week 6 Meghan Jeffery 995533739 Aly Landre 996615989 Bart Zagorowicz 992285807 David Kidon 995462128 Amadeo Ravettino 992225114

CHANGES TO BE IMPLEMENTED: The site should be made bilingual to reach the masses. So we would include options for both french, spanish and chinese. We would also approve upon the over all appearance to make it more visually appealing.

Week 5

Meghan Jeffery 995533739 Aly Landre 996615989 Bart Zagorowicz 992285807 David Kidon 995462128 Amadeo Ravettino 992225114

We chose to produce a simple ordering system. We noticed that most websites (eg. pizza pizza) were too complex, time consuming and required too much information. We just included the necessities. Name, phone, address and postal code.

Week 4


 * PART 1**

Bart Zagorowicz 992285807 David Kidon 995462128 Amadeo Ravettino 992225114

The first example in a software app that is misleading in it's design is the cell phone's navigational feature. In reality you don't really know how it works or what things are designated to the different arrows. It gives the impression that it's touch sensitive even though most are not.

Our second example is of icons on cell phones that don't really indicate what they are, or what their function is. The cell phone we used as a example was a Samsung. It had a small icon on the top of the screen resembling a snow flake. What does this mean?


 * PART 2**

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