tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5683379683924846366.post871432449056506236..comments2013-04-24T13:05:14.659-07:00Comments on Martin Watts Technical Blog: Week 7: Visual and Information DesignMartinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14439983494298146370noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5683379683924846366.post-39476831373793586142013-03-11T11:59:27.924-07:002013-03-11T11:59:27.924-07:00here's a video overview http://www.youtube.com...here's a video overview <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S0045Md0mQ" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S0045Md0mQ</a>Sam Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788506730233381803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5683379683924846366.post-50656697419392859222013-03-11T09:27:04.842-07:002013-03-11T09:27:04.842-07:00Great work throughout here Martin. However I had ...Great work throughout here Martin. However I had really been hoping for four individual blog posts, so that I could comment on each of them separately. So sorry we didn't manage to connect over the weekend - various technical challenges I'll try to explain in a video, anyway, taking each in turn.<br /><br />1) Lovely choice of article from Beautiful Pixels. The paragraph length doesn't seem so long to me, but perhaps that's the screen I'm reading on and font size, although I have to admit that scanning it I didn't read them in their entirety :-) Also if it was me I would have made the first hyperlink to the permalink of the blog, and the second "over" be a direct link to the app, since I initially assumed it was and thought you hadn't included a permalink to the actual blog post; but that's a relatively minor gripe. Great app!<br /><br />2) Well done with hooking up with Jade for the Balsamiq evaluation, however I had specified that you should try and hook up with a programmer if you were a designer and vice versa. We'll try again this coming week. Also, I note that again you rated the issues purely in terms of severity and didn't classify them in terms of the type of heuristic violation. I guess I need to wait for Jade to post the video to look more closely at your evaluation?<br /><br />3) Great to see you find two apps similar to your own. Hopefully they give you some ideas. Any particular reason for selecting these two? I had also been hoping for a heuristic evaluation with issue severity and category, with perhaps screen shots of the apps. <a href="http://www.howtogeek.com/121133/how-to-take-screenshots-on-android-devices-since-4.0/" rel="nofollow">http://www.howtogeek.com/121133/how-to-take-screenshots-on-android-devices-since-4.0/</a>, but well done for including links to the apps and their logos. In Best Jokes ever it took me a while to find the category function, but I like having jokes on the first page. Would be great if there was one uber-database these were all plugged into ...<br /><br />4) Great to see you selecting options from the mobile design pattern gallery, but I had been hoping that you would drill down to choose individual examples of things you would like within the <a href="http://www.mobiledesignpatterngallery.com/mobile-patterns-details.php?colid=65438029-72157627607680275&setid=72157627762097550&s=2" rel="nofollow">list menu</a>, and perhaps include a screen shot of a design you liked: <a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6111/6267859326_cc49627294.jpg" rel="nofollow">individual example of list menu</a><br /><br />Lots of great work here - hope I don't come across as too negative - mostly it's these communication issues we are working on - many thanks for all your efforts.Sam Josephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10788506730233381803noreply@blogger.com