Please comment on this post by giving the following information about your assignment for this module:
- the three “audiences” you are going to have for your web site;
- the characteristics of these audiences that will affect the design of your site;
- an of outline the three different designs that you will need;
- an explanation of why they must be designed that way;
These need only be rough ideas at this stage but I need the information so that I can judge that your ideas have the potential to achieve at least a pass grade in the assignment.
1. The three ‘audiences’ are:
• General Users
• Dyslexic Users
• Print Version
2. The basic characteristics of these audiences are:
• General Users: To wide topic to make it more specific. However, the consideration will be given to font size, style, contrast between the background and foreground colour, links, navigation etc.
• Dyslexic Users: They have reading difficulties.
• Print Version: Should lack pictures, images and navigation that is not necessary to be included on the printed page.
3. An of outline the three different designs:
General Users: Refer to usability considerations
Dyslexic Users: In order to make the text more readable for this particular user
• screen fonts should be rounded: Arial seems to be an appropriate font as letters are spaced so they do not touch
• space between letters should be provided: Tahoma and Verdana can be a good option for this purpose as they seem to have wider letter spacing
Print Version:
• Hide all links
• Change the font to something easier to read in print
• Change the text to black.
• Change the background to white.
• Hide the image
Zerrin
Comment by comp3092student — March 10, 2006 @ 10:37 am
Amateur Dramatics website
The three audiences that I will consider designing a website for are:
1. Young – pictures, normal font and flashy colours
Something to look at and enjoy
2. Old – larger font and minimum pictures and colour
Easy to read and find specific requirements
3. Specific Learning Difficulties; I.,e dyslexia, autism/aspergers syndrome – large font, standard colours, link to dictionary for assistance, alt tags and easy navigation
OR:
Easier to read, locate and navigate across the pages.
4. English to French version (if possible: Doesn’t really go with the purpose of the website though.)
Useful for those that read better in French than in English.
Further research to be undertaken into the individual specific learning difficulties prior to the design being considered further.
Thanks
Sharon
Comment by comp3092student — March 10, 2006 @ 11:35 am
For the purpose of my assignment In intend to use the following 3 target users:
The general user has no real distinctive needs. However, good web design practices, colours, navigation etc are their needs.
For the visually impaired user I intend to stick to the Web Access Center Guidelines on the RNIB Website (http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/code/public_rnib008789.hcsp). The major outlined differences include contrasting colours, font sizes and suitably arranging content. This does not mean just changing colours, fonts and sizes. It involves providing a flexible site with scalable items and image alternatives.
The print user wants a page that will print well so that content is preserved and can be viewed equally as well on hardcopy as softcopy. This will include ordering content so that it ‘flows’ well and prioritises information to demonstrate the key points first.
Brendon
Comment by comp3092student — March 10, 2006 @ 12:07 pm
The three different audiences I am considering are:
1.General web user- considering text size and type, good colour contrasts, ease of use for navigation
2. A print friendly page-this will get rid of any unnecessary images and navigation, change the background and text colour so it easy to read in print
3. I am unsure of the third audience, I need to complete some more research as to what user group to choose, I am considering users with visual impairments or using XML.
Zoe
Comment by comp3092student — March 10, 2006 @ 12:20 pm
I can’t really decide for definite yet, so I’ll go away and do some more research on user groups.
For the time being though, I’ll suggest:
a) “normal” site
b) printer-friendly
c) …something else! Maybe just a totally different “normal” design, using different images and fonts like the Zen Garden examples.
The test page can be viewed at http://www.nekrosoft.co.uk/test.htm
I’m quite pleased with the way the CSS files swap over : ) Badass.
Edit: This is by Tom by the way. Oops
Comment by comp3092 — March 10, 2006 @ 12:20 pm
My three Web Site audiences are:
1 General User.
This will be the normal default style for the Web Site.
2 Visually impaired user.
This style will use larger text and a better set of contrasting colours.
3 Printer friendly
This page will be a text only version of the Web Site, ideal for printing.
Paul C
Comment by comp3092student — March 10, 2006 @ 12:34 pm
The three audiences that I will consider designing my website are:
1. Dyslexia – using images to represent something with text as well, clear spaced out wording, simple and easy to follow.
2. Visually impaired or printed version
3. General user – accessibility and usibility
Sarah
Comment by comp3092student — March 10, 2006 @ 12:39 pm
My three Web Site audiences are:
General – this one is to have Style for the general web audence implemting resonable amounts of accessabilty
Peference site – this one will have a slighlty more pleasing look to it but not to everyones taste and proberly not as accessible
Print – something many people do with websites, but many brosers have trouble without frmaes/ this will put this functionality back in but will also cover more browsers and can have specific print content.
Simon B
Comment by comp3092student — March 10, 2006 @ 1:10 pm
For my website which I would like to base on movies or perhaps computer games, both of which would include news, previews and reviews, I am going to target the following users:
1) General (REGULAR) users
2) Print only users
3) Sony Playstation Portable users
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE USERS
1) General users are the standard users of the website. Because the range of general users is so wide, they have no specific needs, however good web design (see next section) will make the site as effective as possible.
2) Print only users need to print a website so that they can read the information on it, meaning that they have no need for the functionality elements on the site. Also they need the information itself to be clear and easy to read.
3) Sony’s Playstation Portable (PSP) console is designed to play games, music and videos. A recent update to the consoles software has given it internet browser functionality. Viewing web sites on the PSP is different to a standad PC means however. The main considerations that must be taken into account are the screens smaller but also wide screen format and also the lack of a mouse and keyboard have been replaced with a slower directional pad and an on-screen keyboard.
DESIGN EXPLANATIONS
1) As the general user has no real needs, the only things that must still be taken into consideration are things like font styles, font spacing, colour choices and also gensral layout of objects such as boxes or links meaning that the site is easy to read and navigate.
2) As the printed versions users only need to be able to see the information on the site there are several things that do not need to be shown or that can be minimised so that they do not waste unecessary space on the page that the user does not need to read. The font size, style and also spacing must be changed to maximise on the paper format. The best way of representing the information would be in the standard black writing on white paper format making it easier to read.
3) While the PSP’s screen is able to show a complete website apart from not supporting objects like frames and flash etc, the main problem is functionality. Because the speed of navigation is significantlly reduced without a mouse, the links should be reduced so that they are easy to find and are more general, reducing the clicking.
Also the PSP’s screen should be considred. Firstly it is small so larger font’s should be used. Secondlly the screen is in wide screen so therefore the whole site must be centred and the left and right hand sides be reduced so as to make the actual information into a wide screen format. A good example I have found of this is at popular computer games’ magazine Edge’s website which has deigned a PSP specific version of the site which thins the sites appearance in both size and links. It can be found at:
http://www.edge-online.com/psp
Comment by comp3092student — April 7, 2006 @ 1:04 pm