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Week 8 Blog Post

Throughout this course I have learned tremendous amounts of things. I learned the most from the discussion posts because the discussion posts allowed me to learn how other people feel about certain topics. I learned a lot about how to analysis each website to thing how it can be improved. I'm at a weird point now where if I visit any page rather than using it I first start analysis what I like and what can be changed on the site to be improved. I love this habit because it makes me aware. This skill actually has become useful for me cause I do part time user testing surveys and part of the job is to test websites to improve them, so this class has definitely helped me in that job. Those are just a few things that I learned, but it was an amazing class that will shape my entire future.
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Week 7 Blog Post- final project

I currently am taking 3 classes and working my job as a youtuber everyday. My job requires me to playing 8 hours of a video game and streaming everyday and creating videos for that game every single day. The videos take a really long time to make because I have to brain storm the video ideas and spend hours playing the game to get the content then I have to edit the content which takes another few hours. Since I have to do all this work I can only work on my final project only 2 hours a day for the past week. My time management skills is the reason why I can even finish this final project. I have been looking at the Mercer website right now and analyzing it. Tomorrow I'm going to be creating a PowerPoint presentation for the website to help improve the page.
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Week 6 Blog Post site structure

While creating the site structure and task list for my website, I had to look at many other ecommerce sites to observe how they are structured. Most ecommerce sites operate in a similar manner: people create an account, view a product they like, and then make a purchase. I wanted to follow a similar model, but I aimed to be unique with the checkout process. Most ecommerce sites typically require users to create an account to purchase a product, which can be annoying for many people, including myself. For my site, users will not need to create an account; they can simply buy the product anonymously. This was one decision I made during the planning phase of my site. While most aspects of the website are similar to other sites, such as the product page and home page, the main difference will be in the design. I plan to make it very appealing to a younger audience. That's what I've been focusing on and working on this week.
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Week 5 Blog Post - midterm

 While doing the midterm, one problem I faced was choosing which websites to compare. I thought very hard about this for days. I had a list of sites to choose from such as, Robinhood and Webull, kick and twitch, YouTube and dailymotion. I ended up choosing YouTube and Dailymotion because I have used YouTube for over 12 years and now I myself am a Youtuber. I also see massive flaws with dailymotion. If dailymotion fixed those flaws i have no doubt in my mind it could become way bigger and take market share from YouTube. There were also other problems I faced while doing the midterm such as creating an account for Dailymotion and how much daily motion has changed since the past. Now that I look at daily motion it seems like they aren't even trying to compete with YouTube anymore they are competing with Tiktok more. I believe this to be true because of how their home page. Their homepage in the past showed videos that you can click on to view, but now on their home page it auto plays ...
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Week 4 - The Design of Everyday Things"

 I was born in India and I lived there for 6 years of my life and one thing that I have noticed is how crowded trains are in India. For example trains in India are so crowded that people literally sit on top of the moving train just so they can travel. I believe this to be a massive design flaw of the train. I believe if trains can eliminate first class cabins and replace them with normal cabin this will solve the problem of not enough being seats on trains. Another way this issue can be solved is by simply having more cabins and making the train longer this can easily be done but for some reason countries don't do this.
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Week 3- planning and conducting interview

 I have not completed my interview yet, but I plan on completing it soon and this is how I will go about planning and conducting it. My planning phase would include me coming up with topic to talk about. For example, if a user is going to be interacting with a website. I plan on asking them do you believe the website looks good color wise? Do you think this website looks simple but efficient? Do you understand what this website is about? If I encounter any challenges such as a user not being able to give me good advice then I will most likely ask someone else for a second opinion. I think a lot of people tend to just say "yes the website was good" so they don't hurt people feelings. This is why before I interview I'm going to tell them the website was not made by me so they can't think of hurting my feelings.  Interviewing people is a good way to come up with design opportunities because people know what they want and most people are hardwired the same, so asking ...
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Week 2 Blog Post

 Website design is one of the most important factors in user experience. From personal experience if I see a website that looks horrible or is too complex I stop using it off the bat, and I believe most people are like this. People prefer simple sleek looking websites which is why websites like Amazon, Apple, and Facebook have the same simple design for their websites. It's because those websites work and people love it because of how simple they are. If I create a website I will make sure it has a very simple and clean design because of those reasons.
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