Weekly 1: 01/29/23

This week, I spent a good deal of time (maybe more than I should have) on the two assignments -- the HTML link project and the Five Variations project. The HTML link project was inspired by an experience losing all of my saved quotes and lyrics from high school when I dropped my phone in the ocean. I typed each out (also an exercise in revisiting old thoughts) sorted them by year. Then, I decided to "gamify" it, making the quotes that the user identified with most say something about the person. For my Five Variations project, I tried to vary the poem in as many ways I could think of to facilitate different interpretations.

I loved the readings from this week. I know that there was some argument for an almost "un-natural" computer experience. While I understand the sentiment (it's better for society, I believe, to not have people see Internet experiences as natural and replace real experiences and intuitions with digital), I don't think it's a web designer's job or incentiveto make people feel "un-natural" on their sites. I liked the concept of software as a skeuomorph and its natural "grain" as flux. That is its unique quality, and it's only logical for that to be the screen's appeal.