Interface Designer?
August 28th, 2007I was talking to a good mate of mine who works in web dev and we shared a little giggle earlier on, here is an exert from the conversation:
“…I got the best CV sent to me yesterday. This was for an Interface Design position - check out his personal site (that he encouraged me to visit in his covering letter): http://www.nicephotog-jvm.net/ OMFG”.
What is even worse is the fact that he was sent over to my friend by a recruitment agency, if that’s the best they had to offer him then god help us! Here’s a screen shot of the guy’s site:
hey dude. i was interested to see the guy’s site and was actually quite impressed. it takes considerable originality to creatively construct a “bad” looking site. did it not occur to you that in order to differentiate himself, he deliberately made the site to look in bad taste. I’m sure that given a decent design brief, he could actually create a more ’standard’ looking site. i don’t know, maybe, I’m reading too much into it, but homogenised sites all look the same and all this guy is doing is trying to be distinctive. hey, it made you take notice….
Posted on: August 29th, 2007 at 9:09 pmhahah - only joking. that site is just shite. my bad!
Posted on: August 29th, 2007 at 9:13 pmIn essense the site does have a gauche’ colour effect to it of i believe
Posted on: September 18th, 2007 at 6:38 amgets compared to a style of advertising involving simplified colouring
in the sixties called “pop art”.
If you take a look at my site-blaster.js page you will see what i am more
about and inclusive my web art information page. I do not believe that
the designs in the site-blaster.js page are for anything except
modifying to create a style that appeals.
http://www.nicephotog-jvm.net/nicephotogs-site-blaster.js.html
User interfaces themselves in HTML however are for bound to
computing hardware events and often require back-end to front-end
server programming to service the many browser types and OS’s of the
final distinguishment is the server side language in use by the hosting.
I am a web programmer more than a designer and i dispute it
categorically defies sensibility for the placement and usage because
in holding up partner information spasmodically the page requires
some simplications to modify quickly and keep valid.
User interface design is also an analyst action of placement and effect
as much for the final design appearence because you are attempting to
assist a user amoung many variable reactions to client environment
from language use and available knowledge of audience type then
bound to final data collection requirements that can have for most
finite quantities types failures.
Waffle waffle waffle, user-centred design is what it is all about, and that site is definitely not user-friendly and the design (or lack of it) just makes my eyes hurt. Even if it is a deliberate attempt to attain a certain ’style’, it still doesn’t pull off that style very convincingly. Oh well, all the best!
Posted on: September 18th, 2007 at 9:42 amBeauty is in the eye of the beholder! Your statement is “defamation”
and unfounded! The below will explain to you the principles of something you obviously are not effectively trained at or experienced.
Are you saying that alike the problem, that writing a page for SEO, is to
a search engine, the same as GUI components to user-centered design.
Firstly, thats only the domain pointer page and that is the most common entry point to any site statistically. So for most people whom wish to use [now get this piece of rationale!] a site and many for the first time, What would they “want” to have user-centrically available!.
Well, now take a look at my site!
The first pieces rendered to a client page bya browser are centered at
all the parts required them to use the site for any standard navigational reasons for information. Inclusive! is the ability to full text search.
The page also does not contain any actually required dynamic scripting
to allow any reasonabley well constructed HTML user-agents to load it
with no errors(why w3c.org valid parsed html4 is a problem to you i
do not know).
There are standard html4 anchor links to all the major required
navigational data equipment at eye level of the screen. They are the
” ‘text’ site map page” of all the impotant and lesser important pages
of the site.
The direct contact form page link.
The domain name banner image, so people know where they have
landed.
There is a direct page link to a standard html4 page to tell/warn surfers of some of the peculiarities of the site. That link itself is highlighted to
give the entering surfers a better chance to read information that will
give them less trouble at use of the site.
There is also a standard HTML4 marquee banner that warns surfers
multi-media is present in the site and will correct require software to
operate it.
That is backed up by a direct link to a page containing information and
direct links to the proprietry software sites and their add-in downloads.
Finally, the main pages of context to the site are listed in a table with
a short one line of explaination of the information subject contents of
the page.
No expert in web programming or web designing would disagree with
me about the methods used as by me in my pages being good
user-centered design.
You can go back to jamming peoples browsers with FLASH and the
Posted on: September 20th, 2007 at 9:09 amloading time and its heavy problem of adding into the browser software
p/browser because you probably cannot write html let alone valid html.
While FLASH is a legitimate technology, my opinion is it is only good for
banner animation and .flv audio movies in web pages.
Yeah I take all the points on board but ultimately the site looks like something I produced under strain after a dodgy curry.
Posted on: September 20th, 2007 at 9:18 amIt would seem as though I have hit a nerve here. I would love to go into great depth to try and explain my rationale to you, but I am busy at work. So will keep it short and sweet. I am not trying to put a black mark on your character dude, so take it easy.
Before you get all shirty and think that I am crap at coding, etc etc I would suggest you check out http://www.hungrybrowser.co.uk/ and actually read a little bit before you brand me a flash advocate, which I couldn’t be further from. Web standards my friend, go dig it!
Also 6 years and 35 projects later, combined with the fact that I get 2 to 3 calls everyday from recruitment consultants must be testament to the fact that I am doing something right, wouldn’t you say!
Anyway I best get back to doing my job as an Information Architect, and leave you to code up some lovely HTML 4.
Peace!
Posted on: September 20th, 2007 at 9:28 amYou just hit another nerve with me there! That being recruitment
Posted on: September 22nd, 2007 at 6:59 amconsultants, they often have an it degree but actually do not properly
comprehend the inner depths of programming, they’re more alike a
big index of names and summaries of technologies that can click a
mouse in any OS. Programming being text and various training
languages they are given to use or real languages used only cover
fundamentals it appears, most i have talked to do not comprehend
even what they are told to name.
I have written more than 4000 lines of Java2 some of it a login JDBC
to MySQL web application. Of javascript i can Use AJAX for file pickup
in Mozilla.org browsers, Opera and IE(no Objective C for Mac).
There are around the same in PERL and PHP code. Inclusive is the
manipulation of the request and response headers from the server
to the client(w3c.org and NSCA).
These are the top level web technologies for analyst interactive
programming to assist a user and machine. But at some point i do
not find catering for older or off-beat browsers(user-agents) a
goodpoint or people will not take up new technologies and miss
out on great assistance.
Of web specifications, the w3c and the WCAG1,2 with Web2 do hold
meaning, but to save time for myself anything is only applied to
buddy OS’s and the OS more than 70% of the world uses to surf.
I allow no excuse in any context for my front pages style, It’s
gauche’ but simple enough to fulfill the fundamentals of only
holding a small and simple quantity of information because it is to
operate more alike one giant button to click in effect, than a place
to stay around to find everything ever wanted of a site.