- Nov 2016
-
techwritingf16.robinwharton.net techwritingf16.robinwharton.net
-
design principles were contingent on audience, situation, and rhetoric
Audience and Rhetoric are the two multimodals we've studied this semester. It makes sense that design principles should match the audience views because those are the ones designs will appeal to.
-
One partici-pant who created a category for CRAP labeled it “A handy, oversimplified,arhetorial [sic], and now overused set of principles that involve only logos andthat do not address the affective elements of design at all
Wow this participant really disliked the concept of CRAP principles. I am not sure if they took the term literal or found a fitting definition for the word.
-
Second, I would havelittle control over who agreed to participate. The possibility for spam is alwayspresent with online media.
This is another disadvantage of the online approach. A six year old child could do the online card sorting or someone who has no idea of the concept. Hence results may be not applicable. Spam being the number one inaccurate result caused by a computer is another uncontrollable participant.
-
First, in a face-to-facecard sorting exercise, the researcher often observes the participant as he or shesorts the cards and uses the talk-aloud protocol to gather further informationabout participants’ thinking during the exercise.
This is one of the disadvantages of online card sorting. Things like body language and side conversation to collect more information is not present. Even though online is faster, the more personal interaction of the interview is taken out.
-
The primary advantage of this online approach was quick and efficient accessto participants
I concur with this statement that online processing is faster than one on one encounters. Card sorting online can be done by anyone any where, making the exercise more efficient.
-
Many of these texts explicitly use the termsprinciples of design,designprinciples,orgraphic design principlesto describe their collection of principles.
The word "principle" means foundations or beginning. I can understand why the author says any specific topic that has principles in front of it mean the collections of beginning rules or the basics.
-