Good Design - http://au.yahoo.com/?p=us
I think this website has a good
design because it exhibits excellent layout which make visitors want to pay
attention to what is on the website. Yahoo website has great categorize menu
that the font is also clear and bold, makes your eyes comfortable to read and
not offend the eyes. The main section of the webpage has "news and features"
contains updated news and popular headlines of each day. What I like about this
website is that other part of the website are also categorized into each section
of that headings.
Bad Design - http://www.good-tutorials.com/
Although
the website has great photoshop tutorial, I think this website has bad design
because it has small menu and unbold font which make the it doesn't look like
the menu. There are too many advertisements which eliminates the purpose of the
website because visitor might think that this is not the website for photoshop
tutorial.
Reply Message by Masanori Tanaka:
I agree with u. The menus dont look like menu buttons on www.good-tutorials.com. They are too small.
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What is Interaction Design?
Interaction Design is the process of invention of an interface for the user to interact with and respond to, in this case computer user. It also defines the behavior of the user in response to an object or a system artifact.
- Air-traffic Control
- Safety, in this case, Air-traffic Control routine is probably the most important data. If this routine data leaked out, it will be really bad that Terrorist attack might happen.
- Ticket-booking software for travel agents
- Utility and Effectiveness, ticket-booking software needs system that provides many services, such as purchasing, database, connectivity to main server, instruction for new agents, and etc, to achieve its booking goal.
- Reservation software for airline agents at the luggage check-in counter
- Efficiency is the most important goal for Reservation software because passengers will line up to check-in their luggage. Users of the software need to accomplish their work quickly to ease the passenger’s queue.
- Flight simulators to train airline pilots
- Usability comes in place for flight simulators to train airline pilots. Ease of learning and use can help pilot trainees simulates aircraft situation in make-up scenario and like-real situation in which the pilots can understand the all functions and features of the cockpit.
- An adoption of a flight simulator as a video game for home use
- Appeal, when it comes to gaming, its first impression when you play the game is the most important thing the video game maker had to considered. For its long term satisfaction, the game maker has to make the game that is very look alike real flight simulator.
News item of a story occurring with the past year that described the usability issue that caused problems.
a) Airspace control north-west of Canberra was unwatched, which in result, forced the pilot to fly around it. Shortage of air traffic controllers because of their current wage negotiations despite the increase of traffic in Australia airspace caused more than 140 interruptions to air traffic control services. Other major problems are skills shortage, high fuel costs, global economic downturn, and the environment.
b) Link: http://news.smh.com.au/national/air-traffic-control-body-inefficient-20080730-3n6w.html
c) There are too many air traffic control system that does not match the number of its air traffic controllers, which cause it to be unwatched and forced the pilot to fly around the Airspace control.
