Stephanie Whitsett

Jan 27
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Post #4 – Stephanie Whitsett

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Chapter 4 reading was all about Inheritance, and it is just like genes and how we inherit things from our parents, only it’s CSS. Basically CSS properties applied to one tag are also applied to any tags nested inside of that larger tag. It is also passed through “generations” so if there are multiple tags inside of one tag they will all receive that property.

 

Chris Ridson is known for his interaction, UX, and multi-channel experience design. While reading his website it was amazing to learn how much a person can do with their career. Chris has done almost everything from teaching to being a lead design director and many different companies.

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Jan 25
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Post #3 – Stephanie Whitsett

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Information Architecture is as simple as helping users understand where they are, what they’ve found, what around and what to expect on an user interface!

Adaptivepath.org is a pioneer in User Experience design and Information Architecture they have been designing for the human experience for over 14 years. They have been helping organizations, companies, business, and people improve their products for the consumer, through a human-based approach. Adaptivepath.org’s homepage states “Our mission is to inspire, enable, and involve others to create great human experiences that impact the community and transform us all.” Their website contains guides that have talks and different articles that help you understand them better. Their top ways of doing this are:

  • Service Design – “harmonizes every component of a service for a coherent, efficient, and enjoyable experience.”
  • Experience Strategy – “is finding and envisioning the experiences that should exist in the world.”
  • Design Management – “is the shepherding of efforts and resources to maintain the big-picture vision and health of a project itself.”

Their other guides are : Design Facilitation, Design Leadership, Design Research, Design Strategy, Experience Mapping, Visual Design.

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Jan 20
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Post #2 – Stephanie Whitsett

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While finishing codeacademy, I realized how much it helped after going over the readings again.

Now after doing more codeacademy, and going over the readings I’m finally starting to understand all of this.

Chapter 2 of the missing manual begins to go over the basics of CSS, I learned a style is made up of 2 elements: the selector, which is the webpage element that the browser formats and the declaration block, which is the actual formatting instructions. For example, selectors can be headline, paragraph, photo, etc. While a declaration tells that selector to do something ex. (make it blue, add red border, etc.)

I learned style sheets can be Internal or External

Internal style sheet: collection of styles that’s part of the web page’s code. It appears between opening and closing HTML style tag.

External style sheet: a text file containing all your CSS rules, never contains HTML

Overall, the basics of CSS are starting to make sense to me.

 

My Term WireFrames is like a skeleton guide for all websites. They set up the space for awesome design basically.

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Jan 12
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Post #1 – Stephanie Whitsett

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Well, my first thoughts after reading chapter one of The Missing Manual is “whoa”. I read it slow and steady and half of it did not make any sense to me considering I’ve never coded, used HTML or css before, (maybe a little HTML during my myspace days in the 8th grade) but thats it. Looks like after reading chapter one I have to do a lot of outside class learning just to understand the basics of whatever in the hell he is saying in that book. This makes me extremely nervous to be honest, so it looks like I have a lot of work to do.

 

But on another note, I really want to learn this and I have a feeling I might be good at it, so I’m going to try really hard.