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These series of images are from the project titled “Raised by Wolves” published in 1995 which are taken by Jim Goldberg who is an American artist and photographer. Goldberg focuses on street kids who have lurched through their lives by abuse, violence and addiction. His work is exhibited throughout the world and is well known due to this project and book.

Goldberg took 6 years capturing people and getting to know them in the streets of San Francisco and Los Angeles and 10 years to publish his powerful work. He had each individual handwrite their personal issues or something about them which he printed next to their images. This is quite powerful work as it impacts people personally and emotionally due to the disturbing images and words.

The images below are taken by Daniel Beltrá. He was born in Spain in 1964. He is now based in the USA. He is best known for his which is titled “Spill”. It is exhibited throughout North America and Europe.

Beltrá likes to photograph topics that are related to the human impact on environmental issues such as global warming. As seen below, his images are shot in aerial style form which he enjoys capturing and changing views of people in a lot of aspects.

These series of images are from May 2010, when the water was polluted due to the oil spillage in BP Deepwater Horizon. From these images he showcased the destruction we are causing within beauty of this world.

This Image is called “She Brings The Rain” which is the work of Richard Mosse from 2011. This image is part of a series called Infra. 

The reason why the series is called Infra is because everything was shot using colour infrared film which is known for it’s blazing highlights and enhanced depth and contrast. As shown, the film turns greens into pink and red. Through this series, Mosse wanted to showcase the beauty and tragedy in war and destruction from a different perspective.

This image is also taken by Richard Mosse in 2017. It is called “Detail Of Moira In The Now” which is a part of the series called Heat Maps.

This was taken from a thermographic camera which was specifically designed for war. The image shows the state that the refugees and migrants are in. By using such camera, each individual stands out by being highlighted in white. This would not have been possible if he used a standard camera. This image is very eye-catching due to this particular reason and that is what Mosse was trying to achieve here so he can show the reality of what goes on inside camps.

Add entry (font toolbar, closing toolbar) According to Karafillis (2012), Designers should visually chunk functionality that is different. This is so that the UI can be clear and tidy. However, a lot of users did get quite lost with the font toolbar, as it felt long and too repetitive. For the next iteration I will try to cut down the time for users to access deeper features in the app, so that users won’t need to break up their typing or their train of thought to access an extra part of the app.

Statistics (visibility?) I think that when getting participants to go through the stats feature, there were a bit confused due to the visibility of certain items. Nodder (2013), suggests that people prefer firm solutions rather an ambiguity. Having more visual feedback could allow users to feel more secure with what they’re doing

Dream journal (other tracking features?) According to Koester (2018), people track certain aspects of their lives to seek motivation for change and self improvement. Here are some principal reasons behind why some people track certain aspects of their lives:

self-healing = becoming healthier

self-discipline = rewarding aspects of it

self-design = control and optimize “yourself”

self-association = associated with movement

self-entertainment = entertainment value

There is a relationship between the number of motivations and how much they track. The more motivation on a single factor, leads to more tracking activity.

What do people track?

Activity & Fitness

Data Collection

Diet

Goals

Habits

Health

Heart

Media Consumption

Mind & Cognition

Mood

Sleep

Tally

Time

Wealth or money

Personalisation People like personalisation because it makes them feel more personally involved with the product, and therefore will feel emotionally invested to use the app, Nunwood (n.d.). I had the idea of users being able to change colours/themes/etc, but I  think that showing this during the testing would be good as it shows them the steps to take that action.

Add entry – name of button or page? There are many ways to do the similar tasks in the app, to speed up the process. The wording for these processes for consistency. However, participants got confused with the wording. Due to the memory work that users are doing, they remember the name of a process and associate that name to the process. However, this got confusing with the users.

Passwords & Lock Diary – change name? Much like the above, participants got confused with the task name and the section name.

Week view – left to right days I was unsure whether to lay out the days left to right, or top to bottom. A participant suggested left to right because that’s how we read (in the western world).

Syncing process – look into this To provide a sense of security I seemed to have missed a couple steps before the participant could allow the app to sync the account.

Confirmation Screens & Drafts This was something I was meant to implement as a way to give the user a safety net when they’re about to do something they might not mean to do. This was also mentioned in the Heuristic Test that I did not implement.

Design: some minor changes with the visual design

Radio/Checklist – especially around the syncing accounts

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During the lecture this week, Peter mentioned how important the ‘Gutenberg Bible’ was in passing. My interest was peaked by this, why was this bible so different from the bibles that had been created previously? So I decided that more information was needed.

The Gutenberg Bible also goes by ‘Mazarin Bible’ and ‘42 lined bible’ and it was the first book in history to be printed using only moveable type. Johannes Gutenberg created this bible in approximately 1445, although when I cross referenced this date with a few sources I found that there was a bit of indetermination around when it was in fact published, some saying that it was in fact published 10 years later. No matter the time that it was published within that period, the techniques used to create this bible were unheard of. 

My initial question wondering why these bibles were so different was answered because before this publication, a bible that was this standard and size would have taken months or even years to create. This metal type process was allowed by this revolutionary invention by Gutenberg which allowed people to make copies of their creations in a fraction of the time. The care and expense that people were willing to give and pay were something of a shock to me,  the equivalent of three years of a clerk's wages was not a price I would think many would be willing to pay! There are as many as 49 copies of the bible being known to exist today, I am left wonder how many were originally paid for over 600 years ago. 

Before the creation of this bible Gutenberg experimented with his new invention. Creating smaller things on single sheets of paper as well as a latin grammar book. His printing press is believed to be derived from a wine press, but arguably the most revolutionary step forward he took was the creation of a hand casting. This invention allowed for infinite numbers of letters to be created from molten alloy, then arranged in lines to form the mirror image of the final page.

A copy of this bible is recognised as being particularly special, it is known as the ‘Ransom Center’ copy. This copy is printed on handmade paper that was imported from Italy, watermarked on each page with animal emblems in order for the papers quality to be evident when held up to the light. The ink that was used was also different from the egg and varnish based ink that had been used on other copies. An oil-based ink meant that the process and outcome of the print are vastly improved. This copy also had particularly exceptional elements added to it. Many of the copies of the book had elements that were added after by hand, such as rubbings, colouring of starting letters, and gold leaf paintings of the starting letters (only within the first volume). This Ransom Center copy also contains notes as to what parts of the passages should be read dependant on what day for church services.  

Resources:

Gutenberg Bible. (2016). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/topic/Gutenberg-Bible https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible

http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/exhibitions/permanent/gutenbergbible/ransomcenter/#top

http://www.britannica.com/biography/Johannes-Gutenberg