One topic that Ive found interesting this unit is the fact that Websites can be designed for a certain reason, but people and society can completely change the purpose of a website to fit societies needs. An example of this is in the reading Design outrage with Facebook. Facebook is originally designed so people can socially interact with each other on a social media platform. The article talks about how social media and Facebook in specific was a huge influence with the 2008 political parties and presidential election. It got turned from a platform that people talk about everyday things and stories to a huge political. The overall designing aspect of a website is really cool, especially from financial standpoint. If you want to make money off of a website then you have to design it in a way that will grab peoples attention. The article called user interface design basics was really interesting to me cause it brings back to when me and my group were working on redesign the homepage of a website. It took us a while to design it, but I didn’t realize all of the little details when even thinking about designing or in our case redesigning a web-page. The idea of designing a web page really helps with my academics, since my major is advertising communication, which has to do with marketing and logo design so having a Digital technology and culture helps me out with that aspect of my major. Also learning how to use all of the software’s that has to do with web page design is really fun to do. It also helps me with my social life, since learning how to influence people into liking what you have designed can help a person be a really good marketer and just to be a social person in general.
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