make some story
Use the Bold Vocab to make story
By now you should be pretty familiar with the vocab words of this module. So, you should be able to use them properly and creatively
- Read over the vocabulary words one more time
- Use all vocab.
- Compose and type in a story that shows you really understand each of the words
- Be creative but be sure what you type shows you understand (not just can type) the words
- Use all the vocabulary words
- Type them exactly as they are typed above (same pluralization, capitalization, tense, etc.
1 st story12 Vocabulary Words
- UX or User Experience is an umbrella term for what we do help people interact well with and get what they need from an information system.
- The ease of use of a system is called usability.
- The organization and presentation of the site’s information is called information architecture
- The term interaction design means creating the way the user and the system will go back and forth in a sort of conversation as the user decides what to do to reach her goal.
- The term graphic design describes the process of making the look and feel and layout of the system’s information and features.
- The term UI design describes the programming and logic behind the presentation of the information and features of a system.
- In the method called eye tracking, researchers look at millisecond-by-millisecond behaviors, using a machine that logs where the eyes are directed
- Usability field studies are where people are watched minute-by-minute and hour-by-hour as they use a system at home.
- Another type of research is log data analysis, where researchers look at millions of user events over the course of days, weeks, and months.
- In a quantitative analysis, researchers review and try to draw conclusions by calculations they perform on site logs.
- In a qualitative analysis, researchers watch people and try to draw conclusions from what they see the people do.
- The bounce rate is the percentage of people who immediately leave a page upon arriving.
2nd story
13 Vocabulary Words
- All machines have a way to make them do what they do: their user interface (UI).
- In speaking of user interfaces, we usually also include the display (banner, navigation, header/footer), decorations (fonts, colors, images, logos), and content (pictures, text, videos, sound).
- The controls in a UI give you the ability to perform the actions the system allows.
- It’s not always simple. Where’s the dividing line between content and control in a text-based hyperlink? One item can be both; the division breaks down pretty quickly.
- A menu allows the designer to have a lot of commands packed into a small space. However, it also means that things are hidden until the user finds the way to reveal them.
- A text box allows the user to type free text (whatever you want). Not all text will make sense or work, but you can input it.
- There are all sorts of controls that we can classify as buttons. When you push them, things happen
- There are tabs that allow the designer to have a lot of different areas available from a single screen. It is another way of packing a lot of information onto the same screen.
- On Web pages, links are usually text strings or images that will allow you to click and make something happen. Facebook likes to use them to present abilities to you.
- Some links allow mouseover behavior. When you hover the mouse above the link, the UI gives you more information about what will happen if you click the link.
- Some issues with UI: each browser works a bit differently, so any given page might not work as well in some browsers as in others. Often it’s difficult to figure out how to make things work cross- platform on different browsers as well as hardware (for example, mobile phones).
- What works for people in the UI they use is called usability.
- Greg Badros says: Dogfooding tends to result in suggestions from employees and engineers focusing on power users?it requires a constant push back toward simplicity. It’s much more common to design for yourself, but you have to keep in mind what an average user can do and will want to do.
3rd Story
11 Vocabulary Words
- The term Big Data describes the idea that the amount of data we need to deal with is huge and getting bigger in many fields.
- As a contrast to big data, which is the idea that data is expanding, Big Info is the idea that the amount of consumable media (what we have called info) is also exploding.
- To anonymize your data, they just unlink the identifier from any personally identifying information (PII). Your info can still be tied together by ID, but not tied back to you?probably.
- Most web usage data comes from a Web log. This is a piece of software that runs on a server (remember that servers create pages, browsers consume them).
- To keep track of you, a site can assign you a cookie. It is a unique ID that is tied to your IP address.
- A heat map allows a company to figure out what parts of a page are more noticed and used than others. The ?hotter? an area is the more noticed the area is. For instance, people always scan the tops of pages first. How do they figure out what people are noticing?
- Bringing all the data together into one place so it can be compared and contrasted is called data warehousing.
- Extracting useful patterns (nuggets of useful info) from large amounts of data through analysis is called data mining.
- Web Dashboards report various types of data and site statuses (the most popular page, how many people have visited the site, how long people stay on pages, etc.). Think of dashboards of a site like Facebook as a nuclear power control room versus a car dashboard. It contains a sophisticated, differentiated set of indicators.
- Facebook is data driven. That means that they try to notice everything that users are doing on the site and decide what to do next based on that.
- The number of users who click on an ad divided by the number who have it on their page is called the click-through rate.
4th story
5 Vocabulary Words
- An information model helps you understand and manage large amounts of information.
- A type is kind of information. Actual pieces of information are called information items
- An attribute is one part or aspect of an information type.
- Attributes have value patterns. They are entry formats that specify the way that values of the attribute are expected to be entered.
- Info items have relationships to other items that connect them. As, for example, when a particular person (an item) likes a particular event (another item)
5th story
3 Vocabulary Words
- The info loop is the cycle that information goes through from database to UI and back again to the database
- An action control in the user interface triggers the processing tier to run an algorithm
- The character takes on or inherits qualities of the types it is related to such as the class.
6th story
2 Vocabulary Words
- Mathew Georgiou defines gamification as the application of game mechanics to things in everyday life, such as driving a car or even how you learn.
- A simulation game tries to present a highly focused and simplified version of a real-life process.
7th story (optional)
19 Vocabulary Words
- Defined simply, information is the stuff we want to consume (music, video, sound, writing.
- Information comes in types. For example, the main type of information on Facebook is person, but they also have events, locations, and companies.
- Information types have attributes associated with them. These can be optional or a requirement for that type of information. For example, Facebook requires the person type to have a name and gender. But birthday is optional.
- Attributes have values. For example, on Facebook the person type has an attribute called ?name.? In my account the name attribute has a value of ?Bob Boiko.? Values usually have a certain pattern or form. For example, a “date of birth” attribute must have a date pattern in the value.
- An information item is one complete set of values. For example, on Facebook one complete person includes values for name (?Bob Boiko?), birthday, city of birth, likes, status updates, etc.
- The lifecycle of information is the way information is originated, used and finally retired.
- In general, information is stored in databases. Think of them like a spreadsheet or table containing columns and rows of data.
- The first way we organize is by indexing (alphabetical and/or numerical lists of names). For people, the more traditional method is by last name (Boiko, Bob); a newer way that reflects how many people think about names organizes by first name (?Bob?).
- The second way to organize information is to link it to other pieces of information. Social graphs are just a representation of all people in your social network organized by links.
- A third way to organize information is by sequences. For example Facebook can put your friends in order, indicating that you should look at one friend before another. The friend list on Facebook profile pages might be arranged by who is most important, who you contact most, or something similar (not alphabetically). Google search results are arranged by what result Google thinks you should see first.
- The fourth choice for organization is hierarchies, or outlines. Family trees or Tables of Contents are examples of this. They organize information by levels, or , you can say, by parents and children.
- Your identity on the Net, all the data that is collected about who you are, is tied together with an identifier. It is a unique token, a string, a picture, or something else that is specific only to you. This is how we distinguish between identities, and know who is who.
- We can use sequential numbers as identifiers if we never go backwards or reuse numbers. This can be simple and effective (unless you’re spanning different systems). Systems can’t keep track of other system’s assignments of numbers.
- We can use random numbers as identifiers if you have a high enough maximum identifier number and choose identifiers randomly, it can be very improbable that the same number twice will be chosen twice.
- In global unique identifiers (GUIDs) systems choose a random number from a very large pool and be almost positive that no other system at no other time has chosen the same number.
- Web addresses (which are unique identifiers for your organization) and many other identifiers on the Web are assured to be unique by the use of a directory. Someone in charge of keeps a list of all the ids people have chosen. When someone requests a new id, they check it against the list to see if it’s already been taken.
- Your online identity can be more or less true to who you actually are. You can create fake profiles, or lie about yourself, your identity is malleable. It’s not as simple as saying there is a ?real? and a ?fake? you.
- What does it mean for you to be ?data mined?? It means that someone is collecting information about you and drawing conclusions from it.
- If in the process of data mining the data collected on you is anonymized it cannot be tied back to your true identity. In that case, any conclusions that can be made are general conclusions about people and cannot be used to target you. But this does not always happen and even if it does, it may still be possible to tie the conclusions made back to you.
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