Book on creating a great slideshow for your presentation:
Slide:ology The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte
Audience Needs Map
Nancy Duarte talks at TEDx East
http://www.duarte.com/books/reading-list/
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Guest Speaker: Peter McDermott
Great information in our IMD405- Internet Marketing Class. We had guest speaker Peter McDermott give us information on Google +. Peter started out with Google + in its infancy and has almost 40,000 followers.
Peter really encouraged us to try Google hangouts and let us know this is a great way to build your brand.
Psychology of Web Design
Smashing Magazine Book # 2
What does the author mean when he says people are social animals?
It is important for people to be social and will use whatever is around to do this including technology. People want to interact with other people especially the people they have something in common with.
Describe some characteristics of user behavior as it pertains to websites.
Taking to long to load is like being ignored. Asking for personal information to soon invades privacy. If it does not save our information from last session we feel like we are forgotten.
Give an example of looking vs. seeing.
On a cell phone and not seeing the clown on a unicycle.
Summarize the article and give your opinion of the article.
People are social and will use any means to be social and they make decisions unconsciously due to different areas of the brain. We look to others for validation or how to act. When viewing a website we either trust it or not immediately depending on how it looks. People need goals to be motivated and the closer the goal seems to be the longer the person tries to reach it. People are lazy and easily make mistakes and designers need to plan for this. People think they know how a product will work before using it and even when they appear to look at something they may not actually see it.
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