Article Observation on HTML and more .. (Lab 1 , Part 1, Question 3)

Turning Ideas to Reality: Brainstorming, Wireframing, Prototyping, by Jerry Cao

My first observation from the article by Jerry Cao 'Turning Ideas to Reality: Brainstorming, Wireframing, Prototyping' is its discussion on 'Informal user tests'. Cao describes how testing with 'as few as five people' can help you ascertain approximately 95% of potential design issues. I thought this was interesting because of the manner in which one can test a idea quickly with a very small sample space and learn almost all design issues about the product or idea being tested with that one single test! Pretty cool!

My second second observation on the article was about how Cao describes the breakdown on how to successfully and efficiently brainstorm. He decomposes brainstorming into six stages in which he then describes in detail. The process takes approximately one hour to complete but will help generate good solid ideas that can be (hopefully) processed and turned into reality.

10 Common Web Developer Mistakes,  by J. Michael Palermo IV


Analysing the second article by J.M.P IV, what struck me initially was how "some" web developers favour particular web browser for example, Google Chrome & Firefox, and do not write sufficient code to facilitate users of all browsers. I wanted to see the breakdown of browser usage across the internet. In the article by Craig Buckler entitled 'Browser Trends January 2015', it is clear that not everyone uses Google. In the article is shows a table displaying the statistic breakdown of the browser usage. 19.6% of people use Internet Explorer .. STILL! So if you are making a website, make sure you can facilitate all users!

My second comment on the article is on 'Old HTML'. Even today as I was coding in Python using Pycharm version 4.5.4 and then later on Codecademy ,(which any eager coding enthusiast wanting to learn and improve their own coding skills should check out!) , I found I was coming under fire from syntax errors in my code. So sure, I understand why people want to use the old and familiar coding syntax when it comes to HTML, but, to be fair, it gets updates for a reason people! Learn the new stuff! IT is an area that is always changing and as software developers, we need to also change in parallel with the industry.

Sources: http://webdesignledger.com/turning-design-ideas-into-reality-brainstorming-wireframing-prototyping?utm_content=bufferd72bd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/10-common-web-developer-mistakes--cms-24791