Friday, October 22, 2010
Email Usage
Before i came to college email usage was nonexistent for me. I did not use it or know of all the applications other people use to enhance its efficiency. Email is digital mail, instead of recieving a physical paper with a note or information inscribed on it you get that same infromation in a document form through the internet. Before i came to college i did not get very much information via email so i had much to learn about it through other users. I learned that there are email interfaces that allow you to have multiple accounts open through one program. Before i learned about that i figured everyone just had to go to their sponsered email address's website and login there to use it. Having an alternate program run your email can be very helpful and has many tools that regular website based email management does not. Another aspect of email that i have learned is very popular at u of i is email on your cell phone. It seems like everyone has a smart phone and is recieving mail instantly no matter where they are. I wish i had this feature on my phone because it would make me a much more efficient email user. Having lived at U of I for a couple months now i have come accustomed to checking email on a daily basis and have learned the easiest and most efficient methods to handle it by observing others habits.
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I'm glad you have better learned how to use email, but I'm not really all that sure what this had to do with the assignment. What did your learning do better use email have to do with user interface? The assignment was to find an engineered technology and find ways people were using it that it wasn't intended. Then we were to find a better way to design it taking that use into account. How were people using email in a way that wasn't intended? And how are you going to improve upon it?
ReplyDeleteSo it sounds like you have learned quite a bit about email. That's awesome. It is such a vital tool in communicating with others. However, this post has little to do with the prompt. You had sort of the right idea when you investigated other people's use of an engineered product. You observed the way people used email, and you discovered new ways to use email of which you had been unaware. However, you were supposed to discover ways people used email that it was not engineered for. Next, you should have identified a problem with the way that piece of technology (email) was built or constructed that limited the user. Finally, you were supposed to create a solution to that problem by offering a modification to the original design of the the engineered device. Maybe you just did not understand the prompt.
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