Experience is subjective: we live through them or perform them
Aesthetic appreciation is imbedded within history and cultural diversity.
A knowledge of aesthetics is dependent on knowledge of culture and context.
In todays society, consumers have a short attention span. this is because adverts are becoming more impactful and vital things such as software, websites, phones and all technology re constantly being refined to be as efficient as possible.
the most important part of this user experience design will be to keep that act in mind and avoid making something too complicated.
For my research I looked at various websites and apps that i have used/do use and find enjoyable to use.
The reason i am using personal experience to inform the research desicions is because i am usually the demographic popular websites hope to appeal to; a consumer, young, student female etc
I looked at apple, facebook and estudio on desktop and twitter and instagram on mobile.
Apple is a successful website as it is clean and enjoyable to use. There a moving images and animations that make the experience interactive and a completely unique website template that is extremely responsive when you scroll through, making it enjoyable just to look at.
Facebook is the complete opposite, although I use facebook a lot, the design is frankly terrible, there is so much going on that it makes it really difficult to navigate. It requires experience of the site and websites to be able to use facebook quickly but this is the worst nightmare of the older generation that are starting to use facebook and have limited knowledge. Speaking to my parents about their experience with face book they find the dashboard quote overwhelming and complicated.
Lastly estudio, estudio is very functional and has no problems in that respect but as a young art student (the only consumer of the website) it is not enjoyable to use. The design is basic, not simple, in the sense it has basic navigation features and user experience is quite rubbish. There is only very basic text on a dull background that can make it hard to look through. Something like estudio needs some aspect of enjoyability in order to help encourage students or make students life easier.
It is quite a different story with apps. Because designers/developers have no choice but to make them simple and refined due to the limited space they have. naturally this leads to creative was of designing for ultimate functionality. The best aspect of the two apps I've chose is the scroll and tap features. To use the app is to simply scroll and enjoy the content, something very low effort. Also apps tend to keep you logged in meaning that if you want to like a picture or like a tweet all you have to do is tap. often with desktops you need to log in each time you visit the site, especially if it is a shared desktop.
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