The other morning my phone said I was able to update my software to the newer version and I pressed "accept," which I now believe was one of the worst ideas I've had in the past week (besides laying in the sun for three hours today without sunscreen...and procrastinating all my homework).
After my phone had updated, everything was completely different. My home page was different, the icons were different, the apps that came with the phone functioned differently. What used to slide sideways now went up and down, what used to go up and down now went diagonally and my alarm clock was nowhere to be found. It's been a few days and it's still frustrating trying to adjust to the new design of my phone. As far as I know, all it's done is confuse me and use more battery than it did before.
Facebook seems to be doing the same thing, constantly updating and upgrading and improving, adjusting and tweaking and making everything "easier." Well, I don't find the new Facebook Timeline easier and I don't find my phone any easier to use now. It's frustrating for consumers when the design is constantly changed on them, especially when it's so drastic.
However, when magazines or newspapers change their layout or designs, is it always such a drastic switch or do they do it gradually, switching a little bit at a time so the reader has time to take it in and get used to it, rather than being bombarded all at once with a completely new magazine that's now written backwards and Chinese with invisible ink that only appears on Tuesdays. I think this technique should be applied to electronic changes as well. Just because our generation is more tech savvy than we were ten or fifteen years ago doesn't mean we want everything constantly changed. It makes it difficult and I think I speak for the majority of us when I say I don't like things too difficult. At least tell me where the alarm clock on my phone is going to be hiding before you switch everything up on me.
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label technology. Show all posts
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Procrastination, Linsanity and technology
It's always nice having an extra day off school but I don't know why I always think I'm going to use that time to do something productive, because I never do. So here I am, again, on a Thursday night, waiting for the new Jersey Shore episode while doing homework that I've had a week to do. But looking through your guys' blogs, I don't think I'm alone. ;]
In the past two weeks, I've learned more about professional basketball than I ever thought I would know. I'm not one to follow sports, and while I cheered for basketball and football, I only knew the moves that required a cheer (rebounds, free throws, touchdowns...yeah it ends about there) and even then it didn't really mean anything for me. But recently newspapers, blogs, sports pages and tweets have been blowing up with Jeremy Lin from the New York Knicks. Normally I'd brush this off, but he is literally everywhere. Turns out, he's been warming the bench on the Knicks for quite some time now, and once the two good guys Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire (had to Google how to spell his name) were out of the game because of injury and family emergency, this Lin guy goes in and totally blows everyone away with his basketball skills. I'm not kidding, he's awesome, and he's from Harvard so he's smart too. I even watched a real basketball game today and was excited about it, unreal. The Knicks played the Miami Heat and lost, but I guess they're really good so I let this one slide.
On a completely unrelated note, one of our readings was 'Rethinking the Multimedia Experience' from Poynter University. I really liked this reading for two reasons. One, because when I did my semester in Vienna, one of my courses was taught by a professor from Poynter and it was hands down one of my favourite classes - he was an incredible teacher, so now in my eyes, Poynter can do no wrong. Two, I think Ferris made a really good point, writing, "We wanted content to drive the stories, not technology, with the end goal being a richer viewing experience for our audience." I think with the constantly advancing technology, many professors and newspapers are focused more on using social media, videos, audio, getting reader comments, etc., than on the story itself. It's important to remember that using technology isn't automatically a plus, you have to use it right.
In the past two weeks, I've learned more about professional basketball than I ever thought I would know. I'm not one to follow sports, and while I cheered for basketball and football, I only knew the moves that required a cheer (rebounds, free throws, touchdowns...yeah it ends about there) and even then it didn't really mean anything for me. But recently newspapers, blogs, sports pages and tweets have been blowing up with Jeremy Lin from the New York Knicks. Normally I'd brush this off, but he is literally everywhere. Turns out, he's been warming the bench on the Knicks for quite some time now, and once the two good guys Carmelo Anthony and Amare Stoudemire (had to Google how to spell his name) were out of the game because of injury and family emergency, this Lin guy goes in and totally blows everyone away with his basketball skills. I'm not kidding, he's awesome, and he's from Harvard so he's smart too. I even watched a real basketball game today and was excited about it, unreal. The Knicks played the Miami Heat and lost, but I guess they're really good so I let this one slide.
On a completely unrelated note, one of our readings was 'Rethinking the Multimedia Experience' from Poynter University. I really liked this reading for two reasons. One, because when I did my semester in Vienna, one of my courses was taught by a professor from Poynter and it was hands down one of my favourite classes - he was an incredible teacher, so now in my eyes, Poynter can do no wrong. Two, I think Ferris made a really good point, writing, "We wanted content to drive the stories, not technology, with the end goal being a richer viewing experience for our audience." I think with the constantly advancing technology, many professors and newspapers are focused more on using social media, videos, audio, getting reader comments, etc., than on the story itself. It's important to remember that using technology isn't automatically a plus, you have to use it right.
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