Best User Centered Design | Pixlr

I heart Pixlr..........

Do you interested in photo editing? Owh I do. I use Pixlr.com for the great effects on my photographs. Last week I learned many things about Pervasive Themes in IT, and some of them are User Centered Design. And here we go, in my personal view, the application system which has the best user centeredness is Pixlr.com /wahaha

Why I say so?

Previously I used number of online photo editor, but once I found Pixlr, it caught my heart and I fell in love with it. Pixlr is designed for the user in completing their task in photo editing. If you a first timer and interested in photo edit, feel free to use this application because it is provides adequate navigation mechanism.

The interface is clean and the options are there when you need them. The options to edit, share, save, so forth, using Pixlr’s tools, are immediately provided. It is reduce unnecessary mental effort by the user. Trust me, it will not give you tense but yet give you satisfaction for the great effect on your photographs.

And one more thing! From the design perspective, this tool is brilliant. It anticipates and reacts to needs. That’s mean, its present information clearly by using simple and natural dialogue.  Among many of online image editor, I really agree that Pixlr has the great key principle in user centered design :D

This is what Pixlr give me<3/hmm

Salomon Default Effect

Borg Vintage Effect With Bokeh Overlay

Roxy Subtle Effect with Stripe Overlay

Color-splash Effect

Stop comparing! We are completing each other.

Everyone does have dreams. So do I. Instead of having one dream, I have several dreams. Thinking on how to give back to my country and community is my concern. My humaniversity (AiU), the university that I come from influence me a lot about humanity.

But now, I have specified my dreams. I’m taking IT as my course; there are several professions in my mind: System Analyst, IT Consultant, IT Architect and even thinking to continue my dream to academic related field. 

                  

Okay, but I wonder why do people always comparing; I think that’s one of human nature perhaps. There is a statement about:

“Most CS people laugh at MIS/IT people, “and “MIS/IT people make more money and manage the CS folks.”

What I would like to say about this view is that it is the nature of us to completing each other. A wise man once said that; better live in a whole rather than a part. What does it means? It probably means that we should not underestimate of other people ability. We should not laugh and make fun. Small things sometimes make big changes! IT and CS, CS and IT, the world needs both!

Do you like the feeling of inhaling the fresh air in the morning? Do you realize of human and plant cycle? O2 and CO2 cycle? I told you that we are completing each other ;)

Human-plant relation. We and them benefited both<3

                                       

Computing Disciplines -What Textbook Don't Tell You ;)

 

”While you have this day, fill it with life”.

Hello world! Everyday feeling excited to fill in something on this blog. On this post, I would like to share some information about Computing Disciplines. I studied this topic on week two of my CTT1013 course, my lecturer provided me with slides and I’m done self study with it. I hope this writing would be a symbiosis interaction between you and me that going to benefit both ;)

First of all, I would like to ask you, is Computer Science is a philosophy? Or is it science, mathematics, engineering, art? Other? If you can sense of the discipline, how would Computer Science fit into its meaning? 

Generally, there are five type of computing discipline:

1.    Computer Science

2.    Software Engineering

3.    Information System

4.    Cognitive Science

5.    Computer Engineering

Come on, more is better than less. Instead of focusing on Computer Science only lets broaden our knowledge on knowing the difference of this all computing disciplines. 

Computer science generally is the mother of all computational disciplines that covers the applied mathematics, whereas Computer Engineering is more focusing the study of hardware, software, communications, and the interaction among them.

                    

   

So what is software engineering now? Let’s define this term with illustrations because I believe that picture explains thousand meanings.

                         

                           

Now, Information System and Cognitive Science left. Up up here we go, let’s get to know things behind this principles.

Information System is an academic field, why? Because it encompasses in two broad area. What is that?

1.    The information systems function

2.    Systems development

The last principle is Cognitive Science. The fundamental concept of cognitive science is 

"that thinking can best be understood in terms of representational structures in the mind and computational procedures that operate on those structures".

Walla! Computing discipline explanation accomplish!! :D Last but not least, i included "Computing Discipline at a Glance".

                          

P/s: GoogleFacts: Just to buy an iPhone and iPad 2, a 17 years old Chinese student sold his one kidney.

Internet | Me

·         How does internet affect my life as a student?

News Feed, One Laptop Per Child.

Attention fella!

Vision is the state of seeing. Vision is a long term planning that going to benefit the party involved. Vision of laptop per child (OLPC) is a Cambridge-based foundation. The idea is to distribute educational device for use in developing countries (Wikipedia: Vision of Laptop per Child, 2012).

When talking about this news, there are a lot of thoughts that coming through my head. 4W1H questions: what, when, where, why and how the pros and cons about this planning. As we know that laptop is very useful. It does not care whether you got it for free, as a gift; buy it through cash payment or loans you just will find it more useful if you gets it through hardship. You will be appreciate and use it to educational purposes. Let’s together do this vision successful one. 

"Whenever you live, in every part of the world, laptop will enhance your academic skills"

In heading through this vision, parents need to play vital role to ensure their children use the laptop in a good purposes. Strictly block pornography and gaming sites. Children are meant to be curiosity ones, this attitude sometimes lead them to a bad side of live. So dear parents and whoever going to be future parents, watchout! :D

Hello readers, wanna know more about this news, do click here!

These are some illustrations response to One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) vision. Take a look at it.

                               

Information Technology | Society

Indeed, that the development of IT influenced the common traditions of a society. There are many ways IT influenced us. If we looking through the history of IT from long time ago, it has proven that human being making sense to find many ways to live in practical way. As example, the invention of “abacus” in pre mechanical era was a great invention to help them in calculation.  I read an article that written by Konsbruck Robert Lee entitled Impacts of Information Technology on Society in the new Century, it is informative article on how IT making sense on this globalization era. Full article of Konsbruck click here :)

What IT serve us?

• Headways in Business Models, Commerce and Market Structure
• Advancement in Workplace and Labour Market
• Improvement in Education
• Enhance Private Life and Society

 

What IT serves me?

·      Frankly speaking, IT serves me a lot of things. If I clarify all the things that it serves me, no other options that I’m going to write four page longs ;p Information Technology helps me to live my life to the fullest. A few days ago my father just gives me a Blackberry as a birthday present. I can feel and get to know about the world with just a tap of buttons. 

Many-many of thanks papa<3

P/s: GoogleFacts: There is high speed Internet on the Mount Everest.

Start Blogging!!!

Hello everyone. Assalamualaikum wbt. I started my sun rising with grateful to Allah to give me another chance to inhale the fresh air on earth. Currently, I am studying Bachelor of Science in Information Technology.  A wise man once said that this course going to lead us  to adventurous but yet enjoyable journey. No doubt that I am using IT in my daily life routine. In conjunction of this course, I would like to share some of my random thoughts on this blog.

P/s: GoogleFacts: Instagram has more than 100 million registered users