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HW2: Design and Usability Critique

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  For this assignment, I decided to pick the website https://www.apple.com/ .  1. Simplicity (Score: 10/10) I think it is pretty simple and minimalistic. Its front page does not have unnecessary design elements. All the buttons have a functional purpose. I think it is very easy for visitors to this website to find what they are looking for.  Colors: The creators of this website decided to use a monochromatic color scheme. The front page has black, white, and two shades of gray. This color scheme makes the website design more elegant. It also creates a bold, dramatic look while still being soft and tasteful to the eye. Typefaces: All the typefaces of this website are legible. Front page has sans serif fonts that belong to the Arial family. The letters are either black on white or white on black or dark gray. It creates a good contrast between the typefaces and the background. It is normally recommended to use a maximum of three different typefaces in a maximum of three d...

HW1. History of Web Design

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  I actively started using the Internet when social media platforms were not popular, but the Internet became more affordable. I cannot pinpoint the exact month or year, but I am pretty sure that it was in the early 2000s. As a person that grew up reading books and spending hours to search the right piece of information, the ability to find the right article, picture or video just shocked me. In the very beginning, I could only access the Internet using a modem with a phone. Of course, there was no Wi-Fi. I had a modem in my room without autodial, and the phone was in the hallway. So, I had to dial a number in the hallway, run into my room to press the connect button, and then run back into the hallway to hang up. Moreover, it was necessary to hang up the phone at a specific moment after the sound signal. So, whenever I wanted to connect to the Internet, I had to complete this quest.             In my opinion, the most signif...

Internet / World Wide Web / Bluetooth / Wi-Fi

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              The Internet has become an essential part of our lives. Now, most people cannot imagine life without this revolutionary invention. In 1957 the US Department of Defense was the first one that thought about reliable information transmission. It was necessary to create a message transmission system that, even in case of a nuclear war, would not fail. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency came up with the idea of ​​using the computer to receive and transmit information (Featherly). Very soon, the agency started creating and developing the first computer network. Four US universities were tasked with implementing the idea: the University of California in Los Angeles, the University of Utah, the University of Santa Barbara, and the Stanford Research Center.                In 1969, a talented group of scientists created a computer network called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), ...