The topic in Friday's lecture was evaluation. The definition we were given for it was " Evaluation is concerned with gathering data about the usability of a design or product by a specified group of users for a particular activity within a specified environment or work context". We were told about different types of evaluation such as qualitative and quantitative and also when and why evaluation takes place. There were four main points raised under the "why evaluate?" category including; understanding the real world, comparing designs, engineering towards a target and checking conformance to a standard which were all explained in turn.
I also read a bit more on evaluation on this website:
http://www.ces-vol.org.uk/index.cfm?pg=167
We went back to using Flash in the tutorial this week so I found it a lot more interesting. We looked at linking the keyframes through buttons which navigate from one frame to the next or back to the previous frame. We had to add the text "page 1", "page 2" and "page 3" to each corresponding keyframe in sequence and then add a button / buttons to the frame allowing us to navigate back and forwards through them. However to do this we had to stop it automatically running on its own by stopping the timeline and because the tutorial was designed for an earlier version of Flash, it didn't give us the correct instructions so I looked it up on the internet and found this blog:
http://www.quip.net/blog/2007/flash/making-buttons-work-in-flash-cs3
I didn't actually find what I was looking for, but thought it could be used for future reference.
Overall the lecture this week was again straightforward and interesting, although evaluation isn't a difficult concept anyway there were still aspects of it I hadn't previously thought of and found the lecture useful in helping me realise this. Also the way the lecture just seemed to move on from one point to the next in sequence rather than jumping between topics made it easy to follow. The tutorial was equally helpful this week even though the tutorial sheet was based on the previous version of Flash the basic idea's were still in there and there was actually only 1 thing wrong up to the point I reached.
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Hi Hannah, sorry, the instructions should say that we're only working with ActionScript 2, I thought I mentioned it in the first week, so only use 2 with all the Flash tutorials from now on.
Good post though, well done.
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