I based the design off of the Red Cross home page.

This is the original screen shot from the British Heart Foundation.

This is the home page I redesigned. Its original was from the British Heart Foundation.

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The chapter, User Centered Design talks about standardizing designs. This is useful because if its standardized then people will understand how to use and interact with it. For example many web pages are standardize with the websites logo at the top left. Americans especially are used to this because of the way we read. There's no point in over complicating something especially when a previous design is works fine. One thing I feel should be standardized is cellphone chargers. People are constantly buying new phones from different companies with different chargers. Also its very annoying to have to try and find someone with the same charger as you if you left yours behind or are away from your house.

In the chapter Err is Human, Norman talks about how humans make mistakes all the time. He says they often make mistakes wile doing everyday tasks, that they are used to doing. One example from my life is driving. When i first started to drive, I was careful, and made sure to stop at stop signs, and use my blinker. After a year of driving I failed to stop at a stop sign, luckily there wasn't anyone crossing. This example shows that when things become routine people begin to make "slips".

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The article "Don't be so quick to embrace your own ignorance" message is that just because you don't know how to do something doesn't mean that you're not intelligent, it simply means you haven't learned the information yet. I can relate this to my own personal experience about learning to play guitar. I wanted to play because I heard my friend play and i thought it was pretty cool, because of how good he was. I then took up the guitar and was pretty terrible, it was frustrating because I thought that I simply wasn't meant to play. I talk to my friend and it turned out he had been taking lessons for about four years. I then started taking lessons and over time became pretty good at guitar.

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Olympic Inspiration was about perseverance, the message behind it was to never give up on your goals, because with failure comes improvement. I can relate this to my past in many ways because i surf, skate, wake board, and snowboard. All of these are activities in which there is a learning processes in which you start off terrible, and slowly progress and achieve different goals. Eventually if you really work at it, you become better, and then great. But the processes is very important, what would be the point of learning something if you were already excellent at it.