Week 8

By week 8 I have come up with the questions I want to include in my questionnaire and have set out the task for my experimental task. I have gathered together 8 computers and 8 candidates. Four of these computers are Apple Macs and the remaining Windows based PC. I handed out a written task to each of my candidates so they can work on it themselves and know exactly what they are doing as this task shows a step by step guide. This task should take a maximum of 15 minutes and if anyone over passes this time then they leave their work incomplete and move onto the questionnaire. When I did this task I had learnt that it was a good idea to set out a simple task and then combine an questionnaire with it as it will allow me to look at the cause and effect. The task that I had set out for my candidates tests out some of the most used features on these computers.

When the questionnaires were complete I saved each of them onto my USB and the generated this data onto Microsoft Excel so I can turn this into graphs which then would allow me to compare between an Windows based PC and Apple Mac.

When I was thinking of questions for my questionnaire and the task I wanted I had done some research into different Journals. These journals were related to aesthetics and typographic design. In my annotated bibliography, I will include the links to the journals and what I had found in them which relates to the design question.