Hello! My name is Braden. I am a psychology student who has dabbled in enough Education courses to get a real interest for it over the years. I live off campus and have a evil little monster named Mogwai (pictured below, aww. wow).
I had a particular interest in this course on interactive media and multimedia because of how pertinent I find it to be lately, given all of the online courses since the pandemic. I am familiar with how to engage with interactive media because this is a type of learning that I have been exposed to for much of my life. Even something as simple as YouTube in my free time, or playing video games I believe relates to this. But even further than that is being homeschooled through middle and high school. I have learned a lot of my language and writing through interactive online programs because of that, more so than I anticipate most people experienced during those years of their life.
I bring up my educational background because it has given me a strong technological competency, which I think is an important thing to consider with how people interface and understand interactive media.
The weekly post for week 2 made me think of extraneous load and how this relates to UX design – making user-friendly websites for learning. To make the media that learners have to interface within intuitive for everyone, regardless of their experience. “Intuitive” referring to avoiding visual clutter, or to build on existing “mental modes,” or means in which users might already understand or expect your system to function (Whitenton, 2013).
References
Whitenton, K. (2013, December). Minimize cognitive load to maximize usability. Nielsen Norman Group. Retrieved from https://www.nngroup.com/articles/minimize-cognitive-load/