Trap. The combination of the genres of trance and rap usually through sound mixing and editing, has become a staple of parties and festival shows. They share similar use of synth, heavy base and spoken words to create music.
When we talked in class about usability and the internet, it sounded like the conclusion as to what makes a usable website is simplicity. Creating a website to serve a very obvious purpose is the key to usability.


When we talked in class about usability and the internet, it sounded like the conclusion as to what makes a usable website is simplicity. Creating a website to serve a very obvious purpose is the key to usability. But even when a site is usable, there are aesthetics that make a website a more enjoyable experience for the user. Color, formatting, and graphic elements can enhance usability by making a website visually appealing. In the case of craigslist, they substitute an aesthetically appealing design for maximum usability. The website is designed to display information and facilitate sales between individuals with maximum efficiency and the least amount of confusion possible.

Below is a sample of a typical local craigslist website. It is used a personal classifieds for just about anything. Job searching, garage sales, and personals ads are all housed on this site. The beauty of craigslist is in its simplicity. The site looks like it could be designed by any amateur (I picture graphic designers cringing at the home page layout) computer programmer but the functionality of craigslist is astonishing. The search bar encourages the user to search for anything. Literally anything. If anything matches the search term on craigslist, you will find it. Occasionally, it takes a little sifting to weed out irrelevant results but from personal experience, the results I have had with craigslist are great. I think that the simplistic design is overlooked by the typical user when they realize how straightforward and efficiently the website gets results.  When going for great website design, sometimes simple is best.

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Every day we are faced with multiple typefaces: the good, the bad and the ugly. Some help us to read faster and more clearly, some to invoke a specific feeling or emotion, all the while persuading us to do something (or buy something).
... and how clashing implications continue to shape our reactions to these colors.

Depending on the region and cultural upbringing, one may have different connotations associated with the colors black, white, and red.
When talking about the ethics and rhetoric of data displays in class, I brought up the example of geographic information system (GIS) and their technique of interpolation.
"The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint" makes the assertion that:

The core ideas of teaching- explanation, reasoning, finding

things out, questioning, content, evidence, credible authority not patronizing

authoritarianism-are contrary to the cognitive style of PowerPoint.
When I first pulled out Tufte's packet on Power Point, it looked like one of the most boring texts on the planet. 30 pages on the style of Power Point? But as I read, I started to see his point and even found myself laughing at certain parts (talking about the “stupefied audience”).
Since media technology has advanced past the typewriter, the capabilities of visual, and eventually digital, rhetoric using images have grown exponentially. By appealing to different human attitudes and emotions, digital images have the ability of persuasion and gaining compliance alike.
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