Pinaz+Farzadi



**Welcome to Pinaz's page! **
====**I am currently a third year student in the Digital Enterprise Mangement Program at UTM. I am very excited that summer is just around the corner but at the same time I feel as if second semester just flew by. At teh same time I am happy as I am taking 6 courses this semester and cannot wait to be done all of my exams. This summer I am going to India for 5 weeks and am looking forward to that. I also plan on working as a Camp Counselor for the Air Cadet Program this summer. I plan of getting a lot of rest and having fun this summer as I want to be refreshed and ready for next year, my last year at UTM. **  ====


====**P.S- This page gets updated frequently so keep checking:). ** ====

====Unlike most other business that form an idea and then strive to create it from scratch, Apple decided to use collaboration as a business model for the creation of the iPod. Apple collaborated with companies such as Toshiba and mainly PortalPlayer, who produced different aspects of the iPod. Even though it looks like Apple delegated all the work, they in fact did have an idea of "what the player should be and what it should look like" which allowed to the product design to take an outside-in approach (Sherman, Erik). The outside-in approach also allowed for layered design, which Apple developed. The most important point is that even though Apple collaborated with other companies to ultimately create the completion of the iPod, their goal of making another "high-tech product consumer friendly" was achieved. ====

==== **2: What distinguishes the work of the team of Jobs and Ive in relation to products designed by Apple? What new materials are enabling different design? ** ====

====Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive together make an undefeatable team and this they have proved through their success at Apple. Jobs is able to establish core values that enforce design and innovation in a clear manner and believes them to be true. Ive is greatly interested in knowing how things are made (their form and materials), therefore paying great attention to detail and believing that the best is an outcome of simplicity. He also focuses on teams being united, by sharing the same goals and values. There are also a few number of new materials that have enabled Apple to use different designs recently. The twin-shooting material allows us to mould different plastics together. The polymer advances makes sure that specific goals and requirements are met. Additionally, metal forming and other new materials are broadening the range of functional and formal opportunities that we have now and those which we did not have in the past. ====

==== **3: Describe the importance of Apple's design team. Are other companies trying to compete with Apple by creating their own design teams? ** ====

====Apple’s design team is key to their success. Ive enjoys working on a few projects with a limited number of professionals, who work together and share the same goals. Even though their high salary is an incentive to work well, professionals spend time working “closely and intensely with engineers, marketers, and even outside manufacturing contractors in Asia who actually build the products” (Burrows, Peter). This type of dedication and loyalty is built in Apple’s design team. Looking at Apple’s success, many other companies are trying to compete with them by creating their own design teams. Instead of being intimidated, Apple looks at it as “how far they [literally] have to go to” (Burrows, Peter). ====

**Bibliography ** **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Burrows, Peter. Who is Jonathan Ive? Retrieved 11 Jan 2009 from the World Wide Web <http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_39/b4002414.htm> **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">  **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Sherman, Erik.Inside the Apple iPod Design Triumph. Retrieved 11 Jan 2009 from the World Wide Web < **<span style="display: inline! important; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">[|**http://www.designchain.com/testprint.asp?issue=summer02&template=coverstory**] **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">> **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">

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 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Physical Ergonomics ** <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> “is concerned with human anatomical, anthropometric, physiological and biomechanical characteristics as hey relate to physical activity” (Definitions). Examples of physical ergonomics are “working postures, materials handling, repetitive movements” and more (Definitions).
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Cognitive Ergonomics **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> “is concerned with mental processes, such as perception, memory, reasoning, and motor response, as they affect interactions among humans and other elements of a system” (Definitions). Examples of cognitive ergonomics are “human-computer interaction, human reliability, work stress” and more (Definitions).
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Organizational Ergonomics **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> “is concerned with the optimization of sociotechnical systems, including their organizational structures, policies, and processes” (Definitions). Examples of organizational ergonomics include “communication, crew resource management, work design” and more (Definitions).

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">2: Advice for Case Study # 3: Lighting at Work **
====<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Since most of the lights are spaced far apart on a high ceiling, they can purchase desk lamps as they are portable and the head is usually moveable therefore making light conveniently available to the members of the office staff. ====

===<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">3: Find an example of a product which is ergonomically sound, and add a link to an article about this product. === ====<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">An example of an ergonomically sound product is the Adjustable Height Workstation. More information can be found at http://www.ergoindemand.com/adjustable_height_computer_workstation.htm. ====

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 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Bibliography **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> "Definitions." Human Factors & Ergonomics Society of Australia Inc. Retrieved 19 Jan 2009 from the World Wide Web < http://www.ergoindemand.com/adjustable_height_computer_workstation.htm>

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====<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">1. Computer access, including Internet services being provided at a low cost through the ADM Personal Internet Communicator. ====

<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">5. One Lapton per Child allows children in third world countries to learn, get informed and communicate.
<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> ====<span style="display: block; color: #ea34ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">WEEK 5-TUTORIAL ARTICLES **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ==== **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(147,11,11); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> 1. Research the <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">definition of 'bodystorming', and write a paragraph describing its characteristics and describe the information revealed to the researchers in the three different case studies for one paragraph each **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ==== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Bodystorming is a technique used in interactive design where one imagines exactly what it would be like to use the product if it existed and in the environment that the product would be used in. One of the main aspects bodystorming takes into account is that of disabilities and how these products would fit in. The paragraphs below outline three cases that are viewed in the video __<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Part 1: Bodystorming Experiencing a Disability’. __<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ==== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ====<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">In the first case revolves around the issue of Visual Impairment-Blindness. A young girl is blindfolded in a neighborhood and with the aid of a walking stick, she moves around. At first she found herself to be disoriented and dependent. She makes great use of other senses and greatly relies on them. In one instance she counted the number of steps to mentally know where the location of the stairs are after she crosses the street. This case study provided insight on using multisensory approaches such as sound and touch to the researchers. Since she is blindfolded she has to depend on her other senses, especially sound and touch to continue any activity in her life. ====

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====<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">In the second case in the video, a young man suffers from Chronic- Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). His task is to correctly reset a telephone number while solving mathematic problems. These two tasks are very difficult in performing and thus caused the man constant frustration which negatively affected his self-esteem. The insights that this case study provided to researchers was that it was hard to use clear narration to assist the user and present enjoyable yet challenging activities to improve attention. ====

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====<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">In the last case, a participant’s hands and wrists were fastened and gloves were put over hands to reproduce the feeling of chronic arthritis. This caused the participant to be in constant fear of injury which made the participant very apprehensive at all times, even in undemanding conditions. From expending more energy his body temperature raises which added to his anxiety. The researchers learnt that using access-full routes, passing spaces, intangible objects composed of safe materials to decrease the fear of participation. Also to empower the user and to enhance interactions, speech recognition systems should be further researched. ====

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**<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">What are his definitions for these three stages of adoption, and how did he apply them to his case study of a camera? Write one clear paragraph for each of his definitions, listing their attributes in relation to the development of the camera. Can you think of another consumer product which has undergone similar developments? Name it. **

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<span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">David Liddle defines three stages for the adoption of a new technology. His first stage is the enthusiastic user stage where enthusiasts love and appreciate technology in an aesthetic manner and enjoy exploiting it. They also like how technology sets out a challenge and enthusiasts strive to overcome them. He uses a 35-millimeter camera to prove his point. He says that when it first was created, astronauts needed a PhD in optics to be able to operate them. He ends off his interview by noting that enthusiasts have a “exploit me, look at my capabilities” approach. The second stage is the one of the professionals. Liddle believes that eventually one of these users will put the technology into practical use where they can use it in their work life. Referring back to the 35-millimeter camera example, the camera went from being very expensive to being used by serious photographers. The approach taken here is “look at the productivity I can give you and here is how I can change your activities.” The last stage is the price point, where it is practical for consumers to buy the technology. When it reaches this stage the priorities of the product have clearly changed. Also, most of the important controls by this stage are all automated. In respect to the 35-millimeter camera, the camera can now set the film speed, flash and exposure automatically without having to do anything manually. The approach taken at this stage is “look at how I fit in with your style and here’s who you are if you use me and enjoy my capabilities.” Another product that has undergone similar developments is cell phones. ====<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ea34ea; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">WEEK 7 -TUTORIAL ARTICLES <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;"> **<span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(147,11,11); font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">** Write a description of interaction architecture as defined by Mat Hunter and Rikako Sakai. ** <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"> ==== <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Matt Hunter redesigns the feature of digital cameras. He explains that people take pictures to express themselves, record information but mainly it is used as a social enterprise. His main idea was to make users feel the experience rather than just know what was going on. Therefore, he wanted users to be bale to capture, share, delete and print images. He wanted to create information architecture with an extensive series of rules. He took all of this and made a prototype which was a big box with a security camera attached to the front and created a user interface. Kodak took this prototype and changed it into the DC210, one of the best cameras of that time.

Rikako Sakai redesigns the PhotoStitch by introducing a user interface rather than using a step-to-step process. The two main problems with the old version was that the structure was not visible to the user and that there were too many steps. She also uses animation to help beginners as it helps explain how to drag one photo to another one. She gained this idea mainly from observing people. <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: rgb(147,11,11);">** How does the author define 'leading questions' and 'hypothetical questions'? Write a paragraph each to define these terms. ** Leading questions are questions that are phrased in a certain manner that implies one to pick a certain answer. Most researchers use these types of questions to get respondents to agree with their hypothesis. The major downfall of leading questions is that it does not provide any insights or further information. <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> Hypothetical questions are based on fantasy-based and unreal situations. An example of a hypothetical question is “What would you do if you were the President of the United States?” Most people have never thought of being in that position therefore their answers will be very far fetched. They will not be able to answer this question accurately as they have never been in such an authoritative position and do not have all the correct information to make a well-educated decision. ====<span style="display: block; color: #ea34ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;">**<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">WEEK 8 -TUTORIAL ARTICLES **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ====

**<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">In three paragraphs, describe the role of Jan Chipchase in defining the role of cellphones in the developing world for Nokia, and the benefits of analyzing cellphone use and design in different cultures as part of their market expansion. ** Chipchase has been working for Nokia for the past 7 years as a human-behavior researcher where many people see him as a user anthropologists. His job description includes going to different environments in third world countries, and accumulate data about human behavior so that he could provide this information to Nokia. This way, designers, technologists and marketing teams can design and market cell phones for people in another country without ever having to actually physically go there. The key here is that he has blogs, reports and PowerPoint presentations, where he reports what needs to happen for these users to buy a cell phone.

Chipchase’s job is very helpful to Nokia, as he finds out exactly how people use cell phones, what they need to keep using their cell phone and what will make others buy cell phones, in different countries. By going to different countries, he looks at and understands the different cultural needs. Therefore, Nokia can market their products by getting to know the customer before making any changes to their current phones. For example, he noticed that people in Mumbai who live in slums, hang their belongings so that they do not get wet in the monsoon season. Therefore, Nokia could look into this and maybe come up with an accessory where hanging cell phones on the wall is accessible to those in Mumbai.

This method of finding out information about users is very effective as Chipchase goes into the users actually home and looks at their lifestyle. His information also provides us with the fact that people who barely have money to fulfill their basic needs have a cell phone due to its convenience. Additionally, there are many other obstacles that people have to go through just for the purpose of owning a cell phone. Cell phones also provide thousands of people with jobs on a daily basis and therefore it is very important to keep this going. Overall, cell phones are a great source of communication and the manner in which Chipchase understands how people use cell phones will hopefully make cell phones more customized for each different region of the world. ==== **<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #ea34ea; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">WEEK 9 -TUTORIAL ARTICLES **<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> ==== <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">**Describe how he defines 'design as a collaborative process', and cite two examples of how creators involve the people they want to create for in their work, according to Bill Moggridge's lecture.** <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">Bill Moggridge defines ‘design as a collaborative process’ as togetherness which consists of ‘with and by.’ He believes that this includes new design practices, involving the people we design for and changing context. He says that one cannot design with only physical attributes in mind, due to the technology human interaction design. Additionally, he supports this by including digital interfaces, physical behavior and physical objects as part of the new design practices. He also states that personal, social and global issues must be taken into consideration when dealing with a changing context. Through a movie clip, he explains how we need to know how people think and how the brain works (cognitive) to be able to suit their needs. A perfect example of this is, when designing something for hours of comfort, like a steel chair, one has to take into consideration the physiology of the spine, and not only the way the chair physically looks like.

Two examples of how creators involve the people they want to create for in their works are:

1) The American Red Cross Donor Program <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msochartype: symbol; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings;">à they decided to involve their participants by putting up picture of them and making them explain as to why they donated blood. The entire reason for this is to make other read blood donors story and want to donate themselves. Also, by putting pictures and their stories up, people feel as if they have a made a difference and are a part of something.

2)Gyrus <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Wingdings; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings; msoasciifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msohansifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msochartype: symbol; msosymbolfontfamily: Wingdings; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman';">à they decided to take surgeons and make them part of a team where they would together redesign the equipment that they use. This made the surgeons feel part of a project and therefore decided to put in more effort causing for a more effective design to be created. One of their motivating factor was that they themselves would be using the improved version. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">**Find an online example of a product which utilizes his principles of collaborative design, add its URL, and describe its design in three sentences.** [] Weight Watchers is a company that strivers upon the fact that people need to lose weight to look skinny to fit into societal norms. One of the manners in which they encourage other people to join their program is by making those individuals who have completed their program to tell their story. Under the ‘Success Stories” tab, there are people who post their before and after pictures, and write a small blog about themselves and how weight watchers changed their life in a positive manner.

<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: center;">**WEEK 10- TUTORIAL ARTICLES** ====<span style="display: block; color: #ea34ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"> <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"><span style="display: block; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">**Look over examples of her biomimetic principles applied to products in the slideshow** **and write a short, one paragraph synopsis for each of your three favourite product designs.** <span style="display: block; color: #ea34ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"> <span style="display: block; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; color: #ea34ea; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive; text-align: center;"> Below are examples of Janine Benyus's biomimetic principle being applied to real-life procuts.====

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====<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">The fastest train in the world, Japan’s 500 Series Shinkansen, is able to run quietly at extremely fast rates. The design was based on owls, which are known to be the quietest birds. Noise pollution is greatly reduced by the use of a design inspired and similar to that of an owl’s feathers. The amount of sound the train makes is also reduced by its nose. The long, pointy cone is designed after the Kingfisher’s beak. The sound is also reduced when coming into and out of a tunnel, just like when the bird itself dives into and out of the water. Both features, modeled through nature, reduced noise pollution. ====

**<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Sonar-Enabled Cane **
====<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">UltraCane, a device built specifically for the visually impaired, is technology designed after the way a bat navigates, through sonar technology. Sending out sound waves, it can sense objects to avoid collision by sending a warning to the person holding the cane through its handle. ====

**<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Bone Furniture **
====<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Joris Laarman designs furniture that is inspired by the structure of bones. As breakable as it looks or sound, it is just as strong as any other piece of furniture, but just a lot lighter. The design of the structure itself forms a great amount of support. Not only is this for furniture used in houses, but General Motors, created car parts lighter than usual but just as strong in a similar way. ====

**<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Bibliography **
====<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Vella, Matt. __<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">Design Tips from Mother Nature. __<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;"> BusinessWeek. Retrieved 20 March 2009 [] ====

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<span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">Web accessibility for me, is the manner in which one, with or without any disability, can clearly navigate around a website, gain information and become an active member. Thus the way a website is designed is key in web accessibility. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">**<span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">2. Who do you think benefits from accessible websites and how? ** <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">With the Internet being a constant in most people’s lives, many do benefit from accessible websites. People who are visually impaired can now access information from the web instead on having to rely on others to notify them about current events. The manner in which this takes place is through ‘screen readers.’ They literally read out electronic texts so that everything on every website is accessible by virtually anyone. Additionally accessible websites help people with other disabilities such as people without full hands/arms. Websites also have captions so that those with hearing disabilities can still access the information. Accessible websites also benefit the general public as now they have different means of accessing information on the Internet.
 * <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">1. How would you describe web accessibility? **


 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #7777f8; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">3. Do you think your website/blog should be accessible? Should all Canadian websites? **

<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; msoansilanguage: EN-CA; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msofareastlanguage: EN-CA; msobidilanguage: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontweight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">I definitely do think that websites (including Canadian websites) and blogs should all be accessible. Ever since the Internet, everything has become so very convenient to find, things such as grocery shopping and working has become easier to do and networking is taking place. This definitely affects one’s life in a positive manner and therefore everyone should be able to access this convenience. ** 4. What do you think is the biggest challenge of making a website accessible? ** <span style="display: block; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; text-align: left;">The biggest challenge of making a website accessible is making sure that all of the content is accessible by everyone that fall into the four major categories of the different types of disabilities (visually impaired, hard of hearing, motor and cognitive). When a website is accessible, it technically should be accessible by any and everyone. Even though there is usually a quite good sense of who the audience will be for each website, there is no way of exactly knowing who will and will not come across it. Thus, it should be accessible regardless of the person and their ability. Ensuring that websites are accessible by people from any of those four categories is hard, therefore making it the hardest part of making an accessible website.