Jack Roche CDM

  B00138525 Jack Roche Content Management Systems  CA 1- Publishing Task 1 User Experience (UX) Explained for Best Practice Website Creation Here is everything you need to know about UI/UX design this week, with the end of the Adobe Max virtual conference I will discuss User Experience and the best practice for website creation, links to the videos I found useful in my research down below.   Adobe Session 1   Grace Ling provides a striking insight into what her life was like growing up and studying neuroscience before coming to work at Electronic Arts where she works as a UX designer.  Neuroscience has little/nothing to do with UX, but she found herself in that career all the same with no educational background other than her self-taught skills and interests on the subject- Showing just how UX can be experienced and learned in the workplace, and you never stop learning more and more about it as she continues to express how much she is still learning ev...

 This is a break blog post to separate year 2 semester 2 and year 3 semester 1

 Source: https://fs.blog/carol-dweck-mindset/  This week I learned more about Carol Dweck the doctor who coined the phrase Growth Mindset. I learned this week exactly what constitutes as a fixed mindset. People with a fixed mindset avoid challenges, give up at obstacles, see effort as fruitless, ignore useful negative feedback and feel threatened by the success of others. However, people with growth mindset seam to take a lot of these elements in stride and try to become better from each one, for example they are ready to embrace challenge, persist in the face of setbacks and so on. I feel this is a very important mindset to have in college and general life, there's no one who can be perfect all the time or in this case "smart", everyone has their own unique challenges and strengths but these challenges are belittled and these strengths can always be enhanced with a growth mindset and some hard work. 

Source: https://www.mindsetworks.com/science/  This week I learned about Dr Dweck who coined the term "Growth Mindset" as well as the experiments made in fiske elementary school that showed a growth mindset can result in a much higher effort from a student body at large, which in turn can result in better grades. A growth mindset can also be something that can be caused in a brain, deviating from a fixed mindset, which is when someone instead of being given praise for their hard work and effort is instead given praise as being smart. A result of this is when students underperform or fail tests, those with fixed mindsets are defeated by this news and can become upset or give up on the task at hand, meanwhile those with a growth mindset can be found to preform admirable better on a second test, being able to learn and grow more from their failure than their fixed counterpart.  I find these traits admirable, the ability to be able to bounce back from any certain failure and ...

 Reflection on creating a chapter for this years book: I enjoyed researching, learning, and generally finding out more about VR, AR and XR. I also enjoyed challenging myself on my own knowledge of the technology and versions of it, for example I had heard of The Sword of Damocles but I never actually seen a picture of it before until now. I enjoyed learning about the history of an aspect of gaming you don't usually see YouTube video's or retrospective documentaries on often,  cause for a lot of people VR, AR and XR are entirely new concepts but in reality they have been present in our day to day lives for a significant amount of time already!

 My chapter in the book is finished, I have followed the advice my lecturer gave me and added the sources to my paragraphs into the writings themselves (for whatever reason I decided not to do that originally, making more work for myself haha) With that and some graphics my chapter is finished.

  This week I added my bio and then continued to add some graphics, I added one graphic I made myself of a modern VR headset and then another graphic of the Sword of Damocles: Author Bio- My name's Jack, I like video games. I really like video games, especially the ones from the past- The retro classics. I am also a 2nd year student of Creative Digital Media, Technology University of Dublin. These facts are in an order of importance.