Have you ever wondered how Pantone, the design world’s color standard, is created? Check out this video!

360° Color: A Peek Inside Pantone from Base on Vimeo.

Finally I can announce that on February the 26th I got my diploma on Faculty for eletrotechnics, computer science and informatics, University of Maribor, Slovenia.

I am now a B.Sc. of Media Communications.

After my last year of studying Media communications (Interactive graphic design) I decided to explore the field of web usability, specifically usability assessment of social networking websites. My diploma research was based on evaluation of Facebook usability with techniques that were accessible during my research. My diploma research work is available here* in slovene language. Here is a short abstract:

The emergence of the World Wide Web has allowed users access to large amounts of information that can be found on the Internet.User interfaces have a major role in human-computer communication. Web content must be presented in a way that most users can understand and use. Because of varying levels of experience, knowledge and individual characteristics of web users, the design of web interfaces is subject to debates by psychology specialists, human-computer interaction specialists, graphic designers, sociologists and specialists in related sciences. They tend to define  universal standards for website usefulness in order to ensure the most universal and positive user experience. Since social networking sites are currently the most popular online communications medium, it is necessary to develop user interfaces with a keen consideration for the expectations and requirements of typical users. A positive user experience can only be created by analyzing the usefulness of websites in various aspects and offering  the best possible solutions.

* Since the document is only available in slovene language at this moment you are free to translate it with Google translator or any other translation tool to see the results.

As you can see I made some changes to my blog design and layout. I am now using the Smashing Wordpress Theme and have been making some small CSS corrections and adjustifications to the original template. Looks pretty much different by now. Since I’ve read quite a lot about usability in the last few months, I focus on making my website user-friendly and elegant but still with a touch of ‘Ajdish’ playfulness. It might take some time to make it beautiful but you know, you can’t rush good design, especially nice illustrations for the background picture

I’ve also decided to write my blog posts in english since I strangely get more response from abroad than from my native Slovenia (especially on SNs like Twitter and LinkedIn).

Feel free to compliment on my blog, get all excited and write cool comments, become my stalker on Facebook or anything you’d like and I might use you to visit your country and have you as my guide the whole week.

Hope you got the joke

MATT GONE - The Chequered Man, originally uploaded by Mark Berry - Photographer & Graphic Designer.

An amazing photo from Mark Berry, capturing Matt Gone - a 100% tatooed man. Quite a texture inspiration

‘You may be relegated to the toilet paper account as a junior art director at an ad agency, but if you’re stuck in the same role at an interactive agency as a digital artist, you can make the toilet paper talk, dance, and sing.’

http://www.princetonreview.com/Careers.aspx?cid=201

Nasilne računalniške igre so bile že od nekdaj tarča kritik in stvar nenehno spreminjajoče se zakonske regulacije. Ljudje, ki igrajo nasilne video igre na spletu, bi se naj po eni izmed raziskav na oddelku psihologije Middlesex University med igranjem igre počutili bolj sproščene in manj jezne po igranju nasilne igre. Kljub temu, da ima jeza pri igranju nasilnih iger veliko vlogo, pa je stopnja agresivnosti, ki jo občuti igralec, precej relativna glede na osebnostne lastnosti igralca.

Nasilne igre bi naj vzpodbujale igralce, predvsem otroke in adolescente da asociirajo nasilje in ubijanje z občutki užitka, zabave, dosežkov in pridobivanja moči. Dandanes, v času množične uporabe prenosnih igralnih konzol, namenijo otroci velik del časa igranju nasilnih iger, predvsem v obdobju odraščanja, v katerem bi se morali učiti o zdravem medčloveškem odnosu, da bodo lahko kasneje mirno reševali konflikte. Ker so video igre nekakšni učitelji the otrok, je pomembno, da so o vplivih nasilnih iger dobro poučeni tudi starši in otrokovi učitelji, predvsem pa, da je ustrezna tudi zakonodaja, ki filtrira obstoj (ne)primernih nasilnih iger.

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