Journal 3

1.The responsive typography face detection experiment was interesting but didn't impress me that much. It was a very innovative idea and probably took a lot ideation and testing to resolve it but I found it really hard to read. It didn't lend to the legibility of the text (even though it was only lorem ipsum). I didn't like how I lost my place in the paragraph as I moved my face forward and backward. (For example) If someone were using this in a real life situation and had to take notes while reading on their screen, they would lose their place every time they leaned down to write in their notebook. I also thought that being able to see my face in the screen below was distracting. I could see myself moving in my peripheral vision as the type was increasing and decreasing size. It was just too distracting for me. I could see old people or people who have vision trouble and find screens hard to read off of using this and finding it helpful. Instead of moving the screen forward and backward (as my not-so-tech-savvy dad does) they could just find the adjustment that was right for them. Also, this could be used to gage your computer settings if people have trouble determining what type size is best for them.

2.  http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/02/18/this-color-pickers-unique-minimal-interface-is-     surprisingly-intuitive-and-useful/

This article was AMAZING and so SO useful! It was about an interface that intuitively picks colors for web as you scroll your mouse along the screen. Once you've found a color that you like, you simply click your mouse and it saves that color as a column and moves you on to the next color. It took me a little while to get used to moving my mouse to figure out how the colors changed along the screen. I quickly figured out that by moving my mouse up the colors got darker, moving it down they got lighter, to the left they were warmer and to the right they were cooler. I loved that the color selections included the hex code.

This is what I ended up with after expirimenting with this tool. There was really no rhyme or reason to these selections, I was trying to figure it out. 

Okay so this one was a little prettier. I could play around with this tool all day!

3. http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/02/02/x-of-the-most-beautiful-typeface-designs-released-this-january/?fromcat=dd

The last article that I read was just about new typefaces that have been released within the last 30 days. I found this inspiring because we are in the process of designing our own typefaces for this class. I liked looking at the different interpretations of type and reading the small captions that explained where the designers got their ideas.