Cyber Stalking

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This is our final project for EID100. This video is targeted towards early teens and young adults (14+). However, this video is beneficial for anyone using the internet. It explores what is cyber stalking, the methods used to cyber stalk, a case revolving cyber stalking and methods of prevention. Check out the video below for details.

User Experience Design: Top 5 Reasons Why It Is So Important RIGHT NOW!

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Every $1 invested in User Experience (UX) can have a return of up to $100 for your business. - @UXmotel

But, what is User Experience Design? Watch the video below to find out!

According to Jose Caballer and Chris Do, User Experience Design (UXD) is "The process of enhancing user satisfaction by improving the usability, accessibility and pleasure provided in the interaction between the user and a product”. Following diagram brainstorms briefly what UXD is all about.

UX Design has been a hot topic in recent months. But why is it so important? Below are 5 top reasons why User Experience Design is so important today:

1. Personalizing the experience:

Vast amount of information is now available online. Designers use various metrics on user behavior, geographical and demographics to personalize the user experience through content and design. UX design creates a productive and engaging personalized user experience through monitoring process, collection and analysis of visitor behavior.

2. Increasing searchability:

Through the UX design, information is formatted, labeled and structured well for everyone to be able to access and comprehend the content. The techniques used in UX Design, ensures the sites are easy to find, connecting both people and search engines in the vast pool of information and data.

3. User friendly:

It allows for users to easily navigate web pages and understand how to use it. Adopting UX Design will ensure visitors come back for more. For example, UX Design can be specially meaningful for intricate or in-depth websites. Why? Because this will allow the target audience to learn navigating online content in a sift.

4. Great for complex systems:

As the system gets more complex the planning and architecture have to be jeven more involved . For this, UX Design will certainly make the process easier for multi-faceted websites, interaction-rich Web applications and e-commerce websites.

5. Time and cost saving:

UX designers are able to lessen the work load for Web designers and developers through taking on some of their tasks. This saves both time and cost during revision process.

For those that are interested, I strongly suggest you to check out UX Design. If you have a general curiosity for everything, love to question and like to make systems better and easier for everyone, you can be a UX designer in the future. 

Creating Infographic Using Piktochart

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I just created an infographic based on the blog (Occam's Razor) of Avinash Kaushik, called Best Metrics For Digital Marketing: Rock Your Own And Rent Strategies.  Below is the infographic:

Creating Apps Using Appy Pie

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I just created my first app using Appy Pie. This app showcases my artwork, includes links to my website and social media platforms. Please feel free to check out my app Artistiquee.

    

                          

                                     

         

Step Up Your Twitter Game with TweetDeck

TweetDeck is an app that acts like a dashboard. It organizes all tweets as well as interactions in one interface. Multiple accounts can be managed by logging in to the main TweetDeck account.

Some of the advanced features include:

• Managing multiple Twitter accounts
• Multiple timelines in one interface
• Scheduling future Tweets
• Building Tweet collections
• Live update
• Responding and interacting with followers in real time

Below is a list of details for advanced search on TweetDeck:

1. Collection:
Allows for real time organization of Tweets according to topics, events, interests, conversations, etc. as columns. Users are also able to Tweet the URL for sharing purposes. Below is a screenshot of the columns:

2. Advanced search:
Customize results in various ways, such as: "showing", "matching", "excluding", "written in", and "retweets". These options are available in the drop-down menu after a search is run.

3. Search history:
TweetDeck saves all the previous searches made and they can be found in the navigation bar, in a drop-down menu.

4. Sentiment:
Search sentiment about any topic by inserting a happy or sad emoticon. For example, use the keyword "San Francisco :)" for tweets with positive impression about that place.

5. Filters:
Customize search results using a filter. Search images of San Francisco using the keywords “San Francisco filter:twimg”. Other filters include:filter:images

filter:verified
filter:news
filter:replies
filter:hashtag

Overall, TweetDeck opens the golden gate of flexibility for Twitter. Through customizations of multiple columns, TweetDeck makes all the information much more digestible for the heavy Twitter users and personalize their Twitter experience.

If you are a social media manager¸ thinking of becoming one, follow numerous accounts, have multiple accounts or simply want to learn this new app, I strongly recommend every one to give TweetDeck a try.

Module 3: Final Project Proposal

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My group have created an educational video on Online Privacy and Security. Check it out at the bottom for more information.

All You Need to Know About Cloud Computing

What is cloud computing? Instead of using the hard drive of one’s computer, it is a way to store and access data and programs over the internet. Some examples of cloud computing services include Amazon Web Services, Drop Box and Google Drive.

A demanding infrastructure needs:

Server farms

Power

Cooling

Redundancy

Just like anything on the web, cloud computing has many advantages and also comes with a few disadvantages:

Advantage	Disadvantage
Flexible	Security
Scalable	Legacy Software
Cost effective	Bankruptcy
Secure*	Intellectual property

When talking about cloud computing, the best way to explain it is through the front end and the back end terminology.  Both of these connect through a network, mostly the Internet.

Front end:

It is the interface layer, accessed by the user. It runs on the client, providing point of interaction between the user and system.

Back end:

It is the process layer that is unseen by the user.  It runs on the server and includes all the processes that goes on behind the screen or the "cloud" section of the system (remote retrieval and storage of data).

Refer to the image below for a visual depiction of front end and back end:

Protocols and middleware:

A central server administers the system. It monitors traffic and client demands and makes sure the system is functioning properly.  A set of rules that it follows are called protocols. It also uses software called middleware that helps networked computers to communicate with one another.Think of middleware as the connecting puzzle piece (refer to image below).

Redundancy:

To prevent unavailability of data during occasional breakdown, cloud computing system duplicates the information of clients and stores it elsewhere for backup . This process of duplicating is called redundancy.

Want to know more? Refer to the infographic below for more details:

Reference

An Ode to Middleware. (n.d.). Retrieved October 7, 2015, from http://openlegacy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Middleware-Sekurekode.png

Cloud Computing for Beginners. (n.d.). Retrieved October 7, 2015, from http://cdn.guru99.com/images/blog_image/cloud_computing_8.jpg

What is Cloud Computing Infographic. (n.d.). Retrieved October 7, 2015, from https://www.tcnp3.com/home/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/What-is-cloud-computing.gif