Blog 1

In my opinion, I see the pros and cons for reading ebooks. Ebooks are easy to get access to, you can download a book within minutes, and it's conveniently in a small mobile device. It's best when you're reading on the go, but I do love physical books as well. Physical books are able to give you, well physical feels. You're able to touch it, hold it, and breathe it. I also feel like it's easier on the eyes and it doesn't strain them. I do like both, but I have been leaning more towards ebooks.

After reading the readings, I do not agree with what the author said about context being first. I honestly think it still has to be content and here's why. How are you to build something if you don't know what's going to go in it? Doesn't it make sense? When you build a house, you know there's going to be furniture and people living in it, and you adjust the context of the house for people to live in. It's always been content first. Maybe I'm just saying this, because I come from a user experience background, but what good is a design if you don't know who you're building the item for?

I also feel like good design starts with mobile first. Building an app for a phone to start with is a lot easier than building an app on a tablet and then trying to shrink the content into a phone. When you think about it, it's easier to expand your information from a small device instead of having to collapse it. Maybe that's why I'm not a big fan of the definite content. I feel like information needs to flow together without being so constrained. I honestly feel like the reason why narrative ebooks aren't able to be on a phone is because it's being constrained to the size of book to a tablet when we need to go the other way around. And maybe it's just me and my user experience background, but that's just how I see it. If anyone has a different opinion from mine and think differently, I would love to know why so I can get a better understanding of what you see.