Ocean Eiler

Ocean Eiler is a designer from phosphate buffer solution KIDS. Actually, he is far to a greater extent than a designer because he is faithful at a lot of things. As a Senior power at phosphate buffer solution KIDS, he has molded his title to UX design, weathervane design, frontend development, winking development, video editing, audio FX creation, soundscape mixing, print design, game development, industrious development and a touch of management. Besides, he is also an artist, a DJ, a skateboarder, and a brandish climber. He was graduated from Ohio University with double degrees.After graduation, Ocean got his starting job in Switzerland. He then returned the United States and has worked for WOUB, Pixel & Ink, Matrix Group, and lastly phosphate buffer solution KIDS. The lecture was mainly about the designing process of the PBS KIDS GO Eiler introduced how did the view come up and how was the website finally realized. Through the lecture, I learnt more(prenominal) about the process of designing a website on background knowledge, including sketches, wireframes, color choices, and drug user testing, which is a very important part of operating an effective and piquant website.Besides, I also learnt that websites could be built with both front and spine end simultaneously under tight deadlines. The PBS KIDS GO was complete and put up online only in 12 days, whereas Eiler told me that a big website project usually take 6 months till a only year. After the lecture, I am more aw be of the significance of hypertext markup language and CSS. Since I am applying for summer interns recently, I found that most companies get coding skills. Proficiency of Photoshop and Illustrator nowadays is the lowest requirement, yet coding is ascendent in the future.There are a large amount of coding opportunities online await. I really have to develop my coding skills as soon as possible. During the lecture, Eiler mentioned Big written report, big ideas, which was sai d by Chris Bishop, the boss of Eilers. Eiler also showed us his working process of the PBS KIDS GO on paper from sketches to final version. However, I could not agree with him on this point because the big paper idea is not suitable for all websites, especially for the mobile web.As I saw Eilers work on large sheets of paper, the big paper idea is really great for desktop web, whereas nowadays, mobile web is more important than desktop web and is dominating in the future. Recently, I engage an article on designshack. net, which was discussing whether to go mobile web first or the desktop while designing a website. The author finally cereb gait that designers should go mobile first not only due to the speedy increase of mobile users, barely also because state-of-the-artly enhancing the website from mobile devices to desktops entrust make the website both functional and beautiful.The author of the article called dismissal desktop first graceful degradation and going mobile firs t progressive enhancement. Comparing the articles viewpoint with Eilers hint during the lecture, I thought they were both right. Eiler showed us some data at the beginning of the lecture, which shows that 98% PBS KIDS users are desktop web users and more or less half of them use Internet Explorer. Besides, the users major screen resolution is 1024768.The data is so different from the investment of a larger range of web users, which shows that Google Chrome is occupying the major browser market and mobile users are far more than 2%. Therefore, my opinion is that kids are using outdated desk/laptops (may be substituted by their parents) more often, and hence, they do not really need mobile web. For websites on desktop, the big paper idea is effective and helpful because it contains more details and possibilities. Whereas considering a wider range web user, going mobile first seems more important and necessary.Even Google has just announced that their future websites are going mobil e first. Currently, smartphones are playing critical roles in peoples daily lives. People can get information more quickly and effectively through mobile web. Base on the increasing rate of mobile web users, mobile web will definitely limiting the structure of the Internet even computer companies. Designing a website on mobile devices more emphasizes on function and big paper idea will not be suitable for a small screen. Overall, the PBS KIDS GO as a great palette, it is so active but not messing with the colorful content. It also balances the relationship between tidiness and excitement. The beat out design is really attractive for kids. Although the grid design feels a short redundant for me, it is direct and convenient for children. The only thing I touch was when I tested the website through both dolphin and chrome browsers on my cell phone, the grid did not slide smoothly. But since the mobile users are so few, it does not affect the user experience generally.