Digg Design Rationale

When creating this powerpoint, I was hoping to create a powerpoint that would help someone with no prior knowledge of Digg and all of its uses, understand more about the social media website. I also wanted to associate the powerpoint with the website by using similar colors, such as the white, green and blue hues that appear on the website in my project. This project helped me learn a lot about Digg, and I used information that would help other people understand more about it as well.

Some decisions I made were which information to post in my powerpoint that I found important, the use of the icons in the bottom of the page to decipher that it was indeed a Digg powerpoint and how I wanted each group of information to be animated. I wanted each group of information to seem important, so I had each slide's bullet points enter in a different way. The "personalized Digg" slide is the one that I made each bullet point inside the slide different to further emphasize the use of customization.

What I found most challenging, to be completely honest, was posting the powerpoint via slideshare. It was unable to work in the beginning, so, in an attempt to post my slideshow in time for grading, I simply took screen shots of the blog. I then asked my peers and my professor what I could possibly be doing wrong to prohibit my powerpoint from being submitted and after a few tries, my powerpoint was successfully uploaded onto slideshare. One other challenge I found was the ability to post the "Digg" and digg critter in my powerpoint succcessfully without the white space.

The way I solved the problem about the "Digg" logo and the "Digg" critter was by putting their images into photoshop and erasing the background. By erasing the background, saving it onto the desktop and placing the images into the powerpoint, they were able to be added into the presentation without any white background.

I am most proud of how uniform the project looks and how fluid the slides are. Collectively, all slides together look like a large continuation of a project, and everything is uniform. My main goal was to take the ideas Professor taught us and apply them to the project: uniformity, do not put everything in capital letters, and make sure there aren't too many bullet points per slide.

If I did things differently or had more time, I would have added different animations to the bulleted slides. I like the way that they are, but experimenting and adding different animations might make the project more upbeat and fun, like Digg really is.