DISCUSSION 1: "Quality of Service" Please respond to the following:
Your design team presents a project to you, in which most inputs seem to have about a 1.5-second delay before a response. The lead designer has decided this response is acceptable. Analyze response-time models and decide if the response time in the presented project is acceptable. Explain why it is or is not.
Evaluate the importance quality of service has to designers. Choose two areas you would focus your attention to ensure quality of service for a team of designers that you were managing. Justify your choices.
DISCUSSION 2: "Balancing Function and Fashion" Please respond to the following:
Error messages are a key part of an overall interface design strategy of guidance for the user. Discuss strategies to ensure integrated, coordinated error messages that are consistent across an application.
Choose the one topic (error messages, non-anthropomorphic design, display design, window design, and color) that creates the biggest challenge to achieving balance between function and fashion. Support your response.