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Psychology is an integral part of human life. For this reason, it should come as no surprise that knowing and understanding the psychological effects of design gives designers an advantage. In Web Design, colors, fonts, graphics, and spacing, all impact the way people view the website. These factors determine the way users feel about theContinue reading “Psychology of Web Design”

Big companies are often criticized for their lack of involvement when it comes to efforts following a natural disaster, and their philanthropic efforts are many times mainly to shed a good light on their companies. TechCrunch tackled this topic following the Coronavirus pandemic, and how it not only has effected these companies, but how BigContinue reading “Coronavirus and How Big Tech is Doing Their Part”

With the threat of coronavirus causing widespread panic, the tech industry has been working around the clock to make it possible for the general public to self quarantine while continuing with daily life. Developers are currently making use of existing technologies to adapt to the needs of quarantined individuals. With the progression of the virusContinue reading “Developers Work to Make Transition to Self-Quarantine with Existing Technology”

It’s no surprise to me that online hate speech has been at a steady increase worldwide. Incidents have been reported on nearly every continent as more and more people move online. As online presence continues to increase globally people are far more likely to aim towards racism, misogyny, and homophobia. Societies confronting the issue mustContinue reading “Hate Speech on Social Media: A Global Comparison”

Founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma pledged to donated two million protective masked across Europe in response to the Coronavirus epidemic. A cargo plane with over 500,000 masks and test kits landing today in Italy and Belgium – with more flights due to arrive in the coming days. In addition to the supplies being shipped overContinue reading “Chinese Billionaire Donates Two Million Masks for Coronavirus in Europe”

Artificial intelligence is not new to biases. In fact, these machines typically can become more biased than humans themselves, and at a much faster rate. Many companies have learned this lesson the hard way. It came to knowledge that most of Amazon’s hires were men. Amazon uses an artificial intelligence machine to scan resumes andContinue reading “Artificial Intelligence: Workplace Bias”

From an article titled, “Designers should avoid pure black typography — but which dark gray should we use?” I expected that the article would talk a lot about grays, but that was not my experience. The first three paragraphs spoke about a company and how excited the author was to design for this company. IContinue reading “Information vs Advertisement”

Public health crises like the Coronavirus have many other subtle and less-noticed effects. We are also facing a war on privacy currently. Civil liberties and digital privacy is at risk due to new legislation that could ban encryption, authorize searches and surveillance, and much more. While everyone has their attention focused on the public healthContinue reading “Week 10: Civil Liberties and Public Health”

In the future self-driving cars will be all over the place. Creating new algorithms to help these cars navigate is important. This technology will make self-driving cars much more safe. With less opportunities for these cars to have accidents people will also feel more comfortable with the idea of self-driving. I can’t wait to seeContinue reading “Swarm AI helps avoid collisions and traffic jams”

Kevin Roose from the New York Times thinks working at home is overrated. He tells us this while working in sweatpants and eating his emergency rations. Many people during this time of the coronavirus are being sent home, students included. Even those of us here at FSU are being shut down for a while afterContinue reading “Quarantined & Working From Home”