How did you author (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
I chose to take a photo of my pantry as I feel it represents bad design. When Donald Norman says:
“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.”
I found this to be true as when searching for good designed products around my house it was fairly difficult. However, when looking for an example of poor design around my house it was quite easy and I decided on my pantry within a couple of seconds. The pantry in my kitchen is a very awkward shape. As it is in a corner products on the sides are very accessible, however reaching for products in the centre is very hard as it very deep and things tend to get lost back there. Combine this with the pantry’s height, which means you have to get a chair or stool to reach anything on the top two shelves, makes it a poorly designed pantry and not a great use of space.
I took this photo on my Google Pixel 2 on the camera app. Compared to most of my other pictures taken for this assignment, this one was probably the quickest and easiest one. I took the photo by standing against the kitchen bench opposite to the pantry to keep steady and to use as a reference point. I then opened the pantry door and got back against the bench and felt around for the right position as before. I then uploaded both to Instagram without any modifications or editing as I felt the photos didn’t need them.
How did you publish (the photo or video) you recorded for upload to Instagram?
I took two photos of the pantry. I didn’t take anymore than the two uploaded as they matched fairly well in terms of staging, meaning that the most noticeable difference is the open door. I added the caption “Bad design screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable”. I then realised later that I forgot to cite Donald Norman for the quote so I went back later and did that. I decided not to tag anybody and didn’t include any hashtags. I included the location as “My kitchen”, although not an actual location as tag as when you try to press it nothing happens.
How did you distribute (the photo or video) you published on Instagram to other social media services?
Hashtags and location tags help with distribution, however as this post has no hashtags and the location tag doesn’t show the actual location, I expect distribution amongst other users on the network to be low. I also uploaded the images to Twitter and Facebook from the Instagram app by turning on the “Share to Twitter” and “Share to Facebook” options. This automatically uploads the video to Twitter and Facebook at the same time as Instagram. It doesn’t actually upload the image to Twitter but rather the caption with a link to the Instagram post. However, when you uploaded to Facebook from the Instagram app, it actually uploads the image and caption to your Facebook profile, as if it was uploaded from the Facebook app. The only way to tell it wasn’t uploaded from the Facebook app is that it says “uploaded to Instagram” underneath your name. As Facebook owns Instagram, the integration between the Instagram app and Facebook is better than the integration between the Twitter app and Instagram.