This is another area Udemy could have provided a better design. While It shows the logos of various companies that put their trust in Udemy, it does not actually give their names. For some users, the 'P&G' logo does not mean much, nor does the first logo which to some would just look like a V on top of a W. Better naming and even hyperlinks to these companies would help users understand which companies are being shown here.

This area is a footer which provides an excellent catalog of options Udemy can offer users if they were still scrolling down to look for something more. It provides hyperlinks to various course areas, information about Udemy itself, legal and privacy notices, and also a link to control cookie settings for the user. The text is organized in an orderly and neat fashion with enough spacing between areas so as to let the user focus on one area without their eyes being disorientated from nearby text from other columns.

This area is not as great as the other parts of the Udemy web page. It has short titles and descriptions of various areas that a user can focus on depending upon their goals. However, the first option provides no hyperlink, and selecting it only brings up an image on the right side associated with the possible goal. This image is also very small, and hard to understand, as it shows text that can be incredibly small, and visual information that will not be understandable to a user unless explained in detail.

The 'Trending Courses' page is an excellent introduction to how Udemy shows its courses in other pages such as when a user is using the explore functionality. At a glance, the user can see the thumbnail for a course, the title of a course, the author(s) of the course, the rating of the course and how many people rated it, along with the cost of a course. When the user hovers over a course in this area, it will expand the details of the course in a short point format, so a user can further understand the course without being overwhelmed or exhausted by a large amount of information.

The 'Trending Now' page is very useful to get a quick overview of what courses are being looked at the majority of Udemy users. It provides columns, and under those columns are groups which many courses can be under. It shows the overall number of learners in these groups and provides a hyperlink to easily navigate to the exploration of the group in question to find courses that best fit a user.

The very small start-up effort is designed to allow small contributions

https://colourblind-palette-maker.glitch.me/

This is a very useful but underutilized property. It allows you to e.g. announce in advance that a resource will exist at some point in the future, and thereby effectively receive "updates" to the linking document without requiring changes to the document itself.

https://silviamaggidesign.com/design/ravelry-rebranding/

This appeal would have a greater effect if it weren't itself published in a format that exhibits so much of what was less desirable of the pre-modern Web—fixed layouts that show no concern for how I'm viewing this page and causes horizontal scrollbars, overly stylized MySpace-ish presentation, and a general imposition of the author's preferences and affinity for kitsch above all else—all things that we don't want.

I say this as someone who is not a fan of the trends in the modern Web. Responsive layouts and legible typography are not casualties of the modern Web, however. Rather, they exhibit the best parts of its maturation. If we can move the Web out of adolescence and get rid of the troublesome aspects, we'd be doing pretty good.

on top stacked laying flat on the left side, next to a potted plant on the right two other books to the right of the plant, spines not visible

tools for thought rheingold MIT Press logo concept design: the essence of software jackson designing constructionist futures nathan holbert, matthew berland, and yasmin b. kafai, editors MIT Press logo structure and interpretation of computer programs second edition abelson and sussman MIT Press Indroduction to the theory of computation

top shelf ordinary orientation: books upright, spines facing out tops leaning to the left

toward a theory of instruction bruner belknap / harvard tools for conviviality ivan illich harper & row the human interface raskin addison wesley the design of everyday things don norman basic books changing minds disessa MIT Press logo mindstorms seymour papert unknown logo understanding computers and cognition winograd and flores addison wesley software abstraction jackson revised edition MIT Press logo living with complexity norman MIT Press logo the art of doing science and engineering—learning to learn richard w. hamming stripe press logo the computer boys take over ensmenger recoding gender abbate MIT Press logo weaving the web tim berners-lee harper dealers of lightning: xerox parc and the dawn of the computer age michael a hiltik harper the dream machine m. mitchell waldrop stripe press logo from counterculture to cyberculture fred turner chicago the innovators walter isaacson simon & schuster paperbacks a people's history of computing in the united states joy lisi rankin harvard the media lab stewart brand penguin logo

bottom shelf ordinary orientation: books upright, spines facing out tops leaning to the right

about face: the essentials of interaction design cooper, reimann, cronin, noessel 4th edition wiley the new media reader wardrip, fruin, and montfort, editors designing interactions bill moggridge includes DVD MIT Press logo interactive programming environments barstow, shrobe, sanderwall mcgraw hill visual programming shu software visualization editors: stasko, domingue, brown, price MIT Press logo types and programming languages pierce MIT Press logo smalltalk-80: the interactive programming environment goldberg addison wesley constructing the user... statecharts qa 76.9 .u83 h66 1999 the human use of human beings: cybernetics and society wiener da capo pasteur's quadrant stokes brookings scientific freedom: the elixir of civilization donald w. braben stripe press logo a pattern language alexander, ishikawa, silverstein, jacobson, fiksdahl-king, angel oxford the timeless way of building alexander oxford

Not accessible.

https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/a-web-for-all/

I've noted elsewhere that despite the reputation of WYSIWYG editors' tendencies for handling HTML, modern mainstream Web development practices are so bad today that just typing a bunch of junk into LibreOffice and saving as HTML results in one of the most economical ways to do painless authoring of Web content...

https://benmyers.dev/blog/on-the-dl/

Curious double entendre title here.

Note to self: I should use these patterns more.

Fortunately Google's ranking algorithm penalizes against this in addition to requirements for better online accessibility that help to encourage against these sorts of dark patterns of web design. Users still need to be aware that they exist however.

This article is based around the idea that online education increases access for learners but lacks in completion data. This article provides data around the United States from a study conducted over a few years. Generally speaking this article encourages blended learning rather than all online to obtain better outcomes for adult learners. Rating 7/10 for use of graphs and evidence from data.

So many challenges here, and we really must address all of them. I'm also interested in learning how to make sure my websites and other affordances I use are accessible to people with disabilities.