User Experience

This is a video that explains why the user experience is so important to Websites or potentially any other project that you can do. This is a topic I need to learn more about to improve my web design skills and continuously strive to improve upon

Personal Statement

My name is Robert Holland and I am currently a multimedia designer.  I’m highly motivated and passionate about what I enjoy. I’m very determined to succeed in everything I do. I can work very well in a team and can often help in the team with complicated problems that the rest of the team may not understand.

I have always had an interest in why certain objects we use look like they do, and even more of an interest in how the software used in computers, the internet, phones and tablets work and how they are made with particular reference to the coding and science elements contained in the back end rather than the front end.

I am applying for this course because I would like to enhance my current knowledge of computer programming and the science that is contained within the back end such as physics in video games.  I also would like to gain knowledge

 in algorithms that may one day help me when I create my own websites and programmes in the future.

The subject that I am studying at Coleg Gwent, City of Newport Campus has a brief relation to the course I have chosen via the scripting of different programs

for different media.  As my intended career path relates to the course I have chosen I continually strive to improve my knowledge and skill base in these areas.

I already have a small amount of experience in programming as I have been involved in a group project to program a basic social network website plus I have designed and developed my own website which I plan to use as the start up website for when my own business launches. I would like to further develop these skills that I have attained with a better practical approach with I can achieve by studying this course.

My hobbies outside of computers involve gaming, martial arts, running and cycling among many other things. I participate in these sports because they can give you a lot of alone time that leaves you free to generate new ideas and think of things in a different perspective than you normally would. I have also taken part in the 2011 Cardiff Half Marathon and finished with a time of 1:45:00. I also used to participate in martial arts in which I achieved a brown belt.

In the future I wish to become a freelance web designer for a while. Then start up my own companies including my own online shop, a personal software development company and my own social network.

The people that inspire me include Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs among others.  The reason being is that they revolutionised technology and how we use it in our everyday lives and without their innovative thinking this would still be a dream and not a reality.