A Puzzle Piece to Life's Real-ITy

    My college life is nothing like those that I see in movies where students turn off their alarms at six o’clock in the morning to get ready and travel to school. In my reality, sleeping is not something I get to enjoy. Waking up when others are just about to sleep has been my routine for several months. Because of this, I tend to overestimate my ability to make sure I have enough time to travel the 30km distance from my house to the university. As someone who commutes from the province to the city every single day, estimating your travel time is a struggle. There are moments when leaving the house early would still result in late arrival, and sometimes, leaving late to arriving on time. It feels like a complicated puzzle, and just like any other problem to solve, can add up to stress.

     All these contribute to the reasons why as a software developer, the application I’d begin with would be a Traffic Monitoring App. Features of this app include a real-time tracker set to different areas all over the province and city known to be traffic heavy. This would aid private transportation owners and most especially daily commuters in estimating their travel time using different transportation means. The app would be available off and online, with the prior being limited to time-to-time updates on tracking areas, and the latter having access to maps and navigating tools that give shortcut options for you to use to avoid heavy traffic. To lessen stress, especially upon thinking if you’d have enough time to reach your destination given that speeds of different drivers and cars also vary,  your phone with the installed application would include a motion sensor that is connected to your mode of transport to provide with information with regards to your exact travel time from one destination to the next. Along with the real-time feature, this motion-tracking estimation can also shift per second based on the number of cars in the area.

    With the Traffic Monitoring app, traveling would be less hassle and stressful for daily commuters and students like me. I can adjust my readying time and ease the burden of stress from thinking about all possible scenarios of things we cannot personally control.

    It is something I would want for myself and my community. And IT-hink the same for you.

 

Photo references

https://www.rappler.com/newsbreak/inside-track/marcos-advisor-joey-concepcion-says-traffic-sign-booming-economy/

https://time.com/6173867/puzzles-solve-other-problems/

https://www.anyrgb.com/en-clipart-ycjz4

 

Development in Inclusivity: IT should be a thing!

    Each day comes with baggage we carry all through the course of our lives. This alone is one of the major reasons why making time for ourselves becomes an escape to breathe while carrying all these heavy feelings we have. If you ask me, a good breather comes in the form of books, sceneries, and technology. I love reading and traveling, and not a lot of people know, but every time academic responsibilities get the best out of me, I love to drown myself in editing. This is why if I did pursue an IT career, I’d see myself applying as a Web Designer.

A web designer mostly takes up the job of creating a layout of a website by making it look more appealing for visitors to see through the use of various design programs. They’re also the ones who think through the navigation of a site to provide maximum user experience (Coursera, 2023).

I cannot argue that the IT field is continuously evolving, not just in its widening area of specialties, but also in the huge development of service offerings. If I did become a web designer, I’d probably be applying all my expectations of innovation and efficiency to my developing site. Creating an online website that caters to clients' or visitors’ needs is a top priority. We’ve mostly seen some of it in the growing IT industry, but never I have seen one that mostly caters to people with disabilities.

Creating a site with customizable features by incorporating accessible considerations in the web designing process, doesn’t just promote development, but also inclusivity. These features I have in mind include voice-activated commands and reading features for easy navigation and text understanding for handicapped people and those who struggle with texts, resizing text without disrupting the site layout for those with eyesight problems, as well as automatic transcripts for videos and photos for those with hearing impairments.

The IT industry is sometimes overlooked by people because being a web developer or computer technician doesn’t sound as extravagant as being a lawyer or a doctor. They must’ve forgotten that the generation we live in is encompassed in the bubble of technology, and the people behind it are the reasons we have all these easy access to good life breathers, especially when you need one. 

References

Coursera (2023). What Does a Web Designer Do (and How Do I Become One)? Coursera. Retrieved at https://www.coursera.org/articles/web-designer 

https://www.bu.edu/lernet/artemis/years/2020/projects/FinalPresentations/HTML/career.html

https://betanews.com/2018/08/23/technology-changing-workplace/