READING ACTIVITY No.

Read the following text and do the activities proposed, to practice the different
reading strategies you have learned.

Pre- reading. Skimming.

Skim the article. Choose the correct answer.

The purpose of the article is to ___________.

a. explain how difficult it is to design huge websites
b. discuss some lessons in huge website design
c. explore the common challenges of digital design

Read the passage. Check your prediction.

JULIAN DANOBIS TRUJILLO TRUJILLO

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Summarizing key points.

Complete the notes summarizing Margaret Gould Stewart's experiences.

Lessons from Stewart's experiences

Facebook

Situation
your friends
People used a tool for reporting spam to report photos of ______________________ that they
didn't like.

What Facebook did

report to
Facebook added a feature that allowed people to _______________________ their friend to take
down the photo and explain how the photo made them feel.

Lesson
make decisions
Data is important in helping designers ___________________________, but it must be looked at
carefully.

YouTube

Situation
People only used _______________________
the highest rating or the lowest
and ratings on a five-star rating system.

What YouTube did

data
YouTube shared _______________________ about how people were using its rating system
up
before simplifying it to either thumbs ______________or down
thumbs _______________.

Lesson
change
It's important to manage _____________________ carefully.

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 Building vocabulary.

Match the words in blue from the passage to their definitions.

1 unwanted emails attached 4

2 to make someone more likely to do impact

something. 5
3 annoying, irritating encourage 2

4 having a strong liking for something frustrating

3

5 an effect spam 1

Source: Dummett , P., Stephenson , H., Lansford , L. (2017). Keynote 3. TED TALKS. Cengage
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