Kindergarteners are cool

6 year old Rylee is a kindergartener. Her and her family have recently gone to Florida and she told me all about it. Just a warning, 6 year olds tend to jump around a lot in their stories.

"I had an ear infection the day before we left so we had to get the drops before we left. The next day I felt way better though. We had to get ready and we had to do lots of things so then we got in the car and drove to the airport. When we left somebody brought the car over to my dads’ work and stuff. Then we got to the airport and we checked our bag and we got on the plane and we got our Ipad’s out. I had my Ipad. My apple Ipad. I was listening to music on it.

When we got off grandma and grandpa picked us up and we drove home to the lake. They had a work party so yeah. So we took a golf cart ride and then the next day we went to the pool because it was really nice. The next day they had to work though, and they work at the same job so later yeah.

Then we went to the beach and I got seashells and we jumped over waves that came. I got to pick which seashells we brought home and stuff like that. We played golf with grandma and grandpa though but it wasn’t normal golf. It was pickle golf but I guess there aren’t actual pickles though. I like pickles.

The thing I most remember is we went on this roller coaster and we went upside down most of the way and most of the time all of it was screaming and I won this big giant duck and I won this little tiny fish for Quinny (Her 2 year old sisters’ name is Quinn). And my big giant duck, it’s head was bigger than it’s body. I got the goodest one and guess what a little kid was doing? She was throwing a fit because she wanted the big one. So then they had to leave. That’s what happened. You get what you get and you don’t throw a fit. Seriously, she was like *imitation of a child wailing*. She was even stomping her feet. She was like this: *stomping* 'I want a big one'. I was actually kind of funny but I was trying not to laugh.

We got to see sting rays too. We saw them but they didn’t have the stinger on them. We had some shrimp and we put our hand down and guess what? One of them splashed my mom and my dad and Quinn was soaking wet. From feet to like hair were soaking and she didn’t like that very good.

We also went to this turtle thing where we had like 3D glasses and there was this big giant crab that was like *demonstration of imitating crab noises and claw pinching* and then this bird flyed down and almost grabbed us. I wasn’t scared.

We went to this dolphin show and we went to a shamu show. Do you even know what shamu is? *me saying ‘no’ because she is more intelligent than I*. Your older than me and you don’t even know what it is? Okay, so it’s a whale, and it’s called shamu. Really. I was sitting in the splash area. I was soaking wet. It was fun! *sudden realization* No it wasn’t. It wasn’t fun being soaking wet the entire way home.

And one time I saw a wasp.

When I got home Ali (her best friend) was like ‘I miss you. I miss you.’ and she squeezed me so hard I almost choked to death. She missed me so much.

My voice hurts"

Design

Design plays a more important role in our lives than most people ever realize. Everything has design to it even if it is poor design. There are different arrangments of things that make up design. When you change the location of the applesauce in your fridge, you are changing the design.

Good design should have a number of things. It should be appealing to your eyes to make you want to look at it. The color combinations and fonts can help to make people want to look at it more. Once you have someones attention with the appearance you need to make people actually want to read what you wrote. A good design should pull readers in on different areas on the page. you have to understand your readers and know what people will want to look at and what they will be to lazy to read. People like pictures, info graphics, and  big numbers so good design will play to that.



Design can make choices for people before they even know it. So many choices are made strictly on the design of things. You want to read, own, or experience something that is appealing to your eyes.

One example of this is buy things like cars. Your car needs to have good mileage, a good engine, nice tires (you can tell how much I know about cars), but above all else it has to look good. For a lot of people, including me, there isn't much to the decision. I don't know what features are good for a car to have and what aren't. If I was buying a car I would have my dad tell me which ones are best according to all the car stuff, and then pick the one that looks the coolest. That's just what would happen.

I went to a store while I was on vacation and come across bacon band aids. They were just like normal band aids, except they had pictures of bacon strips on the front. Right next to them were normal band aids priced at $1.98 or something. These do the exact same thing but the bacon ones were like 6 bucks. That is more that a 300% increase for bacon pictures. That is completely ridiculous but to be quite honest I contemplated buying them. For awhile.

In a lot of case, design is more important than cost, effectiveness, or anything else. It helps make decisions everyday even if you don't know it.