MY REFLECTION

My next reflection is on Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet-software. Excel is very useful to a variety of

different types of people, making it meet the principle of equitable use. For example, Excel can be useful
to teachers, students, business workers, moms and dads on a budget, etc. Excel also has a wide range of
flexibility in use, with its range of templates, tools, and uses. For instance, Excel can create simple
spreadsheets, graphs, tables and can also generate percentages, formulas, and insert SmartArt. The
rows and columns also are re-sizable for whatever the users wanted size is. Excel also has simple and
intuitive use since the design is easy to use and simple to understand. There is also a “review” tool
option to provide effective feedback after task completion. Excel also meets the perceptible information
design, due to its use of different modes (pictorial and printed). The tolerance for error principle is also
used in Excel since it has an edit tool, called “undo”. Excel also has a low physical effort, meaning it is
not too difficult to use and does not require much effort to understand. It provides an easy tool to click
on to save the document, can easily differentiate columns with multiple colors, and can even transform
written information into a graph or table form (with the push of only a couple keys). This type of
technology does not meet the size and space approach and use design since it does not require any
additional components (in a physical way) to accommodate to a user’s body size, posture, mobility, etc.