[Tool Name] Review

by [Your Name]

Description

This section should include a basic overview of the purpose of the tool and any resources required to use it. You may quote from the tool's website, but keep in mind that this is meant to be an honest evaluation of the tool and should be void of marketing and promotional hyperbole.

Access

The cost of the tool and where to find it.

Sample Usage

Include any sample media objects you made using this tool

Tips, tricks, and tutorials

What should a first time user know about using this tool?

What the Tool Does Well

Pretty self-explanatory.

What it Does Poorly

Also self-explanatory

What happens when you...

What are some uses of it that are perhaps unanticipated by the company? How might a user challenge the tool's systems & affordances rather than simply accepting it at face value? To think about how you might "misuse" the tool, consider the following questions (this section should move beyond answering these questions to using the ideas that arise from these questions to create different kinds of media objects):

• What kinds of communication are foregrounded with the tool? What is left out?
• Whose point of view does the tool represent? What are some audiences that may be overlooked?
• Does the media produced by the tool seem to share certain aesthetic or design principles?
• What new sign systems might develop out of this tool? 
• How might noise be introduced into the tool's communication processes?
• Most tools rely on what scholars like Gaviria might call a "functional aesthetic." How might the tool be used to create "research art," i.e. art that evokes a visceral or affective response in the viewer (this kind of art might privilege fragmentation, non-linearity, unintelligibility, disjunction, the sublime, the uncanny)?

Additional Resources

links to more information, similar or competitive products, etc.