Let’s design a better future. Source: unsplash.com We get it, plastic is such a useful compound to design with! It shields water, it’s cheap, it’s convenient, it makes for great containers, it can preserve, it can bend, it can be tough, and the list goes on. So what can’t it do? It can’t save our planet or the health of living beings. Everything we design ends up...
Ada Lovelace is the first person to write a computer program. She wrote it in the 1840s, 130 years before the first personal computer was ever put on sale. Ada was born in 1815 to poet Lord Byron and mathematician Lady Byron. The infamous poet abandoned her and her mother only one month after birth. Afraid her daughter would inherit her father’s volatility, Ada’s mother raised her...
Ada Lovelace Charles Babbage —— A mathematics professor at Cambridge University who today is commonly recognized as the father of the computer. Babbage’s most notable invention was the analytical engine a brass and iron steam-powered machine he first envisioned in 1837. In 1843, he asked Ada to translate a description of his engine written by an Italian mathematician over the next nine months...
Black people work to enhance the experiences of our community consistently. We fight every single day to design a world where we are seen, heard, and loved. Space-making is an iterative design process, and that is what UX design is about at its core—making space for users by improving usability, accessibility, and desirability.Jacquelyn Iyamah, “Black People Have Always Been UX...
• Decentralized, private, open, accessible secure and sustainable. • Functional and convenient and reliable. • Rhetorical, intuitive, purposeful, Delightful. • Build a finer, kinder, wiser, more equitable, more beautiful, more joyful world. As the world grows more complex and more uncertain, I believe our designers have a moral obligation and a unique ability to take on the greatest challenges...
1. Satisfy the customers’ demands. 2. Acknowledge all art forms are art. 3. One gives meaning to life when one lives to give. 4. Art and design should serve to create better lives for people rather than to be something untouchable, distant from people’s everyday life. These manifestos reflect my values and thoughts. I think it’s important to strengthen my understanding of human emotion, behavior...
Care for othersAcknowledge of privacyFull effort in every area of lifeWilling to learn Conscious actions (acknowledging actions have impact)Question/skeptical of what hear/readBe Disciplined Represent the customer in my designsBe myself in my workStand up for what is morally right in the work place My manifesto is a reflection of my beliefs, what my values are. As I learn and become an...