Design for people, not the designer To design a user-centric product or service, I have to keep reminding myself that design is about people. Design is different than art. The purpose of design is not to express ideas, but to bring people a better life. Even though, I admit that I still having moments design products for user from my perspective. Therefore, I hope I can always remind myself to...
With the globalization of art and designs, perspectives of one’s design and the identity of the work become important. Cultures, languages, and history are all very important elements in shaping design identities so I studied my cultural history and other East Asia design histories to have a better understanding of the art of design. Even the word ‘design’ in the context go East Asia holds...
As an artist, I will not judge the art of others from my perspective. Just as the art of ‘I’ should be respected, I will respect it as another art of ‘I’. I will not turn a blind eye to the pain and shares of life experienced by fellow artists. I will oppose violence in the name of solidarity or cooperation. I declare that I am one of the ‘us’ that makes up a...
Ada and Babbage Ada Lovelace, a bright minded mathematician who came up with the first computer program before computers were really a thing. Babbage created the first “computer,” a steam powered machine that was a big calculator. His problem was finding a program that would run the machine in a manner that would work how he envisioned. He asked Ada t translate an Italian...
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...
Empathy is the ability to understand and identify with the context, emotions, goals, and motivations of others. In order to design great user experiences, successful design actively seeks empathy for its target users. Empathy is used in the design process to gather subjective information on the one hand and analyze it objectively on the other. The best way to gather subjective information is to...
Interaction design is all about creating a conversation between the user and the product. Just think about an ATM: your goal is to get money from it when you visit the ATM. Now there are three ways by which you can interact with the machine: with the help of voice command, by using the touchpad, with the help of the touchscreen. Interaction design is all about deciding which would be the most...
In ‘Aesthetic Interaction: A Framework,’ professors Paul Locher, Kees Overbeeke, and Stephan Wensveen introduce us to a different kind of aesthetics, this one residing within a product’s relationship to its users. Words we might find familiar in conversations about aesthetics—e.g., fun, engagement, and delight—are considered too ambiguous to properly describe the effects of aesthetic interactive...
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...
Implicit interactions could be broken down as: something “that does not require explicit commands from a user, i.e., a system can take appropriate actions to support a user’s primary task or related tasks autonomously.1” This idea is something that is not as fully fleshed out when it comes to computer human implicit interactions because those small interactions often are overlooked and we do not...
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...
The context in which we receive the information will affect our interpretation of the information, our opinion, and the decisions we make. Therefore, studying history is a positive way to add context to our better understanding of design. As an interaction designer, understanding the background of moveable type and the Renaissance as a time of invention is important. When we use different fonts...
This academic journal essay is about design thinking. How design thinking works in libraries. A design approach to the delivery of outstanding services can help library professionals become strategizers and problem-solvers who put the user experience first. As Roger Martin says: “A way of approaching business problems in the same way that the designer approaches a design problem.” One that begins...
• 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...
Renaissance-era starts in Florence and spread throughout Italy. Leonardo Da Vinci studied Anthropometry, the measurement of a human individual, which today plays a role in Computer design such as accessibility, simplicity of instructions, and ergonomics. Around this time, he also studied the flight of birds as a reference to designing a flying machine for people. Movable type started in Northern...
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...
As mentioned in the video, Maco Polo helps the spread of moveable type to the world with new renovations. Vinci’s design amazes people with how advanced his thinking is. His anthropometric continues to guide and influence creators in different fields of design and the simplicity of instructions he creates on the artwork itself is what we look up to. The importance of studying his artwork is...
In relation to the Renaissance, as Johan Burkhardt describes it, “a self-conscious golden age bursting with culture, art, discovery, and vying with the ancients for the title of Europe’s most glorious age.” The Renaissance saw some great artists, along with other scientists, politicians, etc., allowed Europe to open up new cultures and histories. It also lays the foundation for...