While “interaction design” may itself be a newer term, its roots run deep, tangling with various other disciplines along the way. As such, we can’t hope to fully understand it (nor our own design practices) without tracing each connection to its origin. A quote about Leonardo Da Vinci encapsulates this idea very well: “…he painted it, he investigated...
In an application with many features, we might see various icons that represent different features. These simple and delicate representations help the users understand the purpose of the feature in different ways. Some icons use physical objects to make help users make associations, some icons visualize the content of the feature. However, these ways of conveying information through symbols have...
From my perspective, it is important for the interaction designer to have a basic background understanding of movable type printing. This helps give them ideas for icon and font design. And it is essential for the interaction designer to know the basics and some common practices. When doing this, one must learn to write characters in reverse with a Chinese brush. If interaction designers...
Petzinger believes, using symbols to communicate “represent a fundamental shift in our ancestor’s mental skills”, to abstract symbols like we mostly see and use today. Symbol makes it easy for fixing and transmitting knowledge through space and time. We start with drawings and symbols on the cave wall, then we end up using pictures and symbols on our phones and computer to communicate universally...
The picture above is Egyptian hieroglyphics, some of the symbols are relatively easy to understand words, people judge the meaning of the words by the appearance of the characters. Pictographs combine pictographic, syllabic, and alphabetic elements. From the picture above, we can see that some snakes, owls, people and birds, these very vivid symbols express their own meaning. The concept required...
The symbols seen across the world in caves have a similarity as seen in the image above. From North America, Europe, Australia, and Central Africa there are symbols being used. They all use these symbols to communicate an idea, a story, their history in a sense of pictures. The Symbols that once were used to tell a story were developed into a way to communicate, a writing system. The image above...
I think these two Icons are very similar. But they may mean different things. The original European hieroglyphs probably spoke more of the heart. This is more of an expression that this is an organ. The app’s image is more about liking. But they are all figurative representations of human emotions or thoughts. People can use symbols to express their inner thoughts or use symbols to record...
I’ve heard many history of language. And this is one that most detailed. I didn’t know there was that many variety of (history of latin) languages. Also I was surprised that there were few different perspective to see history of languages. I use Korean which is developed by Sejong the Great (the fourth ruler of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea). So when I learned about history of Korean...
The history of interaction design is a tangled web of other disciplines—human factors, industrial design, psychology, sociology, human-computer interaction coming out of computer science, graphic design, instructional design, technical writing, animation, engineering efficiency and other technical and artistic backgrounds. This course will touch on multiple aspects of these backgrounds to help...