Photoshop Date created: 1988 (The software was originally developed in 1987 by the Knoll brothers, and then was sold to Adobe Systems Inc. in 1988.) Created by: brothers Thomas and John Knoll. Function: a simple solution for displaying grayscale images on monochrome displays. The photos above of the Knoll Brothers were taken by Jeff Schewe, you can see more of his portfolio here. Jeff...
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In Season 4 of Black Mirror, some of the technology presented in it is alarmingly close to reality. The most feasible tech in this season centers around online dating, like what is shown in the episode Hang the DJ, there are plenty of companies working to figure out how to get you a perfect match with incredibly high tech ways. Some smart technology is becoming more and more ingrained into our...
Inclusive design can make our design more universal, eliminate the physical and psychological barriers of products for people with disabilities. When I was watching the video Disability and Innovation: Universal Benefits of Accessibility, the speaker Haben Girma mentioned that inclusive design not only benefits people with disbilities, but actually everyone of us. If we make designs available and...
Works Cited Celebrating America’s Pioneer Black Graphic Designers: Emmett McBain (1935 – 2012) | Octane. 16 Feb. 2021, lexoctane.com/?p=14874. Clarke, Andrew. “Inspired Design Decisions with Emmett McBain: Art Direction as Social Equity.” Smashing Magazine, 28 July 2020, www.smashingmagazine.com/2020/07/inspired-design-decisions-emmett-mcbain/. McBain, Emmett. “The Modernist.” The Modernist, 7...
In my interaction design studies at California College of the Arts, I find myself designing on and for physical screens. I ponder the size of each icon (can a user easily tap it?), the micro-interactions lacing a scroll, pinch, or press-and-hold, adjustments from screen to screen (responsive design) and more. All of these activities rely on a physicality that seems like nothing more than common...
Zhuofan-Yuan-Bio-Julie-Zhuo-6Download I was deeply inspired by browsing and learning about this designer’s story. I learned the difference between management and leadership. In a design team, each designer has different tasks and responsibilities. But leadership is something that everyone in the group needs to have. It will lead your group through the project and to success. When Julie was...
Photo by Bermon Painter Catt Small is a 22-year-old user experience designer and game developer born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She started coding websites and games at the age of ten, her initial inspiration for what she does today. I chose to write about her because she is a young designer and loves games just like I do. In this article, I’m going to go over her internships, events, and...
Black Mirror is a Netflix anthology series exploring the darkness of technology and its uses in the near future. It’s easy to see why it’s become so popular with mainstream audiences: the tech itself is at once wildly inventive and shockingly close to digital tools in our lives today. In addition, the show touches on familiar life things like dating, politics, workplace culture, and...
Information architecture and interaction design are interconnected. When interaction designer research and builds amazing experiences for users, information architects focus on developing, organizing, structuring, labeling information, and content in an effective way to enhance good experiences. My friends always describe me as a food lover. Since I am living alone I always go on apps like Uber...
I think it’s an exciting and necessary idea. I like walking, and I’ve fantasized about my life if I were blind. It would be so scary that I wouldn’t even be able to walk out the door. According to my observation, shops, streets, and houses in the United States are all wheelchair friendly for the disabled, but there are no corresponding facilities for the blind. In my opinion...
A 7 minute Documentary about Audrey Liu Works Cited ⚡, Koji Pereira. “Meaning and Purpose on Design Teams with Audrey Liu, VP Design - Lyft.” Medium, Lyft Design+, 4 May 2021, . Audrey Liu – Vp, Head of Design – Lyft | LinkedIn. . “Audrey Liu.” Women Talk Design, . Audrey Liu: Incentivize Creative Teams with … – Youtube.com. . Behance, Inc. “Audrey Liu: Incentivize...
Good design can evoke the bright side of humanity.Attend the needs of the weak and underprivileged groups.Softness and curiosity are the needles to sew pieces together. I grew up in a happy and pure environment, where everyone I met showered me kindness. The light of humanity shone so brightly in my memory that it completely overshadowed the dark places, and I can see that the power of the...
I want to talk about one of my project which is related to accessibility. I’ve redesigned Spotify for hearing accessibility person. First of all, I want to mention it, I struggled a lot from research to design. Because it was hard to interview person who has hard of hearing. I post at community and welfare center. But the staff at there doesn’t want me to post there. So I had to...
This is a rather unique experience of mine — I was participating in a closed beta of a video game called Rainbow Six Extraction a few months ago, a title created by the game company Ubisoft. There are some interesting points that stood out to me throughout my first gameplay. The first one being when I just started the game to enter the setup menu, I have immediately noticed that everything...
Muriel Cooper’s demo of information presented in a typographic landscape is truly ahead of its time. What was demonstrated was not simply a 3D layout of type, it was something that was way before the tech world imagined any technology that could utilize such a human-computer experience. As an exploration of the idea, Cooper’s demo was flawed, limited and very prototypical. The...
From today’s perspective, Pong is a game too simple to be enjoyed by most, and Oregon Trail is lacking in immersion compared to more interactive experiences such as Red Dead Redemption. But I am also starting to see why these games could gain the success that they had at their times. Pong being one of the first well known video games, is very simple at its core. But although it is as...
Xerox PARC was the pioneer behind the development of the earliest GUI systems, although they did not manage to capitalize on their own innovations well enough, its fundamentals and philosophies influenced many individuals such as Steve Jobs to really explore its potentials and eventually bring that idea forward in massively successful products like the Macintosh OS. These successes little by...