Krista Donaldson is a Nova Scotia native, she is married and has two children. She is currently the CEO of Equalize Health, leading the development of models so medical technology is quickly brought up in market and scale. Krista has a BE in Engineering from Vanderbilt University, she has become a designer through practice over the years though. She now has an MSE (Product Design), MSME, and Ph.D...
Ye-Hwan Song Ye-hwan Song is a designer and developer. She is working on creating a free and experimental website away from the framework of existing templates-based websites. When she looked up the websites at the early internet world, she was shocked to see websites. This is because the web was being used as a place of free expression without any rules (e.g., fast...
I can see why The Oregon Trail game was one of the most played games, it brought interest not into the game, but also into the history of what could have happened for so many people. As I started to play the game, I found myself no knowing what to choose, I didn’t know which would be the smarter decision or how I would defeat the game in a sense. When a tragic event occurred it made me want...
The Oregon Trail The Oregon Trail is an educational computer game originally developed in 1971 by three student teachers, with the intention of teaching school children about the pioneer life on the Oregon Trail. Despite bugs, the game immediately gained popularity among students, with thousands of players monthly; it was so popular that it was eventually re-released as a standalone game...
This is a heuristic evaluation of my perspective that compares early GUIs to modern GUIs. Image source: Image source: A screenshot of my desktop (Apple MacBook Pro) What changed? Color: the immediate change that I see is color. Early GUIs only had black and white, while today we have all sorts of colors. Resolution & speed: today we have interfaces of high resolution leading to a higher speed...
Image source: Image source: The Oregon Trail The Oregon Trail is an educational game that launched in 1971, it attempts to simulate what it was like to travel the Oregon Trail in 1848. Why I think it became one of the most popular games of its time: Personalization I was asked to choose what the scope of my journey was, when to start my journey, what kind of person I would be (farmer, banker, or...
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The Oregon Trail was successful because it was engaging and well-designed. Players can choose which role they want to play and complete a series of tasks. It has uncomplicated but highly interactive pages. And I think this game gives the player a high degree of freedom. Because I think the products designed by designers should not only guide users to complete a specific task, but also give users...
I played the Oregon tail (1990), and for this game, I can see this being a very popular game at the time. Oregon tail feels like telling a story, but under the player’s controls for the autorun setup, and the sweet thing right here is the user can feel like they are involved in the story and see some visual movement on the screen, that’s ten times more interesting than looking at a storybook that...
Looking at the very first interfaces of a computer from Xerox star, we can see a lot of simulation and the same pattern of the layout. First, the layout of the desktop is almost the same as what we have now, with folders stacked one after another as the default arrangement. The icon for the folder and the text file is very similar to what we’ve been using till nowadays, the only difference for...
Pong was one of the first social games, a fact that the game’s creator, Bushnell, appreciated. He said, “it was very common to have a girl with a quarter in hand, pulled a guy off a barstool and said, ‘I’d like to play pong, and there’s nobody to play.'” It was a way you could play games you were sitting shoulder to shoulder. You could talk, you could laugh...
The graphical user interface in a 1984 Macintosh was pretty impressive, considering Microsoft Windows wasn’t even out yet, and computers were basically command-line interfaces at this time. So having a graphical desktop environment was pretty remarkable. The graphical interface in a 1984 Macintosh is black and white, and runs at 512 x 384 resolution — it was designed for a Mac with an...