Vannevar Bush described the “memex” in his 1945 article “ As We May Think”. This thing is similar to computers or smartphones. It is a device in which a person can store all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. The brilliance of the “memex” and how it tackles the problem of information access is by way of...
The original illustration accompanying Vannevar Bush’s “As We May Think,” published by The Atlantic in 1945. Like any other species, humankind learns through its senses. We are adaptive, finding new ways to level up in strength, comfort, and ease by changing our behaviors in the context of our environment. That said, humans stand apart for a reason. Our evolution has been aided...
Bellow is the results I got for Body and Spirit exercise in the Bauhaus Website. “Oskar Schlemmer’s iconic stage production highlighted the interconnectedness of costume, choreography, color, and music.Performance of these elements expressed the total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk), a central principle of the Bauhaus.” Below are my results from the Form and Color exercise of the...
What kind of world are you living in? What kind of changes do you want to see in the world? And how do you want to shape it? Juliana Rotich has been giving her best answers to those questions through what she has been doing. Born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1977, Juliana co-founded Ushahidi, an open-source project that allows users to crowdsource crisis information to...
“It’s kind of simple: I want to be alive and I want to breathe.” —— Amy Franceschini. Amy Franceschini is a contemporary American artist and designer born in Patterson, California in 1970. Patterson is a small town in California known as “the breadbasket of America”. Her work encompasses many aspects, including drawing, sculpture, design, net art, public art, and...
Holly Liu Women from all walks of life have faced inequality throughout their professional careers; these obstacles usually take the form of discrimination, lack of access, unconscious bias, and so on. Women lead only under 6% of the top 3,000 companies in the U.S., despite earning the majority of college degrees. On top of that, men are three times more likely to have been encouraged to take on...
The contribution of female scholars in the scientific community has always been indelible. Although the contribution of women is not as much as that of men, women have also made great contributions to society and the scientific community. But they also have various prejudices and obstacles in the process of their fruitful achievements. They can only rely on the struggle to break through...
Every bit of warmth in life is worth pursuing bravely. We hope to have a good imagination, to sense, to realize the origin of all things, to put commitments into practical actions, and to serve human society with simple and convenient design requirements. A beautiful and loving interpretation, giving more hope and expectations to the future world, taking the comfort and perfect experience of...
Empathy design is a user-centred approach that focuses on how users feel about products. What Happened to Empathic Design tells the story of empathic design in n Helsin, Finland. Although the term remains in the background in the current work, it is still very much alive. The empathic design originates from design practice. It is interpretative, but unlike ethnographic studies, it focuses on...
Fig. 1. onacleV and Phillip Gough, Reefs on the Edge, 2012. (a) Detail. (b) Close-up of tangible user interface (TUI) objects and film projection. (© Caitilin de Bérigny/ onacleV and Phillip Gough. Photo: Phillip Gough.) Education has made its way into Tangible User Interface Design, a user interface that is interacted through touch. Reefs on the Edge is an interactive installation on Climate...
Gender imbalance is a recurring topic in the IT industry, as women are underrepresented in this field. There are also many people who believe that there is a certain degree of prejudice and discrimination against women in the entire industry, because some people believe that women are less capable than men in technical work. In fact, the development of the computer industry has been inseparable...
I work out the thing that looks simple, but deep to study. As interaction designer most of the time we want to make our design clean and easy to follow, which mean it will look like an easy thing to do but it’s all designed from the study of our user. I follow user’s behavior on my design. We want to design the thing that follows user’s behavior, so it’s easier to use, as the placement of...
Reading through the materials of Lillian Gilbreth’s work I noticed that in addition to her contributions to engineering and design, Lillian Gilbreth is also an active voice for women. She has written several articles about why women should work, and she uses data and logic to prove that women are not inferior to men at work. She also encourages women to be educated and be confident. In one...
Empathy is an important element in design thinking. As a designer, the ability to empathize with the users means to see the world through their eyes and give our best attempt to imagine their experience, to set aside our own perspectives, and try to understand their needs and wants. (Devecchi and Guerrini Empathy and design. A new perspective) It is not hard to see why empathy is so important for...
Thinking of design manifestos of my own turned out to be a bit more difficult than I anticipated. At first, everything I thought of ended up feeling like bland, cliche statements that has already been said before, such as “be innovative” or “be people-centered”, but I feel like interaction design has more potential than that. As designers, we can design good things or bad...
As an interaction designer I want to design pages that make users happy I hope to reflect on the problems existing in the worldthrough artistic works. I wish I had better insight I hope I can use design software better 2021 hopes to make people’s lives safe and everything simple and easy. The last few years have been so chaotic that I hope everything will be safe and orderly this year. I...
“Your best and wisest refuge from all troubles is in your science.” Ada Lovelace Ada Lovelace, known as the first author of a computer program was born in 1815, a poet father that’s not around much, and a mathematics-loving mother. Ada is in a privileged position compared to other young women which allows her talent and hard work to seize the right opportunity given to success. Ada’s parents were...
There was no particular job as an artist in Korea. The art we thought of was mainly concurrently operated by the aristocratic class. In addition, there were skilled craftsmen who made luxury goods of the second class, but they were not called artists. At the end of the 19th century, the wave of the Western Industrial Revolution hit Korea, causing a crisis for Korean craftsmen. Rather than being...
What do I intend to do to make the world a better place as a designer? 1. Know the power of nature we have forgotten the power nature it holds. A lot can be learned from nature, it is our source of inspiration. The color, texture, warmth and coldness, light and dark, etc. 2. Live simple, design simple This applies to both life and design. Being a human in this word let’s do more by use...