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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Millions of users daily drive an iPhone in the world today. No matter how heated the competition is throughout the years, Apple’s beloved smartphone would always find a way to stand out from the bunch and keep its userbase happy. The core of that amazing experience that keeps its users from switching away has always […]

Information Architecture is often described as the art and science of organizing and labeling sources of information such as websites and software to improve usability and findability. A great IA is the gateway to constructing a reliable online community, and that requires advanced knowledge from fields even beyond just art and design, including principles taken […]

Christopher Alexander encourages workspaces to be broken down into smaller groups, indicating that most people would feel oppressed to work with undifferentiated groups of people. This doesn’t just remain true, but is actually more embraced with better technologies and the progressive utilization of internet-based services like Slack nowadays. The philosophy that Alexander proposes would break […]

I am imagining the interaction between the brain and the body to be like controlling a muppet with strings, only that the “muppet” here is in a neural sense and the “strings” idea is representative of the sensors in the body. In this interface, human senses are represented visually, such as the sense of direction, […]