Day: September 14, 2020

Understanding the Relationships Between Interactive Strategies and Stakeholders Through Learner Centered Design Approaches

As interaction designers, our goal is to create user-friendly products. Satisfying users’ needs is the critical element and motivation to design. Nevertheless, the outcome of our designs not only has an impact on the users, but also on all stakeholders. The term of Learner Centered Design(LCD) has been addressed through the journal article ”Learner Centered…

Errors

1: Johannes Gutenberg was the first European invented movable type printing, and mass production of this technology, but it does not mean that he invented first, movable type printing was the earliest invention in the East.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Gutenberg 2: During the Eastern Han Dynasty (25-220 AD), an official named Cai Lun improved the technique after years of…

A conversation about affordances between Gibson and Norman

Recently, the concept of affordance has been increasingly interested in the design community because it describes the relationship between human users and designed products well. It was first introduced by the perceptual psychologist James Gibson: “The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes, either for good or…

Media Extension and Social Change

It is important to understand how small “media extension” affects “social change” and even the development of human history. Robert Bringhurst said, “Typography is the craft of endowing human language with a durable visual form”. The greatness of movable type lies in its realization of template based on the original woodblock printing, which makes the…

The Challenges of Incorporating Technological Tools in Online Learning Environment

I believe everyone is new to face these challenges which are having class online; a traditional face-to-face learning environment usually involves students, the instructor, and the learning materials. But in an online learning environment, four kinds of interaction that can occur when learning takes place via the Internet: (1) learner-content, (2) learner-instructor, (3 learner-learner, and…

Reflection on the influence of movable type printing in the Renaissance and interactive design

As an interaction designer, what we have to do is to provide humans with more ways to communicate, including between people and between people with objects. And movable type printing is equivalent to the ancestor of interaction. The emergence of movable type printing provides the initial interaction method for human beings. China invented movable type…

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