1. I view design as a collaborative process whereas you always learn more about yourself, your team, your users, and your community. I want to use creative practices to address the deepest challenges our communities face. 2. I work toward sustainability. I believe our designs should last longer, function better and have less to none…
Manifesto: Acceptance of All
If I were to make the world a better place, I would start by helping the least privileged individuals to be recognized, respected, and included by people more privileged than them. For example, the disabled, people who are transgender, who are of color, etc. By helping the normalization and acceptance of these groups of people,…
Finding Deeper Meaning Past the Face of Design
As newly taught designers within the field of interaction (or any other field of design), we can easily decide to work for a company as long as we get paid. This can be a pitfall when the company starts to control the outcome of our designs to be tailored towards their own profitable gains. But,…
El – Manifesto
Art should be for everyone, regardless of class or economic status. Design should help with this. Design should be focused on redesigning what is broken before designing new systems just to patch up the old. Design should focus on how to design less products. How do you redesign waste and disposable mindsets? Design should be…
Movable type
It’s important to understand how print design, which is the grandfather of webpage design, got started. And that all stems back to moveable type on the printing press. This really solidified the design-by-grid method that has become a staple. Whether it’s become a staple because it’s good, or because we are used to it, I’m…
Bibliography- Early Cave Paintings turned Modern day Icons
Early cave paintings are some of the first marks we have found left by humans of long ago. Whether they were used to tell stories, give information, as art, or all of it, they remain a fascination of designers today. How do you convey so much information with just the few simple lines of an…
Why pioneer contributions to Interaction Design history matter?
When I checked her contribution to society and other men’s contributions to society online. I think everyone contributes to society, and these contributions are very important, regardless of hierarchy. But the strange thing is that the description of these contributions is strange. I have never seen the title being the first male. But Lillian Moller…
For a better world
Since I decided to pursue design, I could grasp to live in different countries, the UK, the USA, and my home country, South Korea. While staying in the UK, I faced an utterly exotic system compared to Korea. The different language was an obvious obstacle. The education was different: having 13th grade and a 3-year-long…
Manifesto of Brian Zhao
I lived in China for many years before I moved to America. I finished my elementary school and a part of junior high school there. During these 12 years, three relatives of mine left me. After I moved to America, I finished junior high and high school. And before I could even graduate from high…
