In the 1930s, a man named Vannevar Bush suggested a memory augmentation device which would allow the user to link multiple ideas together and encourage the access of information based on association and context rather than rigid indexing. The user would be able to build a trail of many items and add to the statements…
Adele Goldberg
Adele Goldberg was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in Chicago, Illinois. After completing her bachelor’s degree in Mathematics at the University of Michigan, Adele started to think computing science as a possible career. She participated in developing the programming language and various concepts related to object-oriented programming as a computer scientist in the…
El _ Memex Reflection
The Memex, designed by Vannevar Bush was the first way to “link” information through a machine. Bush envisioned a system where one could pull up two different sources of information, and digitally link them. This was the first hyperlink, which later became a staple of the internet. In the early 2000’s, blogs were blowing up,…
Kim Goodwin – Author, Designing for the Digital Age. Design & product leadership consultant and executive.
Kim Goodwin has more than 25 years of work experience in user research and design, 22 years for leading teams and about 19 in teaching design and leadership skills. Kim spent 12 years in leading an integrated practice of interaction, visual, and industrial designer as VP & GM at Cooper. As a consultant, Kim helps…
From Memex to Instagram
Memex is the idea that first came out at “Mechanization and the Record” by Vannevar Bush. A few years later it is written down in “As We May Think.” Memex is like the base model of today’s personal computer. it first designed as a personal library, which collect all the data and information users might…
Extension of Ideas, Information, and the Mind
It is interesting to consider technology, particularly all the saved preferences and libraries we have collected in a sort of digital footprint. This concept of these libraries and preferences being preserved as an extension of our own memories was in a way being first imagined by engineers such as Vannevar Bush. Bush designed a machine…
Irene Au
Irene Au is a female user experience designer based in Palo Alto, California. She graduated from bachelor’s of science degree USC electrical and computer engineering and master’s of science degree from UIUC’s science in industrial engineering and human-computer interaction. Irene is also a person who has a lot of jobs, she is an executive, a yoga…
John Maeda – Elegant Simplicity
John Maeda was born in Seattle Washington in 1966 and is most known as a contemporary American designer of Japanese origin. His father owned a tofu factory where Maeda helped him with paperwork on the computer, jumpstarting his interest in computer science. He decided to study the subject at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, right around…
The First Lady of Engineering
Lillian Moller Gilbreth: Americas First Lady of Engineering Lillian Gilbreth, born May 24, 1978 in Oakland California, was a trailblazer in Industrial Engineering, Psychology, and Industrial Management. She began her journey as Americas First Lady of Engineering after she obtained her bachelors in English from Berkley, a Master degree in psychology, and becoming Frank Gilbreth’s,…
Bauhaus & Interaction Design
Bauhaus put forward three basic points: The new unity of art and technology: The purpose of design is people rather than products; Design must follow natural and objective laws. These viewpoints have played a positive role in the development of industrial design, making modern design gradually move from idealism to realism, which is replacing artistic…
Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid, in full Dame Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-born British architect known for her radical deconstructivist designs. In 2004 she became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.In February 2016, the month preceding her death, she became the first and only woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute…
The color and influence of Bauhaus
Bauhaus color education believes that the kingdom of colors has within it multidimensional possibilities. Each individual color is a universe in itself. I believe every designer is familiar with this kind of color wheel. The color wheel has been developed to this day, and its circular structure seems to come from the combination of different…
The system knows you more than yourself
Vannevar Bush in his “As We May think” mentioned that: “A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.” In order to make the record become useful, he raised the “Memex” which is combined with memory and extender. This…
Memex’s impact on the Internet recommendation system
Vannevar Bush published the famous “As We May Think” on The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945. In this article, he described an archiving and retrieval system called memex. This technology has laid a solid foundation for the rapidly developing search recommendation system. Memex provides information storage and access based on the relevant track of personal…
Susan Kare
Susan Kara is a pioneer graphic designer in San Francisco, California. In 2019, Susan Kara won the National Design Award for Lifetime Achievement. The first icon of apple was created by Susan Kara. Susan Kara has laid the foundation for the interaction between people and computers during her several years at Apple. Her work is…
Xia Peisu: Mother of Computer Science in China
Xia Peisu was an immortal woman that appears in Chinese history books all the time. She was a computer scientist and educator who is famous for her pioneering research in computer science and technology. As the main developer of China’s first indigenously designed general-purpose electronic computer, Model 107, she is known as “Mother of Computer…
The Guiding Significance of Bauhaus Philosophy to IXD
At the beginning of the 20th century, society was undergoing a comprehensive transformation of values, production and life. At that time, Bauhaus helped industrial designers solve the confusion faced by many opportunities and phenomena. Its philosophy provides designers with good ideas and guidance in material, color, structure and function. Today, Bauhaus philosophy is also helping…
Modern Memex: An Extension of User’s Brain
“A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.”This is a summary of the development of records mentioned by Vannevar Bush in “As We May Think”. It can also be regarded as the development goal of writing, photography, printing…
Janine Benyus
Janine Benyus is a biologist, science writer and co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 (consultancy) and Biomimicry Institute which deals with the study of nature and how it can inspire ideas in order to create designs with sustainable solutions. Born in 1958 in New York City, she graduated with a BS in Natural Resource Management and a…
Ellen Lupton – the True Influencer of Design Industry
Ellen Lupton‘s name might be a legend among all contemporary designers. She carries various titles & identities: writer, curator, educator, and designer. As the director of the Cooper-Hewitt Paul Warwick Thompson described as “a true polymath.” She has authored well-known books such as Thinking with Type, Graphic Design Thinking, Graphic Design: The New Basics, and Type on Screen….
