Memex, created by Vannevar Bush, was a proto-hypertext system described in his article “As We May Think.” It’s influence was taken for granted back then. However, the Memex system has created a large impact on the field of design. His inventions also helped the blogging scene take off. Blogging in 2003 was very important because…
It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, No it’s.. an Authoring and Collecting tool?
Vannevar Bush wanted a system, the Memex, that would unify a community of scholars to share information and knowledge. In “As We May Think” Bush mentions, “Certainly progress in photography is not going to stop.” And he certainly was right! He noticed that the development and innovation in cameras and film weren’t developed by just…
Abby Covert
Abby Covert is known for being one of the leading Informational Architecture Spokespersons. She started going to design conferences in her early years as a graphic designer. Covert recalled that she was so anxious that she would freeze during meet-and-greets and stay to herself. It was not until she moved to Chicago that she began…
From Memex to today’s application
Memex is the idea that first came out at “Mechanization and the Record” by Vannevar Bush. Back in the 1930s, Vannevar Bush was ahead of his time and wanted to improve the way people access, store, and communicate information. In this landmark article, he describes a hypothetical computer-like machine, the memex, which would help someone…
The Graphic Design Originator – Muriel Cooper
Muriel Cooper was a designer, researcher, and educator. Born in 1925 in Brookline, Boston, Massachusetts, and passed away in 1994, aged 68. She is best known for her accomplishment from being a graphic designer. Cooper received her BA from Ohio State University and her BS in education, also a BFA in design from MassArt. She…
Bauhaus’s philosophy can apply on interaction design
Bauhaus focused on the mass production of goods and how design could help everyday life. It was done to add soul to manufactured products and add social relevance to the arts. The rejection of ornamentation in favour of prioritising the function is Bauhaus’s philosophy.In interaction design, we need to focus on the function first(user experience),…
Amazing female game designer —-Dona Bailey
Dona Bailey was the programmer on a four-person team for the successful Atari arcade game Centipede in her first assignment. She was hired by Atari in 1980 and was the only female programmer in its nascent arcade division. When she left the much larger Atari two years later, she was still the only woman in…
We Are Deciding Our Future
Vannevar Bush’s idea “The Memex” used to be a new, complicated, and unreliable way of memorization for people in the 1930’s, but time turned it into a memory system on which modern people rely on. We changed complexity and reliability from synonyms to antonyms. Google has become the most popular search engine because they have…
Listen! Listen! Can’t you hear them?
We seek for a positive ethical role In the age of big data, we often hear our friends and family members talking about how they are worrying about their safety, from cameras on their phone and laptop, to their personal information; from how to make sure their uber/lyft driver is safe, to online dating. As…
From memex to Tiktok
Vannevar Bush published an essay in The Atlantic Monthly “As We May Think” in 1945. As early as the 1930s he was already ahead of his time in wanting to improve the way people accessed, stored, and communicated information. In this landmark article, he describes a hypothetical computer-like machine, the memex, which would help someone…
The Hidden Heroine: Annie Easley
Brian Zhao Erin Malone IXD History 26 September 2020 Annie Easley Annie Easley is NASA’s first African American computer and rocket scientist. She was born in Birmingham of Alabama on April twenty-third, 1933. Although the Jim Crow Laws were enforced in Alabama and the opportunities for African Americans to receive education were very limited at…
Create your own database in Douyin（KikTOK）
Van Neva Bush published a memory expansion program in 1945-MEMEX, which can display information stored on microfilm on a translucent screen. What he envisioned is this information compression and fast reading technology. Bush, who directed the “Manhattan Project” nuclear test, laid the foundation for current multimedia technology before the birth of computers. Bush’s Memex never…
Clement Mok
Clement Mok is many things—digital pioneer, serial entrepreneur, software publisher, and developer, author, design patent holder, even restaurateur—but beyond all else, Mok is a designer and his influence on the world is immeasurable. After graduating from ArtCenter’s Graphic Design program, he held design positions at CBS (then the number-one network) and design agency Donovan/Green. Thanks…
Grace Murray Hopper
Grace Murray Hopper was a computer scientist and mathematician whose career took shape from her work in analytic support in wartime. She was also the developer of the first compiler, a contributor to the program language COBOL, and later the developer of one of its progenitors. Her experience and philosophy have a huge impact on…
Idea From a True Pioneer
In the year of 1945, Vannevar Bush envisioned a pre-hypertext system or a machine named Memex in his article, As We May Think. Even though the Memex idea might not be so shocking and mind-blowing at the time it came out, it probably highly influenced the Internet and search engines that were invented decades later. …
Principles that sustained – From Bauhaus to Adobe XD
The teaching approaches of the Bauhaus is revolutionary. They let students thoroughly examine the basic elements of design in order to internalize them for later use. The idea is all designs should come from three elementary forms: square, triangle, and circle. To believe or not, we are still using that exact same principle to create…
Vannevar Bush – Machine to Human Mind
In Vannevar Bush’s essay “As We May Think” published in 1945, Bush depicted a hypothetical machine called the Memex. We can see many overlaps between Bush’s early picture of the Memex and our modern information-sharing model. Bush’s vision introduced a brand new way of accessing information. And his innovative idea behind the name was a revolution,…
Interaction Design ft. Bauhaus
I think Bauhaus is a movement that influences interaction design. Bauhaus’s philosophy celebrates functionalism, simplicity, and accessibility in design. It advocates the use of industrial materials and inter-disciplinary methods and techniques. And you can find the exact same qualities in interaction design. Interaction design requires a more human-centered approach to design, it focuses on the…
Jorge Arango: Make the complex clear
John Seungjun Cho Erin Malone IxD History 23 September 2020 Jorge Arango: Make the complex clear Jorge Arango, a professor in the CCA Interaction Design program, is an interaction designer who “architected digital experiences and made the complex clear” He works as a design consultant, which helps the organization have the same understanding and share…
Bush to Instagram
Bush claimed the web’s initial idea through memex, a machine recording collection of data, and the process of searching the data through examination. Bush also claims that the human mind is not like a machine: recognizing a single item gets spread by associated thoughts carried out in a web of the trail that is called…