TEDs Talk – Johannes Gutenberg in the mid 15th century rather in 1445. Moveable type in Easter culture in 1045-1054 rather than 1041-1048. Gutenberg made the technology practical not Gutenberg press. He just made it better and accessible. The very rich was the one who had access to the book not just the monks and…
The Essence of Empathic Design
As an interaction designer, not only they are trained to be good listeners when it comes to interviewing their users, but also they are required to have keen observation skills to test their products by the users. Therefore, there is a set of techniques called empathic design that can help designers and researchers to achieve…
Prototyping Social Interaction
Silicon Valley is a land of prototypes.2 There is disagreement on the claim since in tech industry, prototype is the core in figuring out the big startup idea. So what is prototype? Prototyping is an experimental process where design teams implement ideas into tangible forms from paper to digital.3 This might sound intuitive at first…
The essentiality of good design within affordable housing
To many, the words “good design” invokes images of aesthetics and pleasurable visuals. The common misconception is that design is an expendable amenity, especially when it comes to affordable housing. If the focus is to keep things within budget, why waste money on design? The paper “Bringing the Power of Design to Affordable Housing: The…
Importance of Moveable Type & the Renaissance
The understanding of movable type as well as the era of the Renaissance is important because it is the foundation of all design languages. We take for granted the fact that current day design aspects are due in part to old practices of designing. Without movable type, the way of printing and information would not…
The Impact of Online Learning
As many students across the world face the problem of social distancing and needing to focus on online learning options, we must make the best use of this circumstance and benefit from it. According to Aytekin Isman, the issue of the students interaction in the virtual classroom is a very prevalent issue. The current circumstance…
Bonus Writing: The History of Books Errors
In the TEDx talk about the history of books, there are a couple historical inconsistencies. The first one I found was about the claim that the codexes from Greece and Mesoamerica was the first written book, created in the 4th century and the 11th century respectively. However, in the 3rd century, Sumerians in Mesopotamia had…
Why almost all the UI on cellphone getting flat
Back in 2011, the year smartphones started to be popular, UI that design by difference is all still in realistic style: Apple’s IOS 4, Samsung’s TouchWiz 4.0, or HTC sense 3.0 were all designed this way. However, in 2013, Apple became the first company that made a lot of changes in its UI design. During…
The Importance of Understanding Moveable Types and Renaissance as an Interaction Designer
As mentioned in the lecture video that the web consists a lot of types from the early days. There are a ton of new types created everyday for specific needs. Types serve as a medium for communication. It is like a mass production that is similar to the invention of the movable types. The information…
Understanding Moveable Type as Interaction Designers
As interaction designers and citizens of digital environments, we are constantly scrolling through news of the latest advancements and innovations in technology. It’s easy to neglect the idea that at one point, the technology we take for granted today was considered ground-breaking innovation. Particularly in the case of moveable type, the multiplicity and speed at…
Error
The video said that the movable type was invented in China around 1045-1058. But actually, the movable type was invented during the Northern Song Dynasty (1041-1048) The video said that Chinese people invented the paper 2000 years ago(179-41BC). But the earliest paper found in China is around 206-8 BC. Cai Lun improved papermaking skills during…
The importance of history for Interaction Design
As an interaction designer, it is very important to know the history of interaction design. On the one hand, learning history can help us understand where are the things that we learn and make come from. On the other hand, the experience from the predecessors will also enlighten us. These will help us find and…
User Research Matters.
Although many case studies have been conducted to understand the effects that user research can have on the design process and its outcomes. One particular study was done that focused on 8 products and 104 users. The study was done in Turkey, which has been on the slower side of the industrial design industry, often…
The new approaches to human-computer-interaction due to the Brain-computer interfaces
With the development of science and technology, the methods of human-computer interaction are likely to change in the future. People may no longer interact with computers through their hands, eyes, and other senses. Human beings seem to be able to communicate with machines directly through their own consciousness because of the Brain-computer interface technology. Because…
Origins of Design Process through Moveable Type
As an interaction designer our products are nothing without the users interacting with them. We rely on our users to be able to process the information we are sharing through our intentionality. The emergence of moveable type was huge for the beginning of design as it allowed for the replication of text which meant that…
Our relationship with Moveable Type and The Renaissance
Moveable type was founded around 1041-1048 in China, the very early version of moveable types were made out of wood or clay for people to carve characters on to create texts, slowly it replaces handwritings. It is very limited in how many words a person is able to write by hand, so people being able…
Why Understand Moveable Type and Renaissance is Important to Interaction Designer
To understand the invention time during the Renaissance and the moveable type is important for the interaction designer. The job of the interaction designer is to figure out problems and to create better interactive experiences between humans and products. This is why we should learn about technology from different time periods so we can learn…
Reflect on interaction design through understanding of universal design
As an interaction designer, our biggest goal is to make the product available to all users as much as possible. Through reading the fourth chapter of the book “Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education”. I learned that if a design can be used by the disabled, it can be used by all. The core idea…
Errors
The first error I found out was the age shown below, it should be 1045-1048(Northern Song Dynasty). The second error I found out was the Chinese characters on the image should be carved in a reversed way, and also should not be a simplified form. The earliest date of the invention of paper could be…
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…