Christopher Alexander had come up with many pattern designs for communities and public spaces. The one design that really stood out to me was his work community design. Christopher thinks that if people are spending as much time living in the workspace as they are living in their homes, then the workspace should be treated…
Healthy Workplace Practices
Christopher Alexander’s Patterns from A Pattern Language went over many cases and ideas he has about community and learning opportunities. In March of 2020, the world was struck with Covid19 which led to new forms of communication being created in need of a solution to talk to one another. We are forced to use apps…
Architecting Space to Digital Workplace
Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language inspired me to view architectural design in a completely different way. Before, I have never considered a workplace or a neighborhood that can be such a critical space for connecting people and improving their wellbeing. I always assumed that the architect’s job is to design and build appealing and functional buildings. Therefore,…
Bonus Writing – Space and Architect
Dimension It is surprising that information landscape had already depicted AR experience. The space that was able to move around, while maintain the reality like of the space and texts. What they get right was the move from 2D to 3D space, where user can move around to explore and pull out data. The legibility…
Interaction Spaces Within the Internet
Patterns from a Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander talks about the interactions between people in different spaces and architecture. One of the chapters, Work Community, closely talks about communities or gathering spaces in the workplace. Alexander talks about how a workplace should have clusters of workplaces, where each cluster would have its own public space,…
Christopher Alexander patterns – similarities and differences
Work Community to Slack First of all, tech companies tend to be decentralized, which makes it easier to communicate, connect and work within team. Christopher Community of 7000 pointed out the similar pattern was decentralize and close proximity of the work space. The visible location – by being visible makes it easier to reach out…
Relevance of Architecting spaces and interactive design
Christopher Alexander’s architectural thoughts about working communities and interaction design, which seem to be unrelated majors, are actually closely related. Christopher Alexander’s concept of working community is in accordance with slack’s design. Alexander wrote in # 82 Office Connection, “Trips need to be short enough so they are not felt a nuisance.” In Slack, we…
Demarcation of Work and Life
In Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language, he outlines various concepts in architecture that may be replicated to fit various contexts dependent on the inhabitants needs and behaviors. In more ways than one, these architectural patterns have persisted to the design of software. Rather than inhabiting spaces physically, digital users’ physical actions are responded to with…
Alexander’s Design Patterns
Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language described a practical architectural system in a form that a theoretical mathematician or computer scientist might call a generative grammar. It provides 253 patterns describing towns, neighborhoods, houses, gardens, rooms, and western structures. In Slack, there are large groups that contain all the IxD students and professors, also there are…
Visible language in space and architecture
The demo from the Visible Language Workshop reminds me of “Method of loci”. The method of loci (loci being Latin for “places”) is a strategy of memory enhancement that uses visualizations of familiar spatial environments in order to enhance the recall of information. People imagine putting all the information in a palace. And to classify,…
Sylvia Harris – A Citizen Designer
Sylvia Harris was born in 1953 in Richmond, Virginia. She was part of the cohort of students who experienced desegregation, so she did have a particular perspective because she grew up as an African-American in a racist American. In 1975, she received a bachelor’s degree in communications art and design from the University of the…
Distinct Grouping, Interconnectivity, and Multi-dimensional Interfaces
In Christopher Alexander’s patterns, the subjects of these patterns are oftentimes people, in groups, with categorizations, in communities, all connected and inter-networked. In the demo reel on Information landscapes, the subjects are mostly content and textually conveyed ideas, in groups, with categorizations, in larger systems, all connected and inter-networked. Aside from this clear commonality in…
Elizabeth Churchill
In an interactive career, she made a huge contribution. Churchill is known for her work on Embodied Conversational Agents and co-edited a book of the same name, an area of HCI which uses computer-generated embodied agents together with a model of gesture and facial expression to enable face-to-face speech communication with people. After I watched…
Joy Mountford
Brian Zhao Erin Malone IXD History October 26, 2020 Joy Mountford Joy Mountford is one of the top designers who works in the human-computer interaction field. She is not just known as the leader of the user experience team of Ford Motor Co., she also makes many significant contributions in other territories. Joy Mountford did…
Engagement Preferences, First Impressions, and Isolation; Transcending Physical & Virtual Spaces
Christopher Alexander’s patterns explore various approaches to architecture and urban design, specifically focusing on how those both impact the experience of community within different groupings. Number 36 of Alexander’s Pattern Language explains that people have different preferences when it comes to how isolated or public their place of residence is. Some individuals want to be…
Biography of Doreen Lorenzo
Doreen Lorenzo started her career off as a filmmaker. She would produce a spectrum of films, in the early ’90s: from documentaries to commercials. Lorenzo foresaw that the internet was going to be the next media and communications channel so she jumped at the opportunity to work at a computer company, where she launched the…
Judith Donath and Deceptive Technologies
Judith Donath is a designer, computer science researcher, artist, and writer whose works ask fundamental questions about our interaction with new technologies and addresses the need for critical thinking and discernment. In 2014, she published The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online. Donath has been always passionate about how communication technologies change society. Judith Donath…
Things you do over and over
Christopher Alexanders ideas on Work Community resonate with how the app Slack works. Alexander writes, “Workplaces must not be too scattered, nor too agglomerated, but clustered in groups of about 15.” With slack companies are able to create open networks of communication between all employees while still offering specific communication spaces when they are needed….
From The Design pattern To The Demo From the Visible Language Workshop
Christopher Alexander creates the design pattern based on his observation of architecture, urban design, and community livability. I think there is some similarity between the design pattern and interaction design. Here I am using the demo from the Visible Language Workshop as an example. In #41 Work Community, Christopher suggests that workplaces must not be…
Similar Design Patterns in Slack
Christopher Alexander creates the design pattern based on his observation of architecture, urban design, and community livability. I think there is some similarity between the design pattern and interaction design.Here I am using the Slack as an example. In #41 Work Community, Alexander suggests that workplaces must not be too scattered, nor too agglomerated, but…