I was thinking about how hard it must be for disabled users who want to try online dating. Most of the apps are purely visual and rely on swiping left and right to create connections. Some newer apps encourage users to FaceTime, but are still built around static profiles and messaging. One idea I had…
Apple Watch Redesign for the blind
Recently, one of my friends gave me a new Apple watch as a gift. After using it, I feel that the functionality of the device can almost replace a smartphone. However, it is hard for blind people to have the same experience when using the interfaces on the watch because they cannot receive any visual…
Music Player for the Blind
In my Creative Founder Project, our team is working on an online learning community for the blind. As we are conducting our MVP, I started to think, is the current design of the audio player friendly enough for the blind people to use? If you ask blind people this question, They won’t tell you “yes”….
Typographer: Zuzana Licko
Zuzana Licko is a type designer and one of the first designers to use the Mackintosh computer. Zuzana Licko was born in 1961 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, and emigrated with her parents to the U.S. in 1968. She graduated with a degree in Graphic Communications from the University of California at Berkeley in 1984. Licko’s father…
The indispensability of IA
Information architecture has an indispensable position in interaction design. The first thing we learned in the system course last semester was Information architecture. Information architecture refers to a series of organic processing ideas such as overall planning, design, and arrangement of information in a specific content. Information architecture can guide users through a lot of…
Zaha Hadid Biography
Zaha Hadid was born on October 31, 1950, in Baghdad, Iraq, and died March 31, 2016, in Miami, Florida, U.S. She is the daughter of Mohammed Hadid and the sister of Fulath and Haithem Hadid. Zaha studied at the American University of Beirut. After graduating in mathematics in Beirut in the 1970s, she studied architecture in…
Information Architecture
In my opinion, IA design follows very similar patterns to flowcharting: Add shapes and connect them with lines in an organized fashion to a single document. The challenge when building IA is in understanding how the app or website actually works from the user’s perspective, and how to organize that information into a readable, legible format. I…
Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray was born in Wexford in 1878. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London and the Académie Julian in Paris where she lived for most of her life. Gray collaborated with Seizo Sugawara, a Japanese expert in decorative lacquer work for several years. In 1910 Gray opened a workshop with Sugawara…
The importance of IA
Information architecture is the practice of determining the arrangement of portions of something to be understandable. There are five types of organizing information in IA, which are Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, and Hierarchy. Information architectures are on the websites, apps, and software, even the physical places we spend time in. IA helps people to find…
IA and Interaction Design
Information Architecture is very different from the Architecture we usually know. However, it has a strong connection with interaction design. As a student who majors in interaction design, I didn’t know how important IA for interaction designers in the past. However, after I dive into more project I just realize Information Architecture is like the…
Can’t Live without IA
Working as an interaction designer, I see IA as one of the most important parts of the design process. When I first learned IA in the foundation class, I didn’t realize that IA could be done much more than I expected until I got stuck with the system thinking for the experience design. Before, I…
Why IA and Interaction Design are Inseperable
One of the main goals of interaction design is helping users get somewhere to achieve their goals easily and efficiently. As interaction designers, we aim to create a user-friendly experience. For the information architecture (IA), it focuses on structuring and organizing the information. A good interaction design always based on a direct and structured information…
Information Design
As a student studying Interaction Design, I haven’t yet had the opportunity to create my own information architecture, but every person on the web has been exposed to some form of it. Information architects determine the needs and requirements of users and creators, as well as how to structure and map content out. A website…
Shigeru Miyamoto
People have paid me a lot of lip service, calling me a genius story teller or a talented animator, and have gone so far as to suggest that I try my hand at movies, since my style of game design is, in their words, quite similar to making movies. But I feel that I am…
Information Architecture for IXD project
One of my first encounters with Information Architecture, to be more exact is the first encounter I actually recognized that is my first official UX project from Kate Rutter’s UX Foundation class. The brief for this project is to create a tool on Amazon that enables faculties to efficiently collate items into kits and students…
Hedy Lamarr: More Than Meets the Eye
Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler, better known as Hedy Lamarr (1924-2000), was an Austrian-American actress, film producer, and inventor. She was not only known as “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World”, but invented frequency hopping spread spectrum technology that is used today in cell phones, Wi-Fi, CMDA, GPS, and Bluetooth, among others (Massie). Although she…
My understanding of IA in IxD
I think information architecture is a kind of mindset or a pattern. It also supports interaction design and exists in interaction design. IA is one of the very important pillars of interaction design. There is no doubt that information architecture and interaction design are strongly related. But the two are also very different. Information structure…
Mabel Addis
Brian Zhao Erin Malone IXD History November 24, 2020 Mabel Addis Mabel Addis was a teacher, writer, and video game designer. She was born in Mount Vernon on May 21, 1912. Mabel graduated from Brewster High School in 1929 and she earned a bachelor’s degree in ancient history from Barnard College in 1933. After that,…
IA & IxD
Richard Saul Wurman used five words to explain the tools for information architecture in the video “The Five Types of Organizing Information” which are Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, and Hierarchy. These five words he mentioned in the short video are really easy for me to understand. Information architecture focused on solving the basic problems of…
Darcy DiNucci
Darcy DiNucci is a web designer, author and expert in user experience. As a head of user experience at Ammunition, DiNucci focuses on designing end-to-end experiences that crystalize a business’s value for the people who engage with it. DiNucci’s work has been instrumental in the success of projects for Adobe, Intel, the University of California,…