Lucy Suchman is a professor of anthropology at Lancaster University, who worked as the principal scientist and manager at the Palo Alto Research Center. Her university education was completed at UC Berkeley, receiving her Ph.D in Social/Cultural Anthropology in 1984. Cambridge University Press published her dissertation, Plans and Situated Actions: The Problem of Human-Machine Communication…
Ellen Lupton
Bored in 1963, Ellen Lupton presents herself as a curator of Contemporary Art. In 1981, Lupton became a fine art student at Cooper Union in 1981 and discovered the expressive potential of typography. “Design really wasn’t in the mainstream back then. It was esoteric. It was the thing you did if you were very ‘neat,’ which…
Shigeru Ban
Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect. He is known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. He was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1957. Ban’s early life was surrounded by carpentry. His mother, a fashion designer, regularly enlarged the house to accommodate her seamstresses;…
Hideo Kojima – video gaming’s first auteur
90% of what is considered impossible is, in fact, possible. The other 10% will become possible with the passage of time & technology. —Hideo Hojima Hideo Kojima was born on August 24, 1963. He spent his childhood in Setagaya Ward, Tokyo, and moved to Kansai with his family when he was a child. Because his…
Build a Technical System for Human Interactions
In the early days of developing social experiences of communities was aimed to build a technical system for virtual human interaction. In other words, people want to establish relationships and social environments virtually through technology. As we can see today, we spend a huge amount of time on maintaining and expanding our social networks through…
Gatekeeping not limited anymore
Comparing early Bulletin Board Systems to the communications tools we use today, we still use text as forms of communication, as in emails, text messages, Slack, social media, etc. Although, with advancements in hypertext—HTML/CSS and Javascript—we are able to form it more visually–hierarchical, use of images and videos. Additionally, with smartphones, we are now able…
Current Communication Styles
The Whole Earth Lectronic Link was a community that ran on forums and group communication practices. The founding concepts of communication has stayed the same. Text, Organization, and Imagery is key when discussing a topic. Present day examples of communication like zoom and discord both utilize text and imagery, but incorporate new ways of interacting…
The early generation of social applications
In today’s age when the Internet is developed, it is difficult to imagine what the first generation of electronic technology socialization was like. According to the article, I realized that in 1985, some people’s demand for remote social networks started to rise. This played a decisive role in women’s status at that time. There are…
Humans are not Nodes and Links
In consideration of early forms of social networking, a common theme that emerges is that of self-regulatory systems. Particularly in the case of WELL, several of the seven design goals established by the team include fostering an environment that is “an open-ended universe”, “self-governing”, and “a self-designing experiment”. By doing so, technology becomes both a…
Virtual Community
With the development of technology, 4g even 5g appeared and make the data upload speed much faster than before, which has pushed the development of Live broadcast and short video platforms. In this way, the ability to live-stream made people can get feedback at the same time and in a more intuitive way. So all…
The Early Internet
The WELL, the name itself, even sounds very utopian to me. Indeed, it was the new beginning of the internet and the birth of the virtual community. What I find fascinating is that the similarities between the Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design and today’s social media. All of these eight rules are so profound…
Vivianne Castillo
Before Vivianne Castillo was one of the leading User Experience Research Speakers, she was a Counseling and Human Services professional for six years. Castillo concentrated her psychological expertise in battling shame, empathy, vulnerability, and compassion. Although she loved her job and loved helping people, she wanted a change in the profession and that is when…
Denise Scott Brown
Denise Scott Brown was born in Zambia and was raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is still alive and was born in 1937. She is an architect, urban planner, and designer of postmodernism. Furthermore, Denise Scott Brown was a partner in the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. She graduated from the University of…
Lori Ann Cole – the creator of the Quest for Glory (QFG) series.
Lori Ann Cole is the game designer for Quest for the Glory series, where she worked along side her husband. She laid out the blueprint and her husband did the coding side. She has a background in fictional writing, elementary education, and film animation. Cole initially worked as a freelancer for Sierra On-Line and eventually…
Consequences from the Evolution of Social Media
Community has changed so much with the evolution of technology and the increasing accessibility of the internet. Back before the world wide web, was the beginnings of online social networking between the few who knew how to access and participate in the first online community platforms such as the Well. Within these communities, those with…
Our Virtual Community
The early world wide web made people realize the importance of communication and freely sharing information and people continued to dig into the value of that. The internet’s attribute of being able to let users communicate freely still remains the same until today. But the internet in recent years are more advanced and sophisticated, people…
Digital community
Early social applications, such as eWorld, are more like a large information platform. People rarely connect with each other, they just share the same information from the Internet. After continuous development, it became a social platform, and now people chat and socialize on the Internet. More like an online community, and share real-time photos, share…
