Day: November 24, 2020

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…

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…

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,…

Clement Mok

Clement Mok is a designer, instigator, and consultant. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design Graphic Design program. He was a creative director at Apple during the early ’80s, and he starts to transfer from a graphic designer to more like an information architect also interaction designer.  During almost five and a half…

Women in Programming: Corrinne Yu

Until beginning her career as a technical programmer, Corrinne Yu attended California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, to study electrical engineering. Corrinne Yu is an awesome individual. People have most known her as the principal programmer for the Halo team at Microsoft. Unlike what people expected from a petite Asian woman, she dresses like a rock…

Brenda Romero – Game Designer

Brenda Romero designs games that turn some of history’s most tragic lessons into interactive, emotional experiences. TED Speaker Brenda Romero is an award-winning game designer, Fulbright scholar, entrepreneur, artist, writer and creative director who entered the video game industry in 1981. Brenda has worked with a variety of digital game companies as a game designer, creative…

Norma Merrick Sklarek

As the first African-American woman to hold the architect license in New York and the first woman to earn a license in California, Norma Merrick Sklarek was also the first African-American woman who was selected as a member of the American Institute of Architects. Norma Merrick Sklarek was born on April 15, 1926, in Harlem,…

Quick and Dirty

As an Interaction Design student, I’ve learned to appreciate the exhilerating practice of rapid iteration. There is something so fun about producing work as quickly as possible and receiving feedback at rapidfire pace, repeating the process to determine the trajectory of a project. Within my work, I have participated in the process of Information Architecture…

IA is Crucial to IXD

The biggest difference between information architecture and interaction design is that information architecture focuses on making complex clear by arranging information while interaction design focuses on creating smoother and better user experience.  The information architecture is very supportive and even crucial to interaction design. When we visit a random shopping website, we can always see…

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