Shinji Mikami is a Japanese game designer, producer and director. He was born in Iwakuni, Japan on August 11th, 1965 and graduated from Doshisha University in Kyoto, majoring in merchandise. Soon after, he landed a job with Capcom as a game planner in 1990. At the early stages of his career, he worked on Disney…
Cipe Penelis
Cipe Pineles was an iconic female visual designer and Art director. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1908 she would go on to change the way we communicate through publications and magazines in the US forever.(About) She did this also while advocating for women who work during a time of changing gender roles. While holding many…
Ovetta Sampson – Biography
Ovetta Sampson is an African American female product manager/design researcher/UX designer, and has a wide array of experience in the design world as well as journalism and marketing. This large range of skills has contributed to her ultimate goal to “amplify the beauty of humanity with design while avoiding practices that exploit its fragility.” From…
Dropbox
Dropbox was founded by two MIT students – Drew Houston and Arash Ferdowsi, in 2007. They have launched their first product at March,2008. Dropbox can be installed into the computer and downloaded to our remote device like tablet or mobile phone. With its powerful synchronization function, users can use the software at anywhere they want….
The history of Autodesk Maya
Maya is a 3D computer graphics application software that runs on computers only. It is now available in Windows, macOS, and Linux. It is used to create assets for interactive 3D applications, such as video games, animated films, TV series, and visual effects. That the beginning of 3D computer animation in the public eye was with wireframe animations in films like…
Adobe Photoshop Now and Then
As one of the most popular software for designers, Photoshop has released its 21st version in 2020. Apparently, it has always been a key research and development project of Adobe company. Its emergence and early history are also very interesting. Photoshop went through two “evolutions” before it belonged to Adobe. In 1987, PhD student Tom…
Club Penguin
Club Penguin is an online multiplayer game for kids and ran from 2005 to 2017. It was shut down by Disney after a dramatic decrease in users, but copycat sites and versions have been put up since. Essentially in the game, the user gets to explore a fun, snowy world as a penguin and play…
Three Decades Of Google’s Development(1998, 2008, 2018)
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two computer science graduate students, met at Stanford in 1995 and created what would become one of the most useful inventions of all-time — a highly usable and accurate internet search engine. In 1998, Google’s branding began to take form, progressing from the wacky older logo above (and others) into…
Figma:A Web-based Design Tool
Figma was founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace. Some of the original designers who worked on Figma were Lucyné Babayan, Marcin Wichary, Bradee Evans, Tori Hinn, Nikolas Klein, Peter Herbert Barnaba, Rasmus Andersson, and Noah Levin. In 2015, Figma, the first design tool that combined the accessibility of the web with the…
3D Modeling- SketchUp History
SketchUp is a Computer Graphics software program widely used within the realms of architectural designing, CAD, and 3D modeling. Mechanical engineers, interior designers, and film and video game creators actively use this software to deliver prolific results. The software was originally developed by startup company @Last Software, co-founded by Brad Schell and Joe Esch in 1999. SketchUp…
History of Adobe Fireworks
On March 10th, 1998, Macromedia Digital Arts Group released Fireworks as a free public beta; it was officially released that same year, on the 2nd of June. Adobe Systems later acquired Fireworks on December 3rd, 2005, and released to the public in 2007 in the Adobe Creative Suite CS3 release. (Could not find any of…
Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro is software that a lot of video editors who are Mac users used today. A lot of people chose to use it because it creates a much simple, clean, smooth, and faster experience compare to Adobe Premiere Pro. Back in 1998, Macromedia had hired Randy Ubillos’ group to create digital video editing…
The Legacy of MS Paint
Microsoft Paint is an application that has been a part of Window since 1985, most often associated with its poorly and badly illustrated digital art. For many, including myself, it was the first form of painting or editing images on the computer, and the only tool available at the time. Its simple interface and limited…
The Past and Present of Snapchat
Snapchat, formed in 2011, is a social media platform used to share photos and messages among friends. Snapchat was formed with communication between friends and new ways of expression in mind. The gimmick of disappearing pictures was a new step no one had done up until now. With this in mind, Evan Spiegel, Reggie Brown,…
The Development of Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program. It was released on April 20, 1987. The first version of PowerPoint only works for Macintosh Operating system based computers, which was created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin from the company called Forethought.After Forethought hired Robert Gaskins as the vice president of product development in 1984, Gaskins chose…
Google Chrome 2008 VS Google Chrome 2020
Even though Google Chrome only has 12 years of history, it has become one of the most well-known web browser software in the world. Google Chrome first debuted in 2008 and it was designed for Microsoft Windows. Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the founders of the Google company, in other words, they are the…
Firefox – The Early Day and The Present
Firefox started out in 1998 under the Mozilla project – an open source created by a team from Netscape. It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the Internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market. It is an open source that has been evolved from the…
A School Project to a Five Billion Dollars App
Twitter is one of the most popular app people are using today, yet, it is one of the earliest social networking services in the twenty-first century, along with Facebook and Youtube. Today, with over 145 million daily users, there are 6,000 tweets sent each second on average. That’s 500 million tweets sent each day. Therefore,…
The Initial Launch and Development of Gmail
Gmail is a free e-mail service released by Google on April 1st, 2004. When Gmail first came out, new users needed existing users to send email invitations. As of February 7,2007, Google announced that Gmail registration is fully open. The Beta logo was officially cancelled on July 7,2009, and after more than five years of…
