Spotify Launched: April 23, 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden Original founders: Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon Current CEO: Daniel Ek Currently owned by Spotify AB a publicly traded company They have many many many patents available including one for their cross-fade option where users can choose to have songs fade into each other. Spotify has a patent…
How Wikipedia Slightly Change Our Life
The history of Wikipedia begins with Ward Cunningham, who created a new website model in 1994; he named it “Wiki”. Wikis are websites that allow users to create and edit information on the site in real-time. Because we live in a sharable big-data / information expo generation, The Wikis revolutionizes how people collaborate and share…
Solitaire paved the way!
Based on a century years old card game, Microsoft Solitaire was first introduced more than 30 years ago and ended up becoming one of the most played video games in history. This game has been entertaining and introduced computer games to more than 500 million players all around the world. Microsoft’s Paul Jensen, studio manager…
Microsoft Word: Then and Now
Microsoft Word (originally known as Multi-Tool Word) was introduced in the early 1980s by software developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi who came to work for Microsoft from Xerox. Although Microsoft Word was made available for both Macintosh and computers using MS-DOS, It wasn’t until 1989, when Word shifted its focus to Windows, bundled with…
Evolution of YouTube
Youtube is a popular video hosting website that paved the way for ordinary people to post creative content to the internet for others enjoyment. The original site was created in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, all former PayPal employees.1 The three creators of youtube were originally attempting to make an online…
35 years History of Excel
Do you know that Microsoft Excel has been helping businesses for about 35 years? Excel is a SAAS spreadsheet for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. Once you downloaded Microsoft Office, Excel is included. Dan Bricklin, as known as…
Organize information into Information architecture
A tidy and orderly room will make us feel that everything is under control; a room filled with things randomly will make us feel that the room is out of control, which will cause people to feel irritability. For an App, if the main page is filled with various content, users will usually feel irritable….
Irene Au
Irene Au can be considered one of the pioneers in developing User Experience (UX) design into a distinct field of study and professional career choice. While studying for her master’s degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, she actually created her own program within Industrial Engineering called, “Human-Computer Interaction.” She was immediately…
Eileen Gray
Bio 5 Eileen Gray has very few architectural works and she hasn’t the persistent pursuit of quantity. Her attitude towards design is to follow her inner thoughts in each work. The most famous is her first architectural work called E-1027. The house was located on the coastline of southern France. The building E-1027 sounds like…
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer was one of the dominant browsers in the old days, during the 2000s and declined by Chrome. Even I remember that every people used Internet Explorer when I was in primary school. It was a project led by Thomas Reardon and five teammates in Microsoft.1 The customized version of Spyglass’s Mosaic web browser…
Cinema 4D
Cinema 4D is a 3D software suite developed by the German company Maxon. it’s easy to learn and extremely powerful: Cinema 4D is the perfect package for all 3D artists who want to achieve breathtaking results fast and hassle-free. Beginners and seasoned professionals alike can take advantage of Cinema 4D’s wide range of tools and features…
Tracing the evolution of GUI: there and back again
GUI stands for the graphic user interface which build direct connections between the computer hardware and the user. The history of GUI can be retrospect to the early 1980s.The Xerox Star was the first system that installed GUI in its desktop through a visualized way includes – the icon of the folder, the window and…
Microsoft Minesweeper – A legend of generation
“Where there’s Windows, there is Minesweeper.” As it is one of the few pre-installed games that come along with the popularization of PC in early 2000, it may be the first game that the Y generation played during their childhood, including me. As one of the earliest games that Microsoft developed, Minesweeper witness the evolution…
Bio 4 Charlotte Perriand: The Underappreciated Genius
Charlotte Perriand is an artist who wasn’t given her due credit. She was a designer from France who mostly worked on “furniture, scale models, and photographs” (Luckel). She works with wood and metal for the development of these sculptures and pieces, but she has created a sense of genuineness, pragmatism, and aesthetics in her works,…
Evolution of community
The early internet like the wells and BBS laid groundwork for future human interaction. The wells provided a platform for people to communicate on the internet for the first time. Compare to what we have right now, the purpose of the technology is beyond the use of communication. It is more about your digital identity,…
Aika Matemu Biography
Aika Matemu resides in Nairobi, an African city known for being the hub of technological innovation and design. In an interview she conducted with Acumen as a fellow, an organization dedicated to the way the world tackles poverty, she explained her passion for using technology to facilitate social change, movement, and revolution. She is currently…
the Evolution of Social Media
Social apps’ general concept is to bring people together to communicate about interests, topics, and other issues. (Like Tiktok, Ins) As technology has advanced since the days of The Well and eWorld, the world has evolved towards a global network with millions of people communicating through various social platforms and media. The users of these…
