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…
April Greiman
April Greiman is a designer in America. She was born on March 22,1948, and grew up in New York City. Her father was an early computer programmer, systems analyst, and founder and president of The Ventura Institute of Technology. This laid the foundation for her to be widely regarded as one of the earliest designers…
Social media community
Social connections are building blocks of our society. Just like how telephone or television was celebrated as the most innovative communication, I believe social media did not reduce social connectivity. If anything, social media likely increased connectivity or reduced the cost of communicating with others. However, it was criticized for its large connectivity as superficial…
Big Bad Servers – BBSes to mobile phones
BBSes remind me of that scene in the 1996 film Scream, where Drew Berrymore is being chased throughout her house and manages to lock herself in her room. She then goes to her computer and runs some system where she “called” 911 and typed out what was happening and she got a very slow response….
Ovetta Sampson
Ovetta Sampson is a UX designer and design researcher driven by data science and ethical design. She sees herself as a problem solver by using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods to inspire innovations in diverse industries, including transportation, IoT, and service. As a Principal Creative Director at Microsoft, Sampson works with multidisciplinary teams…
Dantley Davis
Dantley Davis is currently a chief design officer at Twitter. He had a lot of experience working on UX of consumer products in social media like Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo; streaming services like Netflix, payment like PayPal, and video games Trion Worlds. Dantley Davis was a graduate of the University of San Francisco with Information system…
Shigeru Miyamoto And His “Donkey Kong”
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japenese game designer and producer at Nintendo. He created the Donkey Kong, Mario, Pikmin and The Legend of Zelda video game series for Nintendo. Miyamoto grew up in a very low-tech world, where fun had to come from his imagination. He was very adventurous as a child, exploring the hillsides, creek…
The Evolution of Social Apps and Bulletin Board Systems
I believe the general concept of social apps have stayed similar; to bring people together and communicate about interests, topics, and other issues. But, with the advance of technology since the days of The Well and eWorld, one huge element that I thought is crucial for the modern experience of digital, social communities are real-time…
Virtual Globe
The Well: No anonymity: username in the social media these days(anonymous) but Facebook requires real life info(Name instead of Username). Hypertext: represent information, goal to permit fast and easy access to vast quantities of information. Menu category and tags allow community to define the content. Smartphones: made people to record moments and share it via…
Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid was born in a wealthy family in Iraq in 1950. Her father Mohammed Hadid (Mohammed Hadid, 1907-1999) was an Iraqi economist and owned his own oil refinery in Iraq. Although her family was distinguished, it did not stop her from progressing and becoming a leader in the construction industry. A woman who is…
Patterns Patterns Patterns
Degrees of Publicness directly links to privacy on Facebook. Its the people with completely public profiles, for the world to see. These are the extroverts. Then the middle group, those who have maybe 5-10 photos available to view without a friend request. You can see their name, where they are mutual friends, and usually their…
David Nuff – Canadian Designer
David Nuff, who simply goes by Nuff, is a Toronto based designer and artist with experience in design branding, illustrations, and interactive art, among other hobbies. Though he has a Bachelor’s in Modern Languages and Fine Arts from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, he has been designing for over ten years. His clients…
Oregan Trail Journey
The objective is to journey across the West in a wagon with the player party in hopes of making it to Oregan. The player can begin the game as one of three jobs, which sets the difficulty level. The more money user has at the beginning, the easier the journey. While playing the game, the…
Graphical user interfaces
Looking back now, it’s just a built-in bundle software with simple features, but this program was a simple tool to utilize best Xerox Star and Macintosh, which had nothing in its early days. Within the Macintosh system had calculators, calendars, note pads, simple word processing, and simple picture plates. Functionally, it was a basic word…
Design patterns
Christopher Alexander, who produced and validated by using a “pattern language” to empower anyone to design and build at any scale in collaboration with Sarah Ishikawa and Murray Silverstein. As for the degrees of publicness compared to Facebook, there are some kind of thoughts must be recorded. Initially, Facebook came under fire for one of…
Biography 3
Life and Works of Beverly Loraine Greene Beverly Loraine Greene, an American architect, was born on October 4, 1915. According to the Illinois Architecture College of Fine & Applied Arts, “Beverly Greene is the first African-American woman to receive a bachelor’s degree in architectural engineering from the University of Illinois in 1936” (“The Illinois School…”)….
Oregon Trail
I think the reason why Oregon Trail was famous is that it was easy to play, it is just like a simple Q&A to make the story continue and make characters survive. Every element and button inside this game is really clear and easy to understand, so people can make their own decision to continue…