Sylvia Harris was born in 1953 in Richmond, Virginia. She was part of the cohort of students who experienced desegregation, so she did have a particular perspective because she grew up as an African-American in a racist American. In 1975, she received a bachelor’s degree in communications art and design from the University of the…
Distinct Grouping, Interconnectivity, and Multi-dimensional Interfaces
In Christopher Alexander’s patterns, the subjects of these patterns are oftentimes people, in groups, with categorizations, in communities, all connected and inter-networked. In the demo reel on Information landscapes, the subjects are mostly content and textually conveyed ideas, in groups, with categorizations, in larger systems, all connected and inter-networked. Aside from this clear commonality in…
Elizabeth Churchill
In an interactive career, she made a huge contribution. Churchill is known for her work on Embodied Conversational Agents and co-edited a book of the same name, an area of HCI which uses computer-generated embodied agents together with a model of gesture and facial expression to enable face-to-face speech communication with people. After I watched…
Joy Mountford
Brian Zhao Erin Malone IXD History October 26, 2020 Joy Mountford Joy Mountford is one of the top designers who works in the human-computer interaction field. She is not just known as the leader of the user experience team of Ford Motor Co., she also makes many significant contributions in other territories. Joy Mountford did…
Engagement Preferences, First Impressions, and Isolation; Transcending Physical & Virtual Spaces
Christopher Alexander’s patterns explore various approaches to architecture and urban design, specifically focusing on how those both impact the experience of community within different groupings. Number 36 of Alexander’s Pattern Language explains that people have different preferences when it comes to how isolated or public their place of residence is. Some individuals want to be…
Biography of Doreen Lorenzo
Doreen Lorenzo started her career off as a filmmaker. She would produce a spectrum of films, in the early ’90s: from documentaries to commercials. Lorenzo foresaw that the internet was going to be the next media and communications channel so she jumped at the opportunity to work at a computer company, where she launched the…
Judith Donath and Deceptive Technologies
Judith Donath is a designer, computer science researcher, artist, and writer whose works ask fundamental questions about our interaction with new technologies and addresses the need for critical thinking and discernment. In 2014, she published The Social Machine: Designs for Living Online. Donath has been always passionate about how communication technologies change society. Judith Donath…
Things you do over and over
Christopher Alexanders ideas on Work Community resonate with how the app Slack works. Alexander writes, “Workplaces must not be too scattered, nor too agglomerated, but clustered in groups of about 15.” With slack companies are able to create open networks of communication between all employees while still offering specific communication spaces when they are needed….
From The Design pattern To The Demo From the Visible Language Workshop
Christopher Alexander creates the design pattern based on his observation of architecture, urban design, and community livability. I think there is some similarity between the design pattern and interaction design. Here I am using the demo from the Visible Language Workshop as an example. In #41 Work Community, Christopher suggests that workplaces must not be…
Similar Design Patterns in Slack
Christopher Alexander creates the design pattern based on his observation of architecture, urban design, and community livability. I think there is some similarity between the design pattern and interaction design.Here I am using the Slack as an example. In #41 Work Community, Alexander suggests that workplaces must not be too scattered, nor too agglomerated, but…
Irene Au Biography
Irene Au graduated from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor of science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering. She went on to pursue her master’s degree at the University of Illinois, where she majored in Industrial Engineering/Human-Computer Interaction. After completing her master’s studies, she began her career as an interaction designer at Netscape…
People’s needs never change
In Cristopher Alexandra’s “A Pattern Language,” I found many connections between the social media we are using nowadays.I can see many patterns being applied to little features that blend into our everyday life. Especially #36 “degrees of publicness” and #14 “Identifiable Neighborhood”. In pattern #36, “degrees of publicness,” Alexandra talks about People are different: “the…
Digital community
I think the social media application is very similar to the architecture in our real society. Think about mural. When you create a group and invite others to mural, you will create documents in your own space. It seems that in real life, real estate agents sell land to people, and they build houses in…
Design Patterns of Christopher Alexander from Paper to the Digital World
Christopher Alexander describes #36 Degrees of Publicness using our personalities (introvert/extrovert) as a way of choosing where to live in a neighborhood. He states, “To make sure that the different kinds of people can find houses which satisfy their own particular desires, we suggest that each cluster of houses, and each neighborhood should have three…
Oen Michael Hammonds – IBM Design Principal
Oen Michael Hammonds is an experienced designer, advocate, and lifelong educator. For over three years, Hammonds has been working with cross-functional teams at IBM as their Design Principal. As the lead facilitator, Hammonds has designed across the gamut. From services and advertising to graphic and interaction design, Hammonds collaboratively directs IBM global employee experiences’ creative…
Forget the cubicles!
Whenever the word “workplace” pops up, the first image that comes to your mind might be a company with many square identical cubicles. But the modern workplace can be totally different as many organizations turn to mainly run on digital platforms. Stack is an instant messaging platform that combines chat and emails. According to Christopher…
Devices of the Future
This is how I imagine John Scalzi’s futuristic device looks like + his BrainPal
Self Care for UX Researchers – Vivianne Castillo
Vivianne Castillo is a UX Researcher with more than 8 years of psychology and research experience spanning multiple contexts, cultures, and industries. She has experience working as a UX researcher at Weight Watchers, Google, and Salesforce with a background in counseling and human services. She is also an active writer on multiple platforms like Medium….
The similar patterns in digital applications
Comparing to Slack, there are many similar key points in the “work community” pattern written by Christopher Alexander. In the reading, Christopher suggests that the workspace should contain a mix of jobs, such as desk jobs, craft jobs, and selling. In slack, we are able to create subdivisions(channels) that form different groups. In these Sub-groups,…
Xia Peisu
Xia Peisu, b. 1923 in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, came from a literary family. She is a specialist in computer science and technology. Xia Peisu started attending primary school at the age of four and a half and studied at home under a private tutor for six years, from the age of eight. Her excellent academic…