As an interaction designer, recognition of professional field is of course important. However, I think having broad thinking ability is a thing that can improve professional ability. In the process of our design, we will constantly involve new knowledge from peers. It’s like asking, “What’s this?” in the process of communication. We Googled something we…
Our Design Legacies
The techniques used by the Eames, Gerstner, and Sutnar seem to be in different fields, but they have a lot in common. For example, the Eames couple will do a lot of brainstorming before the actual designing, they will draw connections between each element they have listed out. I find it just like the “task…
Design is people-oriented
In the Mid-Century, four designers had a profound impact on the design industry.Henry Dreyfuss was the first designer to systematically apply ergonomics to the design process. The purpose of ergonomics is to study the coordinated relationship between humans and human-made products. Charles Eams is known as one of the most influential designers in the Mid-Century…
Designing for People, by People
Henry Dreyfuss, a notable industrial designer who quoted “when the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed” created works like The Measure of Man which helped construct principles that revolved around ergonomics (human-factors engineering). He also incorporated the importance of approaching every problem…
The more the merrier!
A multidisciplinary design approach seeks to integrate the different skillsets into the design process. While it’s important to specialize in one area, a designer who has more to offer brings extra benefits. In the process of working with many different areas, the mid-century designers discovered new approaches to the same old problem. And by shifting…
The mid-century designers
Ray Eames was an artist, designer, and filmmaker who had great contributions to the design field. She and her husband, Charles, together working on furniture design, graphic design, architectural design, textile design, and filmmaking that tried to express the idea of playful design. Karl Gerstner was a Swiss designer, typographer, author, and artist. His design…
Pioneering Interaction Design
Both Charles and Ray Eames were contributors revolutionizing and simplifying interior design, with Charles’ architecture, Ray’s fine arts background—together, creating chic chairs. These successful design principles are used in interaction design. Layouts do not need ornamental designs if they get in the way of the end goal. Karl Gerstner and Ladislav Sutnar are pioneers in…
The mid-century foundation
The mid-century is the age of interdisciplinary. Instead of focusing on one single aspect, designers from the mid-century experienced in different areas, and their works built the foundations for interaction design. And in this post, I want to write about the influences from multi-disciplined designers Charles and Ray Eams, Ladislav Sutnar, Karl Gerstner, and Henry…
Valuable assets for a better designer
Dreyfuss appealed the Human-centred design, focusing on how people enhance their life’s security using the design and minimize the impact on people’s fluidity behavior. His principle affected the products to be human-friendly in terms of safety. The round edge of tables or the rubber cover for corners is to avoid the injury from sharp edges….
Never stop thinking
The Eames Creative Process inspires me. They keep testing, then draw the ideas in their minds through sketches, change the materials, adjust the size, shape, and test again. This design method continues to any design field today. At the end of the video, said to go outside and create something. It means that we have…
The Invision and Invention of Blogging
In the article ‘As We May Think’ by Vannevar Bush, 1945, he talks about his career and innovations. One such innovation he imagined was the Memex, which was a desk with a built-in “computer,” where people could create, share, and collaborate on articles with one another. As Dennis G. Jerz publicized back in 2003, this…
Know human before the design
I think any design is designed for humans. When people think of products, we always ask whether they are easy to use or not. The word easy is a subjective human feeling, I think it depends on ergonomics. The design should consider the comfort and limitations of the human body. Henry Dreyfuss considered a lot…
From Mid-Century design to 21th century design
I think midcentury designers’ views have many commons; for example, they are human-oriented, which achieved basic principles of interaction design;Dreyfuss’s s quoted say, “when the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed.” which means we need to design for humans.This is an important…
Midcentury designers built the foundation of Interaction Design.
Karl Gerstner was a leading representative of Swiss typography and one of the essential typography innovators, advertising graphics and corporate design. Ray Eames was an American artist, designer, and filmmaker. She was responsible for groundbreaking contributions in the photographic arts. Ladislav Sutnar was a graphic designer from Plzeň who was a pioneer of information design and information architecture.They are masters of visual design and information architecture,…
The Giants
Designers from the mid-century made fascinating achievements in different areas and their works indubitably made valuable contributions to the later appeared design majors such as our newly introduced interaction design. Charles Eames and his wife, Ray Eames, always focus on a big idea and hold a positive attitude while they are conducting experiments for their…
Legacy
Midcentury designers affected the basics of Interaction Design—Eames, who designed an iconic Plywood chair, respecting hands, and materials. They also developed through making prototypes and iterations. Gerstner claimed that historical examples to address the design. He empathized that design should work with any device and anywhere. Sutnar, a Czech designer who affected America, suggested that…
Expansive Tool Belt
To be multidisciplinary and expansive within the design landscape is powerful as it allows you to bring in all different perspectives and ideas to a project or problem.This is an important skill as interaction designers must be able to communicate with their team and understand all the sides that are involved in the entire process…
Good Design is Good Feeling.
Many Mid-Century designers laid the foundation for visual design as we know it today, some even considered how their designs would be digested and interacted-with by the people who used them. Ray and Charles Eames were among those, designing with both functionality and thoughtfulness collaboratively. They always kept the “big idea” of their work central,…
Memex
The core of interaction design is the user, which is human-centered design. Interaction design connects people and products. The starting point of interaction design is to meet the needs of users. After user research and analysis of users’ needs, practical and targeted functions are proposed. Sutnar organizes other information through a coordinated visual system such…
core to the practice of Interaction Design
One of the primary rules of interaction design starts with people and comes towards a specific solution from the crowd’s perspective. The core practice and design principles can provide interactive design a better guideline. Searching for unmet human wants and needs opens up the outcomes of the design process to include experiences, systems, and services…