User involvement affects building quality engaging its users at the planning level. The involvement is based on citizen participation movement refer to Armstein’s model, claiming that citizens with more power, the quantity and the quality of decisions will increase. With the involvement of the owner of those affected by the action of building, active involvement…
The errors
In the educational video “History of Books,” the first error I found is the invention time of Codex. In the video, the illustration expresses that it was invented in the 4th century by Greeks. However, the correct answer is that the Romans started to use it during the 1st century, according to Wikipedia. Also, the…
The significance of ancient inventions to modern designers
As an interaction design student, we iterate and develop our design works over and over again in order to achieve higher usability, product quality, and more. Every detail of the work matters to us to present a high-quality design. For example, visual aesthetics, hierarchy, proximity, even the space between headlines and content. The second way…
The history of UI design’s relationship with the earlier game interface
In the academic research paper that was published in the beginning of 21 century “Learning from Games: HCI Design Innovations in Entertainment Software,” the authors analyzed the possibility of elements from the earlier game interface that may have influenced the creativity and innovation of the earlier future general interface design. In the article, they discussed…
it’s important to have a basic background understanding of the importance of moveable type and the Renaissance as a time of the invention
In ancient times, people used paper as a carrier for reading. In modern times, people use mobile phone screens, Kindle screens, computer screens, etc. as the carrier of browsing. Writing is a symbol of human civilization, the paper is the most effective carrier of writing, and printing reflects what efficiency is. So I think it’s…
How Did The Development of Design Happen On Automobiles?
The topic that I will be talking about is how did the development of the design of automobiles happen. I read a journal essay titled “Development of Art In The Automobiles: Harmony in Color, Design And Fittings In The Cars of Today” which was written by Herbert M. Dawley in 1911 and this essay really…
Trace Back & Think
People always say that “you must learn to walk before you run.” If we are not learning the basics, how are we supposed to strengthen our designs? As a student of interaction major, it is very important for me to learn the basic background of Renaissance and moveable type to become a professional. As we…
Importance of Understanding Moveable Type and Renaissance in Interaction Design
The understanding of the moveable type and the Renaissance is important in Interaction Design. The moveable type is important because it was able to reproduce written communications for the distribution of the masses; it was one of the first moments where they put importance to hierarchy and typography layout; made typeface more humanistic with the…
Representation in the History of Graphic Design
In the journal, ‘Graphic Design History: Past, Present, and Future’ by Teal Triggs, Triggs talks about how the history of graphic design did not originate from what we might consider aspects of design. Careers we might associate as contributors graphic design are “‘printing, typography, photography, and advertising.’” Credit to the origins could include “‘anthropology, aesthetics,…
Interaction Design in the Past, Present, & Future
With the invention of movable type we were able to advanced towards a culture where reading could be something more people could partake in which lead to societies eventually educating people other than just nobles and clergy. With more educated people learning to read and write more ideas were forming from more people and history…
The Importance of Skeuomorphism
Skeuomorphism as a physical object, “is an ornamental version of something that was, in an earlier version of the product, a functional necessity.” Fake candles in a chandelier or faux wood grain on linoleum are examples of this idea in a physical sense. I was really interested in finding out more about this concept because…
Comparison of Egyptian hieroglyphics and mobile app icon design
Hieroglyphics evolved from pictorial writing, and it is one of the oldest fonts in the world. Unlike phonograms, hieroglyphs are ideograms. Egyptian hieroglyphs were independently produced from the most detailed pictures and patterns of primitive society. Since the use of logos in hieroglyphs in ancient Egyptian civilization, icons have become a norm (Davies,1958). In modern…
Hieroglyphics Of the 21st Century
One of the reasons we feel familiar with icons begins with a simple reason that we can easily understand them, either from a single character using ancient hieroglyphics from ancient Egypt or learning first words from children’s picture books. A hieroglyphic that could use a word instead had to replace its meaning, and it would…
The Kebab, The Hamburger, and Determinatives
Upon exploration of various mobile applications, ranging from social media platforms to AI companions, there were two icons that remained consistent: the Hamburger and the Kebab. According to material.io, the Hamburger icon serves as the Navigation icon, commonly allocated to the far left, whereas Kebab is referred to as the Overflow menu, typically to the…
From Old World Icons to the Apple Music App
I looked at the apple music app for this exploration. I thought it was interesting how they seem to go back to basic human emotions for some of their icon, while others adhere to a much more recent set of iconography. Their use of the sound bars for radio and the triangle for play are…
Our connection to the old knowledge!
After watching the “Early-Writing Iconographic” video, the icon that I wanted to compare jumped into my mind. it is the Chinese version of Facebook called “Weibo”. The logo is shaped like a camera-control monitor with an eye in the middle and on its head it got a little sign which represented for the signal.Because of…
2 little parts
In the video”The History of Books” when it introduced the Egyptian paper making, I noticed that the use of papyrus was not from 4000 BC, it is 1000 years early. From the oxford reference: “As a writing material, papyrus was in use in Egypt from at least 3000 BCE”Also when talking about the inventor of…
Elevate – brain training app iconography
Elevate is a mobile application for brain training. Despite, its elegant design, the app delivers a great user experience. One great aspect of design is iconography. First, it is important to look at the objective of the application, which is brain training. Then the target audience of the application, which is normal people, who wants…
The connection between the Hamburger bar icon and the Egyptian hieroglyphics.
I always think about how our ancestors count. Early humans used bones as counting tools. These bones probably are the earliest evidence to show how human beings use lines to count. Been known as one of the earliest human beings invented symbol, The Egyptians used the combination of the fence and a group of three vertical…
Similarities and differences between the icons used by One Medical and ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
Thanks to the complete language and writing systems of various countries, the icons used in modern people’s lives have got rid of the need to “be individually used as readable characters”. But we may notice that these icons and signs are all small pictures like symbols that symbolize things which allow us to associate some…
