Algorithm will only become better and better at predicting people’s preference. But is it a benefit, or something gradually kills humanity? In Netflix’s documentary “The Social Dilemma”, it talks about how the tech industry is stealing our information and using the AI algorithm to completely take control over the content we are viewing to make…
Future Information Visualization
In the past few years, information visualization has become a critical modern communication medium and research technology. According to studies I learned in Cognitive Science, humans’ cognitive speed and acceptance of images are much stronger than text. Designers visualize information and make the complicated, obscure, and most difficult data easy to understand. Information visualization is…
Irene Au
Irene Au has a math and science background and she built robots when she was in college. When attending the electrical and computer engineering graduate program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Irene found her passion for solving problems within technology. Irene created her own program of study in human-computer interaction (HCI), and at that…
Yoko Taro
“I always believe that humans cannot completely get rid of issues such as violence and discrimination. I believe that humans are born with defects in some aspects… But I also believe that one day in the future, we need to look back at these defects and show them to everyone…”–Yoko Taro Yoko Taro was born…
Norma Merick Sklarek: The Rosa Parks of Architecture
Norma Merick Sklarek, known as “The Rosa Parks of Architecture” was born in Harlem, New York City in 1926. She was the first African American woman to become an architect, and overcame numerous challenges in her career. From her early life, she attended predominantly white schools, where she had demonstrated great strength in math, science,…
Amélie Lamont and Leading Design
After decades of rapid development, the design industry has a set of a relatively mature system. However, this system is largely influenced by European style and aesthetics, which is called Euro-centered. This would definitely cause many problems in the face of globalization in the 21st century. Therefore, in the field of contemporary design, a group…
The future of the work commute system
I get inspiration from my Future of work project. My teammates and I think differently about the commute experience in the future. After the research, we decide to make a connection between a private technology company and a government-based service. We finally came out with the idea which is a working zone through the collaboration…
IXD and Tech Futures
Technology will never stop advancing, and thus the job of the interaction designer will never disappear as well. At its core, I believe we will always have to put the user’s needs at the center of everything we do, and will continue the iterative process no matter how far we go. A blurring of physical…
Virtual Assistant and Future IXD
Today, the way most of us interact with devices through screens. Like our cellphone, tablet, laptop, computer, and TV. They all work through the screen. So I think the question and the problem for future interaction designers are how to design out of the screen? Today, there are a lot of interactive devices that came…
The Future of Data
We see that technology has changed relative to past advancements, and as a result we must reflect on our current state of technology in order to determine a sense of a future trajectory. It is easy to assume that our current level of advancement is somehow superior to those prior, but sophistication as a trait…
Krista Donaldson
Krista Donaldson was born in 1973. She is an engineer and currently is a CEO in D-Rev, which is a nonprofit product design and engineering company. Before D-Rev, Krista was an economic officer at the US Department of State where she worked on economic policy and the reconstruction of Iraq’s electricity sector, and as a…
Age of AI and Data
Interaction design is always based on user experience and it will be always based on user experience. There can be big changes in interaction design but it will always surround users’ feedback. One thing that all interaction designers may need to consider in the future will be data and testing results because interaction designers will…
Sci-Fi can teach us a lot about ethics
When conceptualizing new technologies and their implementations, it is important to consider the ethics and possible outcomes. Sci-fi books and movies are a brilliant avenue through which we can explore the implications of futuristic technology, and shows like Black Mirror and Altered Carbon can leave us with a very chilling perspective. In the dystopian universe…
Annie J. Easley
Annie J. Easley was born on April 23rd 1933 in Birmingham, Alabama. She was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist. Annie J. Easley was one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist in NASA. As A computer scientist, Annie J. Easley has contributed to many projects, inspired many people by…
Inclusive Fridge
An interaction that most people go through on a daily basis, and take for granted, is with their fridge. If I were to redesign this, it could go a couple ways depending on the disability in mind. If my users were blind, I would try to integrate voice commands and responsivity based on verbal sound…
Brain Control System In The Future
The rapid technology change indeed affects all people in the world. I would not imagine that I could control my devices without touching it when I was pressing on my Nokia phone 10 years ago. And when I was little, I usually had some unrealistic thoughts, for example, I could get the things that I…
Interactivity Within Spaces: What was foreseen and what is seen now
Comparing Patterns from a Pattern by Christopher Alexander and the Visible Body Works demo, I can see some similarities. For example, Alexander talks about the clusters of communities in the workspace. In the demo, the clusters are demonstrated in a virtual space as “nooks.” Alexander also talks about rooms, within rooms, within rooms, that allow…
Freddy Anzures – the person behind iPhone’s iconic “slide-to-unlock”
Freddy Allen Anzures is a Filipino American designer who worked on the original design team of the iPhone, the single most influential device of this century. Anzures graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design, 1999. As one of the most prestigious design programs around the U.S., the environment at Carnegie…
Dori Tunstall
Dori Tunstall is a design anthropologist, or someone who studies how design translates values into tangible experiences. After receiving her BA in Anthropology, she obtained a Ph.D. in the subject from Stanford University. She is the first black dean of a faculty of design, and is currently working at Ontario College of Art and Design….