Vannevar Bush published an essay in The Atlantic Monthly “As We May Think” in 1945. As early as the 1930s he was already ahead of his time in wanting to improve the way people accessed, stored, and communicated information. In this landmark article, he describes a hypothetical computer-like machine, the memex, which would help someone…
Grace Murray Hopper
Grace Murray Hopper was a computer scientist and mathematician whose career took shape from her work in analytic support in wartime. She was also the developer of the first compiler, a contributor to the program language COBOL, and later the developer of one of its progenitors. Her experience and philosophy have a huge impact on…
Interaction Design ft. Bauhaus
I think Bauhaus is a movement that influences interaction design. Bauhaus’s philosophy celebrates functionalism, simplicity, and accessibility in design. It advocates the use of industrial materials and inter-disciplinary methods and techniques. And you can find the exact same qualities in interaction design. Interaction design requires a more human-centered approach to design, it focuses on the…
Ada Lovelace & Lillian Gilbreth: Women in science
After watching videos and reading the articles on Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth, I think there are many similarities between both women especially the influences of the men in their lives. The first men that both Lillian Gilbreth and Ada Lovelace influence are their own fathers. Lillian Gilbreth’s father opposed her education but she overcame…
Manifesto of a young Interaction Designer
1. I view design as a collaborative process whereas you always learn more about yourself, your team, your users, and your community. I want to use creative practices to address the deepest challenges our communities face. 2. I work toward sustainability. I believe our designs should last longer, function better and have less to none…
A conversation about affordances between Gibson and Norman
Recently, the concept of affordance has been increasingly interested in the design community because it describes the relationship between human users and designed products well. It was first introduced by the perceptual psychologist James Gibson: “The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes, either for good or…
Some errors
The to demonstrate for the speech dated the invention of paper in China is “179-41 BC” But according to Ancient History Encyclopedia “Traditionally, paper was invented in the early 2nd century CE, but there is evidence it was much earlier. ” and “The traditional date for the invention of more refined paper has long been 105…
The Renaissance of human history
Arguably the most significant milestone of human history is the creation of movable type and its major development in the renaissance. Because of the mass production of book printing, knowledge is accessible for anyone whether you were rich or not. To me, that perhaps is the most powerful tool of both books and Interaction Design:…
From ancient human figures to skip buttons
Even with well-written languages and phonetic words in this digital world, we are already programmed to learn and understand the symbols and ideographs that existed thousands of years ago. In this blog entry, I want to focus on comparing some music-control buttons on Samsung Music to the Egyptian hieroglyphics and Sumerian logographs. Traveling through time,…