Author: Brian Zhao

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…

Redesign iPhone

The device that I last came to make interaction with is my cell phone. My iPhone is supposed to be very interactive friendly for all kinds of users since it has lots of functions that were designed just for the users with disabilities. There are functions like narrator that can describe the current screen, connecting…

Mabel Addis

Brian Zhao Erin Malone IXD History November 24, 2020 Mabel Addis Mabel Addis was a teacher, writer, and video game designer. She was born in Mount Vernon on May 21, 1912. Mabel graduated from Brewster High School in 1929 and she earned a bachelor’s degree in ancient history from Barnard College in 1933. After that,…

IA is Crucial to IXD

The biggest difference between information architecture and interaction design is that information architecture focuses on making complex clear by arranging information while interaction design focuses on creating smoother and better user experience.  The information architecture is very supportive and even crucial to interaction design. When we visit a random shopping website, we can always see…

Our Virtual Community

The early world wide web made people realize the importance of communication and freely sharing information and people continued to dig into the value of that. The internet’s attribute of being able to let users communicate freely still remains the same until today. But the internet in recent years are more advanced and sophisticated, people…

How History Happened

The computer user interface system has been evolving since it appeared. The starting point of this history is the Xerox Star. Xerox Star provided a very good base for the later user interface design. It introduced windows, icons, option sheets, files, folder, and generic commands. Mouse and keyboard were also utilized in this system, and…

Patterns & Spaces

Christopher Alexander had come up with many pattern designs for communities and public spaces. The one design that really stood out to me was his work community design. Christopher thinks that if people are spending as much time living in the workspace as they are living in their homes, then the workspace should be treated…

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…

Irene Au

Brian Zhao Erin Malone IXD History October 13, 2020 Irene Au Irene Au is an interaction designer, a design partner, a mentor, and a yoga teacher. Au attended the University of South Carolina (USC) from 1990 to 1994, she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Au finished USC without…

A Fundamental System

Doug Englebart and his team developed an interactive operating system of computers and made a demonstration of the system in 1968. During the demonstration, Englebart showed audiences the early prototype of graphical user interfaces (GUI) which is composed of mouse, keyboard, and a screen (monitor). The things that Englebart and his team could do with…

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…

The Hidden Heroine: Annie Easley

Brian Zhao Erin Malone IXD History 26 September 2020 Annie Easley Annie Easley is NASA’s first African American computer and rocket scientist. She was born in Birmingham of Alabama on April twenty-third, 1933. Although the Jim Crow Laws were enforced in Alabama and the opportunities for African Americans to receive education were very limited at…

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