I did my futures wheel on Hover Cars. I am personally excited about the idea of a hyper-loop and since that future isn’t too far off, I wanted to go further into the future about travel. Part of my interpretations of the future with hover cars came from the Back to the Future movie, when…
What Is and What Could Be
In order for our tech to reach the level of interactivity shown in the sci-fi clips, we would mostly need time. With the Black Mirror example, we are essentially already there. A majority of people now are used to sharing their opinions about people online. The web is so free and open that we generally…
Designing With Intent
I recently had an annoying experience with the target.com app. I was looking to buy Christmas stockings or something but I was struggling to find the “add to cart” button. It turns out there are 2 buttons for purchasing items but they work differently. One called “Deliver it” means it will be delivered to your…
A little UI here a little UX there
One of the first things I learned about Interaction Design was about Information Architecture. We had started to understand it by using index cards marked with things you could find in a grocery store. We were tasked to group these cards in a way that made sense and then to compare it with a partner….
Cipe Penelis
Cipe Pineles was an iconic female visual designer and Art director. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1908 she would go on to change the way we communicate through publications and magazines in the US forever.(About) She did this also while advocating for women who work during a time of changing gender roles. While holding many…
Is there such a thing as too many patents?
Spotify Launched: April 23, 2006 in Stockholm, Sweden Original founders: Daniel Ek, Martin Lorentzon Current CEO: Daniel Ek Currently owned by Spotify AB a publicly traded company They have many many many patents available including one for their cross-fade option where users can choose to have songs fade into each other. Spotify has a patent…
Big Bad Servers – BBSes to mobile phones
BBSes remind me of that scene in the 1996 film Scream, where Drew Berrymore is being chased throughout her house and manages to lock herself in her room. She then goes to her computer and runs some system where she “called” 911 and typed out what was happening and she got a very slow response….
How do you stop?
Organ Trail is such an iconic game. I’ve never had the chance to play it (until this week) but had always heard people talk about how great and terrible it is. Most people actually love the game it’s the feeling of defeat that hits even harder with this game’s required time investment. Immediately starting the…
Cooperation with Computers
The Xerox Star was a fascinating intro to user interfaces. The use of icons to create familiarity and the ability to control and organize your electronic space is huge to the field of personal computers. I also thought the keys with specific functions were a notable aspect of the Xerox Star experience. More commonly now…
Things you do over and over
Christopher Alexanders ideas on Work Community resonate with how the app Slack works. Alexander writes, “Workplaces must not be too scattered, nor too agglomerated, but clustered in groups of about 15.” With slack companies are able to create open networks of communication between all employees while still offering specific communication spaces when they are needed….
Old Man War Tech
I took a bit of a different direction and drew the PDA to look like it came out of Back to the Future (the movie). I also made it that off-yellow color like it was a 90’s computer. I figure if its for war it won’t look as polished.
April Greiman: The Embracer
Corey Rossi IXD History Fall 2020 April Greiman, born September 10th, 1948 in New York City, is an American contemporary graphic designer based in Los Angeles, California.2 She is currently the Director of her own design firm known as, Made in Space.1 Made in Space isn’t just any design firm, they implement a multi-disciplinary approach,…
IBM Can Predict the Future?
In Mother of All Demos, they took the “show” rather than “tell” approach, and immediately you can see how this is used in keynotes and other tech presentations to this day. Doug Englebart begins by showing the first version of the copy/ paste feature we know and love. Which I think was humorous in that…
Think, Think, Think
Henry Dreyfuss, Charles and Ray Eames, Karl Gustner, and Ladislav Sutner all had some amazing contributions to the world of interaction design, and to people. They designed with people in mind, and managed to consider how people would act/ react to new things, how these things would be considered in the lives of their “users.”…
It’s All in the Technique
Charles and Ray Eames are pretty awesome in that they were working with so many different materials and made so many different chairs with different combinations of features. When people would use their products they learn each time what made those chairs successful or not then applied that data to their ultimate design, the Eames…
The First Lady of Engineering
Lillian Moller Gilbreth: Americas First Lady of Engineering Lillian Gilbreth, born May 24, 1978 in Oakland California, was a trailblazer in Industrial Engineering, Psychology, and Industrial Management. She began her journey as Americas First Lady of Engineering after she obtained her bachelors in English from Berkley, a Master degree in psychology, and becoming Frank Gilbreth’s,…
It’s a Bird, it’s a Plane, No it’s.. an Authoring and Collecting tool?
Vannevar Bush wanted a system, the Memex, that would unify a community of scholars to share information and knowledge. In “As We May Think” Bush mentions, “Certainly progress in photography is not going to stop.” And he certainly was right! He noticed that the development and innovation in cameras and film weren’t developed by just…
Manafest-oh no she didn’t!
We all have our own realities Approach others with the idea that your experiences can’t be fully understood. Everyone experiences things at different rates and levels of understanding so don’t be upset when someone’s experience doesn’t align with your own. 2. Work one service job that you don’t get fired from If you are designing…
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…