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…
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…
The Future of Technology &Safety
Safety is the term that came out of my mind when I was watching those trailers. In the shows, the society is under the control of technology, which human lost the ability to dominant. None of the world from those shows seems safe for me.What is the purpose of technology? From my point of view,…
Can’t Live without IA
Working as an interaction designer, I see IA as one of the most important parts of the design process. When I first learned IA in the foundation class, I didn’t realize that IA could be done much more than I expected until I got stuck with the system thinking for the experience design. Before, I…
35 years History of Excel
Do you know that Microsoft Excel has been helping businesses for about 35 years? Excel is a SAAS spreadsheet for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. It features calculation, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro programming language called Visual Basic for Applications. Once you downloaded Microsoft Office, Excel is included. Dan Bricklin, as known as…
Ellen Lupton
Bored in 1963, Ellen Lupton presents herself as a curator of Contemporary Art. In 1981, Lupton became a fine art student at Cooper Union in 1981 and discovered the expressive potential of typography. “Design really wasn’t in the mainstream back then. It was esoteric. It was the thing you did if you were very ‘neat,’ which…
Reality & vision!
Tell the truth, I didn’t get attracted by the Oregon Trail that much. Because I am not a fan of a computer game and I already tried several games that really fancy and cool, I get bored within several ’day’ rounds. (am I the only one?) From my point of view, the game is organized…
I MUST compare those UIs!
Those early days demo are so so exciting! I always want to compare the Mac and the Windows UI for so long and now I know that I have to do it! Yeah! For me, Mac provides more freedom for users to experience different kinds of functions, such as font and wallpaper. As a beginner…
Annie Easley: Rocket Scientist
When Easley was little, her mother had encouraged her to study hard, telling her that she could be anything she wanted but she would have to work for it. Easley majored in Pharmacy when she attended Xavier University in New Orleans in 1951 and then left the school for marriage in 1954. Even though Easley didn’t…
The magic of turning 2D to 3D
We all know that the experience of watching the video Information Landscapes is on a 2D Screen, but we have the feeling that we are moving around through the video. I definitely have the feeling that I am in a building filled with content. Think about that! Before getting into the room, the audience is…
Online Collaboration Pattern
Work Community to Teamwork In the Work Community, Christopher Alexander mentions the different jobs can be placed in one workplace community. In teamwork, as the community is transferred from the physical environment, there are no boundaries for staff who play different roles and jobs. Engineers, project managers, and designers can work together. Also, in Teamwork,…
Symbiosis Between us and tech
From the article Man-Computer Symbiosis (1960), the author J.C.R. Licklider mentioned the importance of the Computer-Posted Wall Display. He said that some information must be presented simultaneously to all the men, preferably on a common grid, to coordinate their actions. Nowadays online collaboration becomes more and more important and necessary, especially when COVID-19 happened. The…
First Prototype-The Mother of All Demos
Tell the truth, it took me a while to figure out how the first demo of the computer that Doug Engelbart presented. Using the control panel which combined with the keyboard and mouse, Engelbart showed us the series of actions for sorting and organizing the shopping list (See the screenshot above). Although it took me…
Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh
Margaret Macdonald, as known as one of the “The Glasgow Four”, was one of the most gifted and successful women artists in Scotland in the 1890s. As one of the first girls allowed to enroll in the Glasgow School of Art, Margaret and her friends transformed decorative and interior design with their new ‘Glasgow Style….
Observation-a must for design research
Behavior learning is a key part of design research nowadays, and I would like to strongly mention observation. When Dreyfuss and his team realized that the users won’t just stay in where the phone was placed, they reduced the weight of the princess phone and made it portable. The insight is based on observation. Here…
Measuring human bodies!
As a designer with an industrial design background, I just couldn’t imagine how important the measurement of the man, woman, kids, and those with special needs are. It definitely is a milestone for design, for all industrial design products used by humans are more or less need the measurement standard from the human factors. The…
Patricia Moore
Patricia Moore, also as known as the Mother of Universal Design, is a female industrial designer in the US. Graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology, Moore chose to complete advanced studies in biomechanics at the New York University School of Medicine and the Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. Realized how important of taking empathic research to the extreme to design…