Virtual reality aims to make users experience an alternative existence, which isolates them as far as possible from the real world. This artificial illusion prioritizes user-centered control, replicating users’ behavior and gestures. Virtual reality devices such as Oculus Rift and HTC Vibe support vision, sound, and touch with accompanied controllers and headsets.Virtual reality with full…
Immersive Reality
Sci-fi shows visualize the extreme prediction of the future with technological advancement. In Black Mirror, an episode Nosedive shows advanced technology by applying augmented reality visible through eyes. People can rate each other, which resembles the caste system. Depending on the rating, people get benefits or disadvantages if one’s rating is low. It limits people to…
Be Haptic, Instagram
After watching the videos, I found that the design should care more about aesthetics and usability, which often ignores the aesthetics, referred to like the word ‘Discrete.’In the video of Ellen Lupton’s lecture, she describes how to exhibit objects with braille for both disabled and non-disability people, considering other sensories.According to an article by a…
Jerry Lawson: Game Changer
Jerry Lawson was an engineer and game designer who was out of a stereotype of engineers in 1970s America (IGN). During the 1970s, he was one of the few Black engineers.With his parents’ dedication to education, he was able to cultivate his natural interest in engineering (IGN). His first-grade teacher, Ms. Guble, influenced him to…
IA in BestBuy
Interaction Design features a direction to improve a user’s experience through graphics, such as buttons and micro-interactions. On the contrary, Information Architecture focuses on defining the standards for information management, making coherent and straightforward labeling so that businesses could structure the data and understand the relationship between data. Users could access the data in a…
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer was one of the dominant browsers in the old days, during the 2000s and declined by Chrome. Even I remember that every people used Internet Explorer when I was in primary school. It was a project led by Thomas Reardon and five teammates in Microsoft.1 The customized version of Spyglass’s Mosaic web browser…
Virtual Globe
The Well: No anonymity: username in the social media these days(anonymous) but Facebook requires real life info(Name instead of Username). Hypertext: represent information, goal to permit fast and easy access to vast quantities of information. Menu category and tags allow community to define the content. Smartphones: made people to record moments and share it via…
Visual and Musical
After playing Oregon Trail, this game delivers people to imagine what the 19th century was. The country background music of strings and flute makes gamers get immersed in the gameplay. Graphic elements are another key factor for the immersive experience. Icons are easy to link up with the labeled text. The overview of the status…
Ctrl+C, V to Behaviour
In the 1980s, the personal computer emerged with a preliminary desktop interface. The graphic metaphors for the computers, such as icons of a folder and disk, floppy disk to the hard drive, exist these days. There is a menu bar at the top in a demo of the Macintosh desktop interface, which still is found…
Tomoko Miho
Tomoko Miho is a Japanese-American graphic designer, born in 1931 and spent her early years at an Arizona internment camp during World War II.1 After graduation at Minneapolis College of Art and Design and Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, she worked for George Nelson, an American industrial designer known for being one of…
Humane Communication
Christopher Alexander presented case studies of human patterns. Degrees of Publicness claim to make a clear definition between three different kinds of people: extrovert, intermediate, and introvert by explaining planning houses placement. Facebook has a setting to make one’s profile visible to people. In the Friends tab, Facebook suggests people a user may know, accompanied by two responses:…
PDAandBrainPal
PDA: Health check Indication thru brain pal, Warning when health get worse Alarm: pop up screen with music, Music get silenced after touching the snooze button. BrainPal: Transfer Neural data, use those data to PDA. Voice heard to brain or text on sight.
Computing process
Doug Englebart’s team proposes a demo of how the data are related to another, and how it’s classified, using the prototype of an early computer and the three tools: mouse, keyboard, and a keypad. Doug Englebart types the text on the blank screen. There’s a beep sound for every aspect of the action. There are…
Abby Covert
“I’m an information architect who loves to make sense of messes.”1 – Abby Covert defines herself with a single sentence. Abby Covert has started off with a graphic design career, working in layout design, printing, concept research, and branding design. Then she switched to Information architecture. Since 2004, Abby devoted to the information architecture community…
Valuable assets for a better designer
Dreyfuss appealed the Human-centred design, focusing on how people enhance their life’s security using the design and minimize the impact on people’s fluidity behavior. His principle affected the products to be human-friendly in terms of safety. The round edge of tables or the rubber cover for corners is to avoid the injury from sharp edges….
Legacy
Midcentury designers affected the basics of Interaction Design—Eames, who designed an iconic Plywood chair, respecting hands, and materials. They also developed through making prototypes and iterations. Gerstner claimed that historical examples to address the design. He empathized that design should work with any device and anywhere. Sutnar, a Czech designer who affected America, suggested that…
Jorge Arango: Make the complex clear
John Seungjun Cho Erin Malone IxD History 23 September 2020 Jorge Arango: Make the complex clear Jorge Arango, a professor in the CCA Interaction Design program, is an interaction designer who “architected digital experiences and made the complex clear” He works as a design consultant, which helps the organization have the same understanding and share…
Bush to Instagram
Bush claimed the web’s initial idea through memex, a machine recording collection of data, and the process of searching the data through examination. Bush also claims that the human mind is not like a machine: recognizing a single item gets spread by associated thoughts carried out in a web of the trail that is called…
For a better world
Since I decided to pursue design, I could grasp to live in different countries, the UK, the USA, and my home country, South Korea. While staying in the UK, I faced an utterly exotic system compared to Korea. The different language was an obvious obstacle. The education was different: having 13th grade and a 3-year-long…
Errors
In the video, ‘History of Books”, speaker claims that papyrus was made in 4000 BC. However, according to the research done by Pierre Tallet, posted on Smithsonian magazine, oldest papyrus was made in 2600 BC. The speaker also claims that moveable type was made by Johannes Gutenberg in 16th century. But based on the lecture…