Krista Donaldson was born in 1973. She is an engineer and currently is a CEO in D-Rev, which is a nonprofit product design and engineering company. Before D-Rev, Krista was an economic officer at the US Department of State where she worked on economic policy and the reconstruction of Iraq’s electricity sector, and as a…
Brain Control System In The Future
The rapid technology change indeed affects all people in the world. I would not imagine that I could control my devices without touching it when I was pressing on my Nokia phone 10 years ago. And when I was little, I usually had some unrealistic thoughts, for example, I could get the things that I…
What Will Our Future Community Be Like?
We are currently living in a world that data and information can be easily shared and used mutually. It is undeniable that a shared community indeed brings large benefits to people. For example, communities that share resources help people search for information quickly and conveniently. By using high technological products, such as the Internet, we…
Breaking Limits
We design features that need to be accessible to all types of users. Designing for disabled people helps all of us. In my life, I have noticed that disabled people are more sensitive and adaptive. They are more sensitive to the limitations they have. For most of us, we must experience temporary activity limitations, such…
Why IA and Interaction Design are Inseperable
One of the main goals of interaction design is helping users get somewhere to achieve their goals easily and efficiently. As interaction designers, we aim to create a user-friendly experience. For the information architecture (IA), it focuses on structuring and organizing the information. A good interaction design always based on a direct and structured information…
Darcy DiNucci
Darcy DiNucci is a web designer, author and expert in user experience. As a head of user experience at Ammunition, DiNucci focuses on designing end-to-end experiences that crystalize a business’s value for the people who engage with it. DiNucci’s work has been instrumental in the success of projects for Adobe, Intel, the University of California,…
Figma:A Web-based Design Tool
Figma was founded in 2012 by Dylan Field and Evan Wallace. Some of the original designers who worked on Figma were Lucyné Babayan, Marcin Wichary, Bradee Evans, Tori Hinn, Nikolas Klein, Peter Herbert Barnaba, Rasmus Andersson, and Noah Levin. In 2015, Figma, the first design tool that combined the accessibility of the web with the…
Build a Technical System for Human Interactions
In the early days of developing social experiences of communities was aimed to build a technical system for virtual human interaction. In other words, people want to establish relationships and social environments virtually through technology. As we can see today, we spend a huge amount of time on maintaining and expanding our social networks through…
Denise Scott Brown
Denise Scott Brown was born in Zambia and was raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is still alive and was born in 1937. She is an architect, urban planner, and designer of postmodernism. Furthermore, Denise Scott Brown was a partner in the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. She graduated from the University of…
Why Kids Like Oregon Trail?
I think this game was popular because it was visually attractive and customizable. The players could choose their favorite characters, determine how they would spend their money, and which routes they would travel. It was visually similar to the arcade games such as Pacman, as seen through the fonts. In Oregon Trial, it allows people…
What We Learn from Changes of GUIs
According to the video of Xerox Star, there are multiple files and documents icons shown on the desktop. Those icons are familiar objects we all see in the office, representing different contents such as files, documents, records of files, and files drawer. When the users open the document, a window comes up with the contents…
The Demo to Today’s Technology
The demo from the Visible Language Workshop presents interconnections between visual elements that share a similarity with Christoper Alexander’s Patterns. As Christopher Alexander mentioned in Patterns from a Pattern Language, “work communities will help form boundaries, and then form activity nodes”. In the demo video, it shows virtual building blocks which navigate the viewers in…
Xia Peisu
Xia Peisu was a computer scientist born in Chongqing, China. A year after attaining her bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1945, she met her husband Yang Liming. She then pursued postgraduate studies at the Telecommunications Research Institute of National Chiao Tung University. In 1947, she began her PhD in electrical engineering at the University…
Pattern languages in Modern Design
Work community to slack According to #41 Work Community from Christopher Alexander’s patterns, Alexander proposed a theory that workspaces function as communities. He stated five relationships about these work communities which help form activity nodes and still can be seen in modern technology platforms. For the five relationships he mentioned, It reminds me of some…
Imagined PDA and Brain Pal
Brain Pal Inspired by John Scalzi’s fiction, I am thinking of the way to combine AR interfaces with actual objects. For example, people can plug in chargers into the interfaces instead of sockets. Maybe in the future, architectures we construct today can be composed of AR interfaces.
Reflections on “The Mother of All Demos”
The prototypes Doug Engelbart initially published a programme of action which made a great influence on future interaction design in terms of GUI. From the video ”The Mother of All Demos”, it is great to see Engelbart shows instantly responsive and real-time editing features on the computing interfaces. He also makes use of the mouse…
Grace Hopper Biography
Grace was born and raised in New York City in the year 1906. She majored in mathematics and physics at Vassar College. In 1928, Grace graduated from Vassar College and furthered her mathematics studies at the University of Yale. This year she also got married to Vincent Hopper hence becoming Grace Hopper. She interestingly kept…
Exploring Connections between Humans and Products
In my view, a designer should act as an intermediate person between the people and the products or works rather than a server. In other words, designers need to explore relationships and connections between humans and other subjects. As such, designers will not be limited and restricted by existing frames in particular subject fields. Bill…
Addressing Human Needs
Eames, Gerstner, and Sutnar improved and reinvented the forms and organizations based on the principles of human ergonomics and human factors. They aim to bring convenience to humans. Furthermore, they addressed the importance of user experience. Firstly, Eames’ design of chairs takes users’ need into consideration instead of producing chairs in bulk. Secondly, Grester’s responsive…
Reflection on Bauhuas Philosophy
It is unprecedented that Bauhaus philosophy tends to combine the aesthetics and everyday function. One of the principles Bauhaus strives for is that function before form. It underlies the importance of functionality and can be related to the principles of interaction designs. For modern interaction designers, we mean to create products that help the users…