Here the mistake is that the video says the Codex is the earliest format of the book, however it is known that there is evidence of codexes first appearing in 1st Century AD (Peterson). Here the video claims paper was first invented between 179-41 BC, however the exact date of papers origins is still unknown,…
The future is AR Glasses.
As we observe the evolution of augmented and virtual reality, we can already confidently predict that our world of technology will no longer be confined to 2D screens, but begin implanting in the world all around us. It seems one of the next stems in our future of AR is through glasses. Apple is soon…
Tech should adapt to us not us adapting to it.
I find this week’s topic extremely interesting and have given the ethics of technology much thought as it has become more impactful to our lives. Through the evolution of technology, most of the time a product is successful because of user need, marketing, and most of all, money. As a result, money ends up driving…
Vivianne Castillo – Reframing UX Empathy
Not many have turned user research around and focused it not on customers, but on the designers themselves who craft the user experience. Vivianne Castillo is one of the first to challenging areas in the User Experience industry. She discovered two large challenge areas; the first being that many designers experience Compassion Fatigue and burnout…
Accessible Dating Apps
I was thinking about how hard it must be for disabled users who want to try online dating. Most of the apps are purely visual and rely on swiping left and right to create connections. Some newer apps encourage users to FaceTime, but are still built around static profiles and messaging. One idea I had…
Organizing concepts early in the design process using IA
Interaction Designers are very different from graphic designers as they focus their intentions for the design on user experiences interacting with the product or software. This means that a big part of an Interaction Designer’s job surrounds the planning, development, and organization of their concepts with many revisions and iterations before even beginning the prototyping…
Evolution of YouTube
Youtube is a popular video hosting website that paved the way for ordinary people to post creative content to the internet for others enjoyment. The original site was created in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, all former PayPal employees.1 The three creators of youtube were originally attempting to make an online…
Consequences from the Evolution of Social Media
Community has changed so much with the evolution of technology and the increasing accessibility of the internet. Back before the world wide web, was the beginnings of online social networking between the few who knew how to access and participate in the first online community platforms such as the Well. Within these communities, those with…
High Stakes in Oregon Trail
I think Oregon Trail was so popular because of its innate ability to bring players into a world that has stakes, and out of the reality they live in. Being an adventure game, players want to do well. There is an instant connection they have to their player and in turn they will make decisions…
Surviving Elements of the Original Computer Interfaces
Many of the familiar commands and interface elements we encounter everyday in modern technology are not too far from what was introduced in the first graphical user interfaces. Even the terms like window and desktop have survived from the early interfaces and are used commonly in conversations today. Back in the 1980’s when Xerox Star…
Distinct Grouping, Interconnectivity, and Multi-dimensional Interfaces
In Christopher Alexander’s patterns, the subjects of these patterns are oftentimes people, in groups, with categorizations, in communities, all connected and inter-networked. In the demo reel on Information landscapes, the subjects are mostly content and textually conveyed ideas, in groups, with categorizations, in larger systems, all connected and inter-networked. Aside from this clear commonality in…
Engagement Preferences, First Impressions, and Isolation; Transcending Physical & Virtual Spaces
Christopher Alexander’s patterns explore various approaches to architecture and urban design, specifically focusing on how those both impact the experience of community within different groupings. Number 36 of Alexander’s Pattern Language explains that people have different preferences when it comes to how isolated or public their place of residence is. Some individuals want to be…
PDA + BrainPal
Brain Pal Sound Sight Verbal feedback Thought feedback PDA Medical feedback Stylus Tangible All-functioning device
Norma Merrick – First Woman Architect Licensed in New York and California
Born in Harlem New York in April of 1926, Norma Merrick was a pioneering African American Architect whose legacy is inspiring and influential to this day. As a child, Merrick was labeled a very bright and creative person. Her father instilled the idea that she could achieve greatness regardless of what field she chose to…
Communicating with an Interface
The demo from Doug Englebart and the team from Stanford was extremely profound to the future of interaction design as it created the space for users to have interactions with a computer that incorporated graphical interface elements like we see today. The idea that users can experience an intimate screen where they control what is…
Brenda Laurel – Inclusive Gaming
Brenda Laurel is a defining figure in the field of computational media. Laurel was born on November 20th, 1950 in Columbus, Ohio. She originally pursued theatre at Depauw University and Ohio State University, but soon discovered her interest in personal computers. While studying for her PHD, Laurel’s friend showed her a computer imaging project he…
Expansive Tool Belt
To be multidisciplinary and expansive within the design landscape is powerful as it allows you to bring in all different perspectives and ideas to a project or problem.This is an important skill as interaction designers must be able to communicate with their team and understand all the sides that are involved in the entire process…
Good Design is Good Feeling.
Many Mid-Century designers laid the foundation for visual design as we know it today, some even considered how their designs would be digested and interacted-with by the people who used them. Ray and Charles Eames were among those, designing with both functionality and thoughtfulness collaboratively. They always kept the “big idea” of their work central,…
Extension of Ideas, Information, and the Mind
It is interesting to consider technology, particularly all the saved preferences and libraries we have collected in a sort of digital footprint. This concept of these libraries and preferences being preserved as an extension of our own memories was in a way being first imagined by engineers such as Vannevar Bush. Bush designed a machine…
John Maeda – Elegant Simplicity
John Maeda was born in Seattle Washington in 1966 and is most known as a contemporary American designer of Japanese origin. His father owned a tofu factory where Maeda helped him with paperwork on the computer, jumpstarting his interest in computer science. He decided to study the subject at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, right around…