Google’s Motion Sense technology has been five years in the making. Thanks to Soli, a miniature motion-sensing radar that detects when the user is nearby and can recognize certain gestures, owners of the Pixel 4 can skip songs, snooze alarms, and silence phone calls with a simple wave of the hand. Google promises that these…
Zuzana Licko
Zuzana Licko was born in 1961 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Licko’s father was a biomathematician and at the University of California, San Francisco. Through his job, she became involved with computers during the summer months, helping him with data processing work. The first font she created was designed in the Greek alphabet for her father. Czechoslovakia…
The Ethics of The Technology
“Nosedive” not only looks at how social media affects society, but also imagines how it might be changed in the future. The Atlantic describes this episode as “a version of America where every tiny interaction is ranked by the people involved on an app that [is synced] with augmented-reality contact lenses.” The episode focuses on…
Redesign the reading software for blind people
Accessibility is the concept of whether a product or service can be used by everyone—however they encounter it. Accessibility laws exist to aid people with disabilities, but designers should try to accommodate all potential users in many contexts of use anyway. To do so has firm benefits—notably better designs for all. I am going to…
Information Architecture
In my opinion, IA design follows very similar patterns to flowcharting: Add shapes and connect them with lines in an organized fashion to a single document. The challenge when building IA is in understanding how the app or website actually works from the user’s perspective, and how to organize that information into a readable, legible format. I…
Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray was born in Wexford in 1878. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London and the Académie Julian in Paris where she lived for most of her life. Gray collaborated with Seizo Sugawara, a Japanese expert in decorative lacquer work for several years. In 1910 Gray opened a workshop with Sugawara…
Three Decades Of Google’s Development(1998, 2008, 2018)
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two computer science graduate students, met at Stanford in 1995 and created what would become one of the most useful inventions of all-time — a highly usable and accurate internet search engine. In 1998, Google’s branding began to take form, progressing from the wacky older logo above (and others) into…
the Evolution of Social Media
Social apps’ general concept is to bring people together to communicate about interests, topics, and other issues. (Like Tiktok, Ins) As technology has advanced since the days of The Well and eWorld, the world has evolved towards a global network with millions of people communicating through various social platforms and media. The users of these…
Shigeru Miyamoto And His “Donkey Kong”
Shigeru Miyamoto is a Japenese game designer and producer at Nintendo. He created the Donkey Kong, Mario, Pikmin and The Legend of Zelda video game series for Nintendo. Miyamoto grew up in a very low-tech world, where fun had to come from his imagination. He was very adventurous as a child, exploring the hillsides, creek…
Life Is Hard, But We Still Need to Move On.
After playing the 1990 version of Oregon Trail, the first thought that comes to my mind is ” So Boring.” I am not a person who likes to play the game with too much text content and a lack of visual interest.But I suddenly realize that this game was designed in 1990, so I think…
From Early UI Design To Now
Looking at the graphical user interfaces of the Xerox Star (1982) and the Macintosh (1984) and comparing them to modern computers and devices, we can see what has changed and what has remained largely the same.The first thing that has changed is the computer keyboard. We can see designers simplify the keyboard by removing some…
From The Design pattern To The Demo From the Visible Language Workshop
Christopher Alexander creates the design pattern based on his observation of architecture, urban design, and community livability. I think there is some similarity between the design pattern and interaction design. Here I am using the demo from the Visible Language Workshop as an example. In #41 Work Community, Christopher suggests that workplaces must not be…
Similar Design Patterns in Slack
Christopher Alexander creates the design pattern based on his observation of architecture, urban design, and community livability. I think there is some similarity between the design pattern and interaction design.Here I am using the Slack as an example. In #41 Work Community, Alexander suggests that workplaces must not be too scattered, nor too agglomerated, but…
Xia Peisu
Xia Peisu, b. 1923 in Chongqing, Sichuan Province, came from a literary family. She is a specialist in computer science and technology. Xia Peisu started attending primary school at the age of four and a half and studied at home under a private tutor for six years, from the age of eight. Her excellent academic…
Different Thinking About Man-Computer Symbiosis
Licklider said, “Men are noisy, narrow-band devices.” On the other hand, “computer machines single-minded and constrained.” There is a difference between a human and a computer. A computer doesn’t need to take a rest or eat a sandwich. It doesn’t have to rack its brains for an elusive answer.Artificially intelligent machines write many of today’s…
From Doug Englebart’s demonstration to Interaction Design
Doug Englebart and his team demonstrated the oN-Line System, which featured many of the elements prevalent in modern computing, including the use of a mouse and keyboard for efficient navigation and input, video-conferencing, multiple windows, and collaborative work functions. Engelbart’s vision was to shift the focus from the computer to the user, which is the…
Amazing Female Graphic Designer– Susan Kare
Many women in tech have helped shape the modern world, such as Ada Lovelace , Hedy Lamarr or Annie Easley. Today, I wanted to honour a particular woman in tech who’s had such an immense impact on our lives. She is Susan Kare. Susan Kare is a graphic designer who designed many of the interface elements…
From Mid-Century design to 21th century design
I think midcentury designers’ views have many commons; for example, they are human-oriented, which achieved basic principles of interaction design;Dreyfuss’s s quoted say, “when the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed.” which means we need to design for humans.This is an important…
Midcentury designers built the foundation of Interaction Design.
Karl Gerstner was a leading representative of Swiss typography and one of the essential typography innovators, advertising graphics and corporate design. Ray Eames was an American artist, designer, and filmmaker. She was responsible for groundbreaking contributions in the photographic arts. Ladislav Sutnar was a graphic designer from Plzeň who was a pioneer of information design and information architecture.They are masters of visual design and information architecture,…