Memex is the idea that first came out at “Mechanization and the Record” by Vannevar Bush. Back in the 1930s, Vannevar Bush was ahead of his time and wanted to improve the way people access, store, and communicate information. In this landmark article, he describes a hypothetical computer-like machine, the memex, which would help someone…
Bauhaus’s philosophy can apply on interaction design
Bauhaus focused on the mass production of goods and how design could help everyday life. It was done to add soul to manufactured products and add social relevance to the arts. The rejection of ornamentation in favour of prioritising the function is Bauhaus’s philosophy.In interaction design, we need to focus on the function first(user experience),…
Amazing female game designer —-Dona Bailey
Dona Bailey was the programmer on a four-person team for the successful Atari arcade game Centipede in her first assignment. She was hired by Atari in 1980 and was the only female programmer in its nascent arcade division. When she left the much larger Atari two years later, she was still the only woman in…
Peter’s Manifesto
I am a designer. I design something to help people and solve problems for people. Design is different from art, art is about self-express, but the design is about to think for others. When I was young, I wanted to be a superhero because superhero’s job is to help people. After I grow up, I…
Ada Lovelace’s contributions to Interaction Design
Ada Lovelace knew lots of famous scientists such as Andrew Crosse, Charles Babbage, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone, Michael Faraday and the author Charles Dickens because of her family and education environment. The documentaries of these men scientists’ achievement are very detailed and well-explain compared with women scientists. One of her friend Charles Wheatstone is an excellent English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical…
Moveable Type and Renaissance in Interaction Designe
The understanding of the moveable type and the Renaissance is important in Interaction Design. As an interaction designer our products are nothing without the users interacting with them. We rely on our users to be able to process the information we are sharing through our intentionality. The emergence of moveable type was huge for the…
Errors
1.The first error I found is the date of the codex. I believe it can be traced back to the 1st century, not the 4th century. 2.The second error I found is the image for two Chinese movable type should be in reverse. 3.The third error I found is the paper was invented around 105A.D…
The Challenges of Incorporating Technological Tools in Online Learning Environment
I believe everyone is new to face these challenges which are having class online; a traditional face-to-face learning environment usually involves students, the instructor, and the learning materials. But in an online learning environment, four kinds of interaction that can occur when learning takes place via the Internet: (1) learner-content, (2) learner-instructor, (3 learner-learner, and…
From Egyptian Hieroglyphs To VoiceThread’s Iconography
The foundations of iconography can be traced back to Ancient Egypt. At that time, people used Egyptian hieroglyphs which combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters to communicate with each other. In this blog, I want to compare the icon of nowaday application(VoiceThread) with the Egyptian hieroglyphs and see if there is any commonality between these…