Author: Peter Peng

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…

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…

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