Author: Philip Joo

Thanks but No Thanks

The technology presented in these Science Fiction shows isn’t very far off from what we currently have.  For the Black Mirror episode of Nosedive, there is research and development for a smart contact lens by Mojo Vision at the moment.  https://www.wired.com/story/mojo-vision-smart-contact-lens/ The idea takes eye-tracking technology and utilizes it to create a visual display with…

Microsoft Word: Then and Now

Microsoft Word (originally known as Multi-Tool Word) was introduced in the early 1980s by software developers Richard Brodie and Charles Simonyi who came to work for Microsoft from Xerox.  Although Microsoft Word was made available for both Macintosh and computers using MS-DOS, It wasn’t until 1989, when Word shifted its focus to Windows, bundled with…

PDA & Brain Pal for CDF

Here’s what I got from the reading of the PDA and Brain Pal’s capabilities/features. Once the features were written down, I sketched out my design of the PDA. From the description of how Brain Pal functions, I figured it would be surgically implanted onto the surface of the visual cortex as it mentions its capabilities…

Designing for People, by People

Henry Dreyfuss, a notable industrial designer who quoted “when the point of contact between the product and people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed” created works like The Measure of Man which helped construct principles that revolved around ergonomics (human-factors engineering).  He also incorporated the importance of approaching every problem…

Janine Benyus

Janine Benyus is a biologist, science writer and co-founder of Biomimicry 3.8 (consultancy) and Biomimicry Institute which deals with the study of nature and how it can inspire ideas in order to create designs with sustainable solutions.  Born in 1958 in New York City, she graduated with a BS in Natural Resource Management and a…

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