Author: Rebecca Lin

Lisette Titre-Montgomery

Lisette Titre-Montgomery is an art director in the Gaming Industry with over 17 years of experience designing games and leading creative teams. She has contributed to 13 titles, including Tiger Woods Golf, The Simpsons, Dante’s Inferno, Dance Central 3, SIMS 4. As a Black woman in a predominantly White, male profession, she certainly understands the…

Cipe Pineles

(June 23, 1908 – January 3, 1991) Cipe Pineles was a pioneer in the world of graphic design, breaking several glass ceilings as a woman in a male-dominated profession. But her long career working as an editorial designer established her as an extraordinary talent who forever changed that world through her innovations, especially for magazines….

Irene Au

Irene Au can be considered one of the pioneers in developing User Experience (UX) design into a distinct field of study and professional career choice. While studying for her master’s degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, she actually created her own program within Industrial Engineering called, “Human-Computer Interaction.” She was immediately…

People’s needs never change

In Cristopher Alexandra’s “A Pattern Language,” I found many connections between the social media we are using nowadays.I can see many patterns being applied to little features that blend into our everyday life. Especially #36 “degrees of publicness” and #14 “Identifiable Neighborhood”. In pattern #36, “degrees of publicness,” Alexandra talks about People are different: “the…

My Future Buddy

I like when J.C.R. Licklider talks about the necessity of having the Man-Computer Symbiosis: “It is often said that programming for a computing machine forces one to think clearly, that it disciplines the thought process. If the user can think his problem through in advance, symbiotic association with a computing machine is not necessary.” It…

Our Design Legacies

The techniques used by the Eames, Gerstner, and Sutnar seem to be in different fields, but they have a lot in common. For example, the Eames couple will do a lot of brainstorming before the actual designing, they will draw connections between each element they have listed out. I find it just like the “task…

We Are Deciding Our Future

Vannevar Bush’s idea “The Memex” used to be a new, complicated, and unreliable way of memorization for people in the 1930’s, but time turned it into a memory system on which modern people rely on. We changed complexity and reliability from synonyms to antonyms. Google has become the most popular search engine because they have…

Be Spiritual!

My manifesto would be “be spiritual!” With the continuous development of the material world, most human beings now live by the material. They feel that the things they hold in their hands are what truly belongs to them. But people forget the importance of the spiritual world. We forgot to listen to the truest voice…

2 little parts

In the video”The History of Books” when it introduced the Egyptian paper making, I noticed that the use of papyrus was not from 4000 BC, it is 1000 years early. From the oxford reference: “As a writing material, papyrus was in use in Egypt from at least 3000 BCE”Also when talking about the inventor of…

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