Go in with good intentions. Do not design to exploit peoples’ wallets. Find the real problems someone faces instead of jumping to the palliative solution. Realize that not everyone wants the same things as you do in a product and cater to who you’re creating for. Always consider accessibility and inclusivity within your work. Only…
Why Understanding Leads to Innovation
As any person who wishes to contribute to the development of society, it is important to learn about history in general. For designers, learning about such monumental events as the invention of moveable type and the Renaissance era is integral to innovation. In any field, you must learn from what others did in the past…
The essentiality of good design within affordable housing
To many, the words “good design” invokes images of aesthetics and pleasurable visuals. The common misconception is that design is an expendable amenity, especially when it comes to affordable housing. If the focus is to keep things within budget, why waste money on design? The paper “Bringing the Power of Design to Affordable Housing: The…
Bonus Writing: The History of Books Errors
In the TEDx talk about the history of books, there are a couple historical inconsistencies. The first one I found was about the claim that the codexes from Greece and Mesoamerica was the first written book, created in the 4th century and the 11th century respectively. However, in the 3rd century, Sumerians in Mesopotamia had…
Iconography of the Past and Present
In many ways, the foundations for modern day iconography and logos can be traced back to as early as 5000 BCE, or the eras in which cuneiform, hieroglyphs, and cave paintings first surfaced. What we know as ‘writing’ today went through a myriad of transformations, but started off in a familiar form: pictographs. Much of…