Today, the way most of us interact with devices through screens. Like our cellphone, tablet, laptop, computer, and TV. They all work through the screen. So I think the question and the problem for future interaction designers are how to design out of the screen? Today, there are a lot of interactive devices that came…
Today’s Sci-Fi Shows, Tomorrow our life?
By looking at those Science Fiction television shows, it brings out a lot of really cool idea of how technology in the future might look like. Even though some of them are kind of too futuristic, we might not see them in a short time. However a lot of them are already in progress, some…
Braille Board
I think today’s UI or app have already included some feature for users who were blind, physically disabled, or have hearing issues. However, I think most of the force users to learn something new. But sometimes is already really hard for the normal user to learn new features, so I think maybe we can build…
IA and Interaction Design
Information Architecture is very different from the Architecture we usually know. However, it has a strong connection with interaction design. As a student who majors in interaction design, I didn’t know how important IA for interaction designers in the past. However, after I dive into more project I just realize Information Architecture is like the…
Clement Mok
Clement Mok is a designer, instigator, and consultant. He graduated from the Art Center College of Design Graphic Design program. He was a creative director at Apple during the early ’80s, and he starts to transfer from a graphic designer to more like an information architect also interaction designer. During almost five and a half…
Final Cut Pro
Final Cut Pro is software that a lot of video editors who are Mac users used today. A lot of people chose to use it because it creates a much simple, clean, smooth, and faster experience compare to Adobe Premiere Pro. Back in 1998, Macromedia had hired Randy Ubillos’ group to create digital video editing…
Dantley Davis
Dantley Davis is currently a chief design officer at Twitter. He had a lot of experience working on UX of consumer products in social media like Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo; streaming services like Netflix, payment like PayPal, and video games Trion Worlds. Dantley Davis was a graduate of the University of San Francisco with Information system…
Oregon Trail
I think the reason why Oregon Trail was famous is that it was easy to play, it is just like a simple Q&A to make the story continue and make characters survive. Every element and button inside this game is really clear and easy to understand, so people can make their own decision to continue…
Xerox Star and Macintosh
Since computers this product have walked into normal people’s life, any type of user interface that creates a better experience had been designed. And Xerox Star released in 1982 and Macintosh released in 1984 were the sign of the user interface of the first generation. Some designs are already been replace by today’s new design…
Joy Mountford
Her impact continues through the International Design Expo, which she created over 20 years ago to challenge the next generation of interdisciplinary graduates. Joy Mountford is a leading designer who is in human-computer interface, user experience, and interaction design. She had work in a lot of big companies before like Honeywell, Apple, Yahoo….. and a…
Christopher Alexander’s Patterns till Today
Christopher Alexander had created many different patterns. Those claim an idea of how to structure a community, and different patterns can work in different types of situations. And those are still a really important resource for designing software or apps. For example structure of the pattern #41 “Work Community” can still find in today’s app….
Demos and Improve
By watching “The Mother of All Demos” and “The History of IBM”, we can learn a lot from their demo, some of it is still success to today’s interaction designer to practice. But also some of them could be better. Doug Englebart and the Stanford team have done many demos on the computer during that…
Sue Booker and Siri
Have you ever use Siri? How do you feel about it? Do you think it is smart, does it help you sometimes, is Siri make your experience using iPhone getting easier? Today, we are going to look at the Design Manager of Siri, Sue Booker.Sue Booker is currently the Design Manager of Siri Health &…
Mid-century Designers are “Design for People”
In the world of interaction design, there are a lot of ideas discover by some successful designers. Like Eames couple, Ladislav Sutnar, and Karl Gerstner. Even though they are successful in different areas of design, but their ideas do help interaction designers to improve and create a better experience for their users. Ray and Charles…
From Memex to Instagram
Memex is the idea that first came out at “Mechanization and the Record” by Vannevar Bush. A few years later it is written down in “As We May Think.” Memex is like the base model of today’s personal computer. it first designed as a personal library, which collect all the data and information users might…
Irene Au
Irene Au is a female user experience designer based in Palo Alto, California. She graduated from bachelor’s of science degree USC electrical and computer engineering and master’s of science degree from UIUC’s science in industrial engineering and human-computer interaction. Irene is also a person who has a lot of jobs, she is an executive, a yoga…
Manifesto: self-understanding of identity
I am a Taiwanese. I learn this since I was young, and this is how I see myself. When I was still in Taiwan, no one has judged me by saying “I am from Taiwan” or “I am Taiwanese.” However, last year, someone bullied me just because I said “I am Taiwanese.” I feel accurate…
Why almost all the UI on cellphone getting flat
Back in 2011, the year smartphones started to be popular, UI that design by difference is all still in realistic style: Apple’s IOS 4, Samsung’s TouchWiz 4.0, or HTC sense 3.0 were all designed this way. However, in 2013, Apple became the first company that made a lot of changes in its UI design. During…