Author: Zijie Zhou

Julian Francis Abele

Julian Francis Abele is a famous African American architect. He is also the chief designer of Horace Trumbauer’s office. He has contributed to the design of more than 400 buildings in his life, but the Duke University Chapel is the only building that he claimed authorship. Julian Abele was born in Philadelphia in 1881. His…

The future of multimodal interaction

Multimodal interaction, This word has actually existed in the field of human-computer interaction for decades of years. It refers to one thing that can be done through multiple interactive methods. Many small-scale interactions have actually reached multi-modality, such as typing. You can type on a physical keyboard, you can type on a touch screen keyboard,…

Ethics and Technology

Human beings have never delivered everything we own to a certain creation just like what we do today. Science and technology have already set standards for our behavior and the basis for judgment. The thinking mode of human society has been irreversibly shaped by science and technology. In the Feed, the Author shows the result…

IA & IxD

Richard Saul Wurman used five words to explain the tools for information architecture in the video “The Five Types of Organizing Information” which are Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, and Hierarchy. These five words he mentioned in the short video are really easy for me to understand. Information architecture focused on solving the basic problems of…

Norma Merrick Sklarek

As the first African-American woman to hold the architect license in New York and the first woman to earn a license in California, Norma Merrick Sklarek was also the first African-American woman who was selected as a member of the American Institute of Architects. Norma Merrick Sklarek was born on April 15, 1926, in Harlem,…

Shigeru Ban

Shigeru Ban is a Japanese architect. He is known for his innovative work with paper, particularly recycled cardboard tubes used to quickly and efficiently house disaster victims. He was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1957. Ban’s early life was surrounded by carpentry. His mother, a fashion designer, regularly enlarged the house to accommodate her seamstresses;…

Virtual Community

With the development of technology, 4g even 5g appeared and make the data upload speed much faster than before, which has pushed the development of Live broadcast and short video platforms. In this way, the ability to live-stream made people can get feedback at the same time and in a more intuitive way. So all…

Arata Isozaki

Isozaki is a Japanese postmodernist architect, urban designer, and theorist. He is known as a thinker in the Japanese architecture area. Isozaki was born in Oita on the island of Kyushu. At the age of 14, he witnessed the tragedy of Hiroshima after the atomic bombing. After the defeat, Japan was short of sources, and…

Alexander’s Design Patterns

Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language described a practical architectural system in a form that a theoretical mathematician or computer scientist might call a generative grammar. It provides 253 patterns describing towns, neighborhoods, houses, gardens, rooms, and western structures. In Slack, there are large groups that contain all the IxD students and professors, also there are…

Mid-century designers

Most of the mid-century designers did a variety of things in different design areas. Their experiences made a huge contribution and built the foundations to the later design area such as interaction design. Ray Eames and her husband Charles Eames’ skills have covered the field of architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing, and photographic arts….

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