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…
Mobile Phone line for blind
Last night when I went to bed and closed all the lights, I found that I forgot to charge my phone. In the dark room, I touched around just like blind people. After I found my Mobile phone line. I was trying to find the hole on the phone and put the data line into…
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,…
The Development of Microsoft PowerPoint
Microsoft PowerPoint is a presentation program. It was released on April 20, 1987. The first version of PowerPoint only works for Macintosh Operating system based computers, which was created by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin from the company called Forethought.After Forethought hired Robert Gaskins as the vice president of product development in 1984, Gaskins chose…
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…
What makes The Oregon Trail popular
“The Oregon Trail” was born in 1971 and was officially completed in 1974. It is one of the most successful games in American history, with more than 65 million copies sold. And it is an educational function game developed by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC). “Oregon Trail” is designed to help students understand the…
User Interface changes, from Xerox Star&Macintosh to now
Xerox Star was the first commercial personal computer introduced by Xerox Corporation in 1982. The technologies Xerox Star used that have since become the standard for personal computers now we used. And these original functions from Xerox Star fundamentally laid the foundation for the future development of the GUI. A window-based GUI, icons, folders, mouse,…
The Visible Language Workshop & Alexander’s Patterns
In the Information Landscapes – from a demo reel from The Visible Language Workshop, I mentioned that all information, diagrams, and texts are displayed outside. But they are divided into several parts and classified based on their attributes, just like what Alexander mentioned in the Small Work Groups: “When more than a half dozen people…
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…
The importance of the “Man-Computer Symbiosis”
Under the impetus bring by the pioneers such as JCR Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Vannevar Bush computers changed from no user interface to has the graphic user interface. J. C. R. Licklider expressed his idea about the relationship between the human and computer and foreshadowed interactive computing in the “Man-Computer Symbiosis”. He realized that computers will…
Grow your company with good design – Irene Au
Irene Au is an operating partner at Khosla Ventures and was the former head of design and user experience teams at Google, Yahoo, Netscape, and Udacity. What she does in her job is to work with portfolio companies and make their design and user experience great. In her role, Irene is more like a leader…
From “The Mother of All Demos” to interaction design
Douglas Engelbart presented a landmark computer demonstration called “The Mother of All Demos” on December 9, 1968. He introduced a complete computer system that includes both hardware and software in this demo. A lot of fundamental elements for a computer can be found in this demo such as windows, computer mouse, word processing, hypertext, and…
As a future interaction designer
Interaction design is a relatively young design area compared to other design majors. At the same time, with the rapid development of technology, it is difficult to predict what interactive design will look like in the future. Maybe no one even knows whether the website will exist in 10 years or it will be replaced…
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….