Bauhaus put forward three basic points: The new unity of art and technology: The purpose of design is people rather than products; Design must follow natural and objective laws. These viewpoints have played a positive role in the development of industrial design, making modern design gradually move from idealism to realism, which is replacing artistic…
Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid, in full Dame Zaha Hadid, Iraqi-born British architect known for her radical deconstructivist designs. In 2004 she became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.In February 2016, the month preceding her death, she became the first and only woman to be awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute…
The system knows you more than yourself
Vannevar Bush in his “As We May think” mentioned that: “A record if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.” In order to make the record become useful, he raised the “Memex” which is combined with memory and extender. This…
Ada Lovelace & Lillian Gilbreth
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer. She is often regarded as the first to recognize the full potential of computers and one of the first computer programmers. Her father is George Gordon Byron who is regarded as one of the greatest British poets. In order to prevent her from developing her father’s perceived…
Zijie’s Manifesto
In my opinion, the design is not art, design is a service industry related to art. Art is created by artists for themselves and does not need to meet anyone’s needs except the artist himself. Artists make art only for themselves.However, the design is not like this. Designers through design to meet customer needs and…
Error
The video said that the movable type was invented in China around 1045-1058. But actually, the movable type was invented during the Northern Song Dynasty (1041-1048) The video said that Chinese people invented the paper 2000 years ago(179-41BC). But the earliest paper found in China is around 206-8 BC. Cai Lun improved papermaking skills during…
The importance of history for Interaction Design
As an interaction designer, it is very important to know the history of interaction design. On the one hand, learning history can help us understand where are the things that we learn and make come from. On the other hand, the experience from the predecessors will also enlighten us. These will help us find and…
The new approaches to human-computer-interaction due to the Brain-computer interfaces
With the development of science and technology, the methods of human-computer interaction are likely to change in the future. People may no longer interact with computers through their hands, eyes, and other senses. Human beings seem to be able to communicate with machines directly through their own consciousness because of the Brain-computer interface technology. Because…
Alipay
Humans in order to recognize, express, and exchange information with a more convenient method, a series of graphs and symbols with referent meanings were invented which we called Pictographic language. The pictographic language was invented and developed between the 31st century BC and the 2nd century AD. Now, designers in order to reduce the learning…