Lola Oyelayo-Pearson is a black woman from the UK who has been working in digital systems for 17 years as a UX and product specialist. She started as a business analyst, before focusing energy into research, design, and development. After gaining her Bachelors of Engineering in Interactive Design Systems from the University of Birmingham, she…
AR Tech in Glasses or Contacts is the Future
When we walk outside, we can see that our world is surrounded in technology. When we walk into a cafe, you see people left to right on their laptops and phones. Well what if we could interact with our surroundings to complete tasks and daily routines? AR technology could have a major spark in the…
Bauhaus and Interaction Design
I believe that the Bauhaus philosophy is important for current interaction designers. They preached the idea of objects created by technology and technology itself, or Modernism. As Interaction Designers, we depend on technology to create products. Additionally, the idea of affordances comes from the idea of Mies van der Rohe that form follows function. For…
The Future of Surgical Procedures
Surgeries have been a staple in the field of medicine which date back as early as 3000 BC where a procedure known as trephining (cutting small holes in the skull) were evident. Fast forward to the 18th century, we can see historical evidence of surgical procedures conducted from tooth extractions to treating battlefield wounds. Now…
Errors Found in The History of Books video
After fact-checking a couple of the statements made in TEDed’s video, The History of Books, I found a couple of errors. For example, the video said that Egyptian papyrus paper dated back to 4000 BCE, but according to Ancient History Encyclopedia, the production of papyrus paper went all the way back to 6000 BCE. The…
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,…
Sharing Economy in the Future
Sketchnote I don’t take the future as a very distant thing, but I believe that the sharing economy will be very developed. I am thinking about shared parking spaces in the future. According to my research, due to the rapid development of the city，It is difficult to find a parking space in the city, and…
Final – future tech
With the continuous development of technology, Modality Interactivity is compelling for users. This can ensure that users have a more positive attitude towards website information when browsing interactive pages. The future development of interactive design is the persuasive power and ability obtained by allowing users to understand website information at a deeper level. Through Goal-driven…
SciFi &Ethics
After watching the Black Mirror, there are some ethical issues in the technology of this movie. Because of the rating function, people are trying to be a nice person to attract people’s attention. The problem is the technology is forcing the people to get a good score rather than represent their real feeling and opinion….
The Future of Smartphone Gaming
With the rise in popularity of portable gaming consoles, such as the Nintendo Switch and Switch Lite; cloud gaming, which allows users to play their stationary console and pc games, or just stream games to the cloud, like Google Stadia, Xbox Game Pass, Project xCloud, Amazon Luna Cloud, etc., onto their mobile device. We have…
We don’t need to touch the screen in the future
Google’s Motion Sense technology has been five years in the making. Thanks to Soli, a miniature motion-sensing radar that detects when the user is nearby and can recognize certain gestures, owners of the Pixel 4 can skip songs, snooze alarms, and silence phone calls with a simple wave of the hand. Google promises that these…
Zuzana Licko
Zuzana Licko was born in 1961 in Bratislava, Czechoslovakia. Licko’s father was a biomathematician and at the University of California, San Francisco. Through his job, she became involved with computers during the summer months, helping him with data processing work. The first font she created was designed in the Greek alphabet for her father. Czechoslovakia…
We Need the “Boundary”
The rapid development of VR and AR technology is undoubtedly surprising, but it is worrying at the same time. Many sci-fi movies have warned people of the disadvantages caused by technology development, and even show people the worst consequences. Many talented interaction designers and technologists have quite creative new ideas, but they can’t guarantee that…
The society of virtual screens is coming
In today’s science and technology society, there are already some signs to predict that future users will no longer be confined to touch screens. Although voice control and gesture control have not been completely developed, it is a good start. I think the future of mankind will be filled with virtual technology. Such as virtual…
Artificial Intelligence and Design future
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the talk of our society these days. Artificial intelligence has become common around us, but it has begun to replace people in many other areas, including relatively low-skilled driving and moving goods from warehouses. People are taking artificial intelligence naturally in their daily lives. The day is not long before the…
Maureen Macharia – Design to Empower the Future of Africa
Maureen Macharia is an accomplished Product Designer, entrepreneur, and community builder who is proficient at the intersection of design thinking, technology, and entrepreneurship. In her work, Macharia combines her analytical skill and human-centered approach to solve problems that identify needs and opportunities for company growth. Macharia develops practical and contextually prominent products or solutions for…
Dong Nguyen: father of Flappy Bird
Ha Dong Nguyen is a 35-year-old video game artist and game developer from Vietnam. He graduated as an engineer in Information Technology. Hanoi University of Technology is a prestigious school that taught many Vietnamese talented engineers. However, Nguyen never had a vision as a world-famous game programmer when he grew up in Van Phuc, a…
Hover Cars!
I did my futures wheel on Hover Cars. I am personally excited about the idea of a hyper-loop and since that future isn’t too far off, I wanted to go further into the future about travel. Part of my interpretations of the future with hover cars came from the Back to the Future movie, when…
Looking Into the Bigger Picture
In the last couple of days, my macOS got updated from “Catalina” (I was super excited about the dark mode when it first came out ) to “Big Sur,” a brand new desktop operating system for macOS. When my laptop finished the update, the new look sort of nudged me to clean up and reorganize…