Computer Age

Collected posts for the categories under Computer age.

• Who is Responsible for inventing New Technology?
  by Grace Cao
  April 10, 2024
  From my personal opinion, I do not think all the responsibility should land on any single party to invent new technology, however, this should be a joint effort with each sector contributing at what it is best at. For example, I think the government is best at coming into the play with supporting technology innovations… Read more: Who is Responsible for inventing New Technology?
• Design Systems and Pattern: Empowering tools to Creativity
  by Grace Cao
  April 3, 2024
  Rather than feeling like creativity has been stifled, having some level of framework and guidelines oftentimes enhances and empowers the delivering of designs. In Tidwell’s article, Common Ground, they suggested that through incorporating a good pattern language, the artifact’s usability increases and diversifies in its terms and language that can be understood by other disciplines… Read more: Design Systems and Pattern: Empowering tools to Creativity
• Web Design to the User-Centered Agency
  by Grace Cao
  April 3, 2024
  As the transition to more complex structures and features occurred on the construction of websites, the rising need of expertise in solving the large scale website’s emerging problems that were more complex than the visual design side of things led to disciplines like information architecture, usability engineering and others to be practiced and valued. The… Read more: Web Design to the User-Centered Agency
• Pace Layers and how it relates to extending the lifecycle of Interaction Design Works
  by Grace Cao
  March 27, 2024
  This week’s reading was the first time I have heard about the concept of Pace Layers yet I found this concept pretty easy to understand because even in everyday life I have been able observe the different paces of changes happening to technology, cultural habits, the neighborhood I live in, architectural infrastructure, the nature surrounding… Read more: Pace Layers and how it relates to extending the lifecycle of Interaction Design Works
• Fostering the Future: A Collaborative Approach to Technological Innovation
  by Jiayi (Nicole) Xie
  March 26, 2024
  Various institutions, including governments, companies, and open-source communities, have weaved innovative threads into the tapestry of technological progression, each independently contributing to the rich pattern of progress. The fact that the Department of Defense and the US government provided funding for the internet’s early development highlights the significant role that governments have always had in… Read more: Fostering the Future: A Collaborative Approach to Technological Innovation
• Shaping the Lifecycle of Interaction Design
  by Jiayi (Nicole) Xie
  March 26, 2024
  In the discipline of interface design, it is essential to comprehend a project’s lifespan and evolution in order to develop novel solutions that will last throughout time. One paradigm that Stewart Brand devised is called Pace Layers, and it can offer important insights into this process. Although the Pace Layers paradigm was first developed for… Read more: Shaping the Lifecycle of Interaction Design
• Graphic User Interface’s evolution from its initial release
  by Grace Cao
  March 11, 2024
  Since the early days of Macintosh/Windows, the GUI has changed in its visual appearance, user interaction, connectivity, and efficiency. The fundamental core of its design and most controls stayed the same and with the improvement of technologies today. When it was first developed into a physical product by XEROX PARC, the GUI already had structural… Read more: Graphic User Interface’s evolution from its initial release