Yeah for no more black backgrounds
Yes it looked very edgy and cool, but my eyes thank the person that was kind enough to switch it us to a light background. Real blog post coming tomorrow.
Note: Be Sure to Publish, Not Just Save Posts
When you are finished with your post, be sure to click the Publish button, not just the Save button. If you click the Save button, your work will be saved only as a draft and won’t be visible to anyone but you and admins. Also, don’t forget to assign categories (keywords) at the right side…
Languages of Interaction Design
I was particularly drawn to two ideas in the piece by Gillian Smith. (i) Computation is a design material (of interaction design). (ii) Interaction design is still drawing on the language of previous creative modes, and has not yet fully developed an independent language of interaction true to the medium of computation, networks, and telecommunications.…
Materiality and Qualities (A Prelude to Next Week)
In both major readings for next week’s class, the concept of “materiality” looms large. In Lowgren & Stolterman, the first several pages talk about materiality–for instance, the notion that a carpenter knows that wood (his material) has special characteristics or “qualities”: wood can be cut into useful pieces (i.e., it can be shaped) but it…
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Montage
So the entire time we were discussing Montages in class, I had this little voice in the back of my head singing the song from “Team America,” which, surprisingly, is all about montages. I briefly considered posting a youtube video of the song but A: I couldn’t find it, and B: during my 10 minute…
Design in Second Life!
If anyone in this class is interested in playing around with Second Life’s building and scripting tools, or if you know what you are doing and need a sandbox, I have some virtual property on which you can do so. If interested, contact Parker Pennell in Second Life (that’s one of my avatars), and she…
Hi guys
It’s just testing if my entry does work.
Eliminating/Redesigning the Cubicle
Gilliam Smith talks about the importance of IT systems to support social aspects of work AND leisure and that this is necessary for the well-being and the efficiency of the user. I know that Jeff has emphasized this throughout all of the classes I have taken with him, which has remained something I am very…
Key Quote from Readings
G. Smith concludes her Forward to Designing Interactions by saying that interaction design as a field has solved one set of problems, and it now needs to move onto a new set. However, after twenty years of drawing on existing expressive languages [e.g., film, typography, icons], we now need to develop an independent language of…
Welcome to Interaction Culture
We will use this blog to explore some concepts and raw, but as yet undeveloped, cool ideas. Be nice!
Interaction Culture 