This is the last edition of Guide to Greener Electronics. Nintendo became the first “not-green” company and the first one who got 0/10. The news entry The list Greenspace rank companies according to their policies and practices on toxic chemicals used in products and take back. When I read this news, the first thing came…
I just aware that this design entered the market in this month and is currently sold out. This is not an innovative idea. Similar concepts like iRex Technologies’s Iliad and Sony PRS-505 has come in before. There is more information about Kindle here. The product makes me think of what Marty said about the website…
I think more about my paper and try to narrow down the topic today. For now, the rough title is: Design mobile phone faceplates: appearance as experience and interaction. In this paper, I would like to focus on how mobile phone faceplates improve user experience. Mobile phone faceplates in Asia are designed by the following…
This is one of the three mobile phones HTC just released. The company plans to have more patterned mobile phones become available in the market in the near future. I have not seen mobile phone like this in America. In Asia, where lots of people are crazy about knowing and buying mobiles that just enter…
For the final paper, we are supposed to have an idea by Tuesday’s (11/6) class. So do we need to submit a formal proposal or just send an email to Jeff to broadly talk about our idea? “……students explicate 1-3 digital interaction experiences using one or more of the strategies discussed during the semester” (This…
David’s post “Balancing values and usability” reminds me of a book I read in this summer. It is written in Chinese, which is called “Creative Economy.” The book introduced ten famous designers in Asia, inclusive of their profiles, works and design philosophies. I would like to discuss more about the “values” of designers based on…
The picture is from website Savage Chickens, by Doug Savage. Please complete the cartoon. Do you have any idea in your mind now? If I tell you it is a Halloween contest: complete this cartoon and you could win Savage Chickens Stuff, will your answer be different? Using to analyze this material, here are some…
I have a question about structuralism. Suppose you and I are part of the code. We understand the relationship between a signifier and a signified. Can we say that we share similar lifeworlds, horizons and assumptions?
I have no idea what prewriting is before this class. I thought I was doing prewriting because I organized my thoughts and listed them as an outline. When thinking of some theories could be used in a paper, I started looking it up rather than put these ideas in an inventory before writing. As an…
I have tried to come up with something from our blog fodder this week. I use “something” instead of the truth, “nothing” , to avoid being beat by a hockey stick, although the “something” is a mess. Activity Theory is object-oriented. People work with a tool to achieve the goal in a social context. There…
Interaction Culture 