Melissa is a famous brand in Brazil. Selling shoes, Melissa’s main customer group is girls. The following is one of recent advertisements. picture from: http://www.melissa.com.br/ The ad caught my eyes because I love Disney animations. Yeah, once upon a time, there is……That it is. I cannot help paying attention to these ads because they…
Christian Briggs and I were recently discussing the role of feedback (i.e. focus groups, formative and summative evaluations, etc.) in the design process – specifically how it can be a real double-edged sword when you’re developing an original idea. While there’s undeniable value in having your work evaluated from a fresh perspective, there’s also the…
Last week Erik bring us to the issues about Interactive designer and the relationship of material, tools, and designer as a three requirement of digital artifact. I always think about the designer as the most energetic component in process of design, designer has to know the material and tools well-include knowing drawbacks, merit. Designer need…
So Erik presented his notion that interaction design works with a ‘material without qualities’. By this he means that digital artifacts can take on so many different forms–and the forms possible are constantly shifting due to technological advances–that is very hard to pin down a set list of qualities to describe the medium, as say…
As Tyler Pace elaborates, mention of a “material without qualities” by Eric Stolterman stirred much curiousity about its existence. The authors of Thoughtful Interaction Design mention the material without qualities because interaction design possesses few qualities as a material. There is nothing that we can perceive as a material without qualities because those qualities are what permit us to recognize it as a material. There are so many perceivable…
Inspired by Erik Stolterman’s guest lecture, many bloggers this week have discussed that interaction design concerns itself with the “material without qualities.” As mentioned in lecture, all designers work with materials and the qualities of those materials have a profound effect on the product. Many have commented on the growing struggle within the field to…
While reading through Barnard, I couldn’t help continuously going back to the idea of ‘understanding’ and how it relates to the idea of ‘material without qualities’. Understanding, from my interpretation of the assigned Barnard’s chapters, seems to contain both aspects of meaning and intention. What I interpreted the chapter to be saying is that to…
I took a class in the school of education’s IST department over the summer and did a short collection assignment. We had to choose a set of instructional/informational graphics from our lived environment. I took my road trip from Indiana to California when I moved Aaron to San Francisco as the perfect opportunity to work…
Marty cited the well-known quote from Marshall McLuhan: “The Medium is the message.” Although the expression elicited lots of debates and some scholars even raised a different idea, “the message is the medium”, his thinking still makes sense to me in some degree. I believe that the characters of different medium would influence how people…
I’d like to go back to the subject of Erik’s example about material vs. tool vs. designer with the tool being a hammer, wood the material, and the carpenter the specific “designer.” Though it seems clear, remember we reached a point where the line begins to blur between material and tool; for example, a hammer…
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