Something in the reading got me to thinking about the old “form versus function” discourse, specifically in the context of digital design. As you may already know, all designed things have both a form and function component. The “form” of a thing can generally be described as how it looks or is shaped, while its…
Liveblog for the 9-4-2007 lecture. No promises that I’ll come back and clean this up, but please comment and continue with the lecture discussions! Interaction design concerns itself with “the material without qualities.”For all design disciplines, the notion of design material is critical. In many cases, we describe design professions in regards to the materials…
I quite agree with what David has the mentioned about Technology adoption model. It reminds me of what I have learned in high school. Rooted from Marxism’s dialectical materialism theory, Chairman Mao pointed out in the Red Army begin the famous 25,000 kilometers the Long March, that the development of revolution is an combination processs…
It is all about the old question:”what is design?” Because it is across disciplines and cultures, nobody can really give a single definition about it, no matter how many bullet items were added into the definition. When we add more, we find more which needed to be added and revised. Just because its complexity, it…
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I was struck quite forcibly by G. Smith when she said that the fifth imperative was to design for sociability. She follows this up by saying, “When IT systems fail to support the social aspect of work and leisure, when they dehumanize, and de-civilize our relationship with each, they impoverish the rich social web in…
As Gillian Smith points out, Interaction Design has drawn heavily on the ‘existing expressive languages’ of non-digital mediums. She breaks these traditional languages down into 4 ‘dimensions’: 1 – words and literature, 2 – painting, graphic design, iconography, 3 – product design, 4 – film and TV. I agree that much of interactive design to…
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As a caveat to my post, let me state that I haven’t studied the HCI literature in 6 years. I’ve been out in the ‘real world’ where I had great expectations of utilizing research, data and other such academic treasures to shape my everyday works…. alas, I had time lines, lack of resources and small…
When Gillain Smith discussed Interaction Design, she mentioned the phenomenon that function and usability is not the only thing designer should consider nowadays. People view digital artifacts as a way to sociability. Here are some parts of her words. “A computer begin to shape everyday life, we’re interested not only in what this technology can…
? No not that Fifth Dimension – the Fifth Dimension of the Language of Interaction Design. (if you’re too young to get the joke, please visit their Wikipedia page immediately) So Gillian Smith states that we’ve mastered the 4 dimensions of previous creative modes: 1D = words 2D = painting 3D = sculpture 4D =…
Jeff asked Clearly, understanding the digital interface as a “material” with “qualities” is going to be very important in our ability to design a language of interaction design. What are some of the material qualities of the digital interfaces you use? This question got me thinking, and my initial comment to Jeff’s post somehow turned…
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