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…
We can divide the issues discussed in this class into three broad categories: concrete, particular designs; the underlying design concepts, insights, principles, and strategies that they rely on; and the deeper philosophical implications beneath them. Here’s one of my patentable scientific diagrams: At the top are actual, concrete designs: “dialing from favorites list on this…
From 1995 starting from selling books online, Amazon has broaden its markets from just books to digital comsumption forty big categories almost cover all we need in daily life even gourmet food, paper towel.(From a-z). No matter what they sell on their website, I am not like the interface of Amazon website. But Amazon recently has remodeled its website…
The Lacey article “Film Language” presents the film analysis term mise en scene as “what can be seen in the picture” and consisting of production design (sets, props, and costumes), colour, lighting, actors’ performance, diegetic sound, and framing. I want address a few of these with examples. The first piece of mise en scene I…
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 landscape as well as the city are both highly structured, and our existence is furnished with many different kinds of devices and technological systems. These are what instruct people in contemporary societies ‘how to live.’” -De Vries There is a wealth of design and social science literature that suggests that the artifacts we use…
Recently, in lecture, in another class, one of my professors (a very cool and intelligent one IMHO) was venting a little steam about how people commonly over- and mis-use the term “experiment” to describe what he refers to as “experiences”. Experiments, as he described them, take place in a completely controlled environment, in which there…
These days, one of the important issues among my realizations is that it is so hard to design a certain solution for user without having to understand their contextual stories. (I did not realize the fact when I was conducting user study in participatory observation method two years ago. I suddenly realize this fact now)…
Interaction Culture 