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…
Before I read the writings about the reflection of designer and design value from David and Yanning in this blog, I got the chance to read the paper, Reflective design, that Prof, Lim recommended me. I was glad that I could be addicted myself in rethinking of the kinds of problems with them. It was…
Read more On ambiguity; Vagueness , doubt , uncertainty , obscurity , equivocation , dubiousness
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…
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…
Eight friends ate and played together in the evening on Friday after Pumpkin Carving. All the chatting remains on the same theme: the meaning. The conversation began from Dalai Lama. I found that I almost know nothing about him except that he is a Chinese, got a Noble peace prize and there are several Tibetan…
By the way, my pre-writing experience is awful. I feel I am in a theoretic fog: Ambiguous, Confused, Unclear, Obscure, Vague, Debiuos, Enigmatic, Indefinite, Inconclusive, Indeterminate fog. Please, Rescue me from this fog!
? Radical or progressive way in design innovation I was thinking of the style of interface/interactions when I saw two devices at http://www.monsterdesign.co.kr/ I just compare the two devices in conceptual view of interface/interaction design; innovative or progressive, or futuristic or current suggestion. The first device is a conceptual MP3 player, Iriver. The second…
I was thinking of the style of interface/interactions when I saw two devices at http://www.monsterdesign.co.kr/ I just compare the two devices in conceptual view of interface/interaction design; innovative or progressive, or futuristic or current suggestion. The first device is a conceptual MP3 player, Iriver. The second one is 5mega HSDPA phone K850i, Sony Erricson.…
I am naturally a pretty skeptical person and when I was introduced to pre-writing I was a bit unimpressed. I felt that the ideas of pre-writing were obvious and that I have been doing them for years. I was wrong. I started my pre-writing exercise and realized half way through that I suck at pre-writing.…
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