I know my portfolio site is so terrible, but I just get a headache when I think about to make a new one, because that two words–portforlio site means maybe more than ten hour work! But finally, I could not tolerate anymore! I felt shame when I look at it and call myself a designer.…
Syntagm and Paradigm Restaurant menu is a great example. Appetizer —-> Pasta —-> Meat + Vegetable —-> Dessert —> Coffee Bruscetta — Spaghetti Soup — Lasagna The horizontal order of food from appetizer to coffee is a syntagm. Individual choices within each category (spaghetti vs. lasagna) are paradigms. Semiotics and Structuralism are great for analyzing…
Manovich says “If there is a new rhetoric or aesthetic possibile here, it may have less to do with the ordering of time by a writer or an orator, and more with spatial wandering. The hypertex reader is like Robinson Crusoe, walking across the sand, picking up a navigation journal, a rotten fruit, an instrument…
I am working on coming up with some ideas for the final paper, but am having trouble. I have three overall objectives for this paper: Use concepts we have learned in this class Write a publishable paper Write a paper that is useful to designers (as opposed to just academics) I have done some pre-writing…
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…
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This weekend I helped tar down loose shingles on my roof, fixed my gutters, repainted parts of my house including my garage door and roof-pipes, and installed a new window to meet city regulations. I ended up paying about $100 in labor for two guys to help me out for a several hours. Now just about everything we did…
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This will not be a large post, I am still working out the details…. But I have been thinking about the development of a language of HCI. I realize that it is important to have a controlled vocabulary that we can use to communicate HCI concepts and theories across disciplines. It is also important to…
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…
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…
Interaction Culture 