In Buxton’s book ‘Sketching User Experience’ he talks about the nature of sketches. He says sketches are fast, cheap, plentiful, ambiguous, etc. He also talks about how sketches have their clear vocabulary and distinct gestures. Examples of this vocabulary and gestures would be how lines extend through endpoints and how they are not tight or…
I enjoyed Marty’s presentation and channeling of Jeff this week, sitting in class I thought I “got it” when we were talking about it. I was baffled by the partner exercise part, but saw it’s purpose after it was done. When I sat down to do it, I simply didn’t get much out of the…
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…
If we think about the process of the language to be formed, isn’t it a phenomenological process? It’s just like the doing and undergoing model. We use our own language as a baby, but nobody can understand, then we learn, accept the language of other people which based on social rules, then we could be…
Prewriting Writing is hard. What ends up on the page isn’t like a train of thought. The synthesis is more elaborate and consists many, very different pieces. What is Prewriting? A written form of ideation (process of coming up with ideas) Think of it as a form of sketching Give your left brain a break…
I’m very sorry to inform you but Robert Jordan passed away in the last several days. I have no idea if he completed the last book or not. For those of you who don’t know, the Wheel of Time is a fantasy series of sci/fi books and is an excellent read. The story about this…
After the last Tuesday’s class, I always want edto treat everything that appear in my eyes as a couple of opposite words. That is a dichotomy method to observe this world. For instance, I would like to propose an example .Naked men and women in long long ago like old stone age. There are no…
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Shkiwoora, Gohey (杉浦康平) who is a graphic designer in Japan, studied the schematization of human sense in order to have an insight of the world. In general, the schematization of information system is based on expressing time, number, or space. His schematization, however, pursued some things different beyond the elements. He studied how to map…
I meant to ask this a while ago, after Erik’s lecture… What is the difference between a tool and a material?
During our analysis of fashion magazine ads, I suggested that it is our cognitive abilities to conceptualize and memory that permit us to distinguish a bag from a woman in a photograph. Jeff then firmly stated that a structuralist would disagree because they would argue that it is our linguistic abilities that permit us to give meaning to the…
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