Context The North Carolina Museum of History is the guardian of the state’s history, heritage and material culture within local, regional, national and international contexts. Their mission is to “collect and preserve artifacts and other historical materials relating to the...

                  Elbert Hubbard once said that “he who influences the thoughts of his times influences the times that follow.” This is especially true for designers in the 21st century. With design thinking spreading to multifarious...

Today, users are less concerned with the information processing inside devices and more concerned with how a device enables him/her to satisfy personal wants and needs. Increased interest in serving user wants and needs sparked user-centered design. New technology and materials enable...

Designer John Maeda talks about his path from a Seattle Tofu factory to his design career and finally to RISD. Maeda, a tireless experimenter and witty observer, explores the crucial moment when design met computers. It starts out from the non-computer users versus computer users, acceptance...

CONTEXT The North Carolina Museum of History is the guardian of the state’s history, heritage and material culture within local, regional, national and international contexts. Their mission is to “collect and preserve artifacts and other historical materials relating to the history and...

The Obama campaign would be the first time that Branding and Design played a pivotal role in a presidential bid. Scott Thomas, the design director, shares the key ideas that allowed them to deliver a consistent and clear branding through both the web and print. It’s interesting that they...

In network technology and especially smart technology, the benefit of these devices is that they are cognitive and can think on their own. However, these cognitive smart devices are great for expected benefits but have lots of unexpected consequences and dangers due to the...

Context Propose designed conditions that would make 4-6 year olds enjoy brushing their teeth. Project The proposed design strategy is to employ the use of a tamagotchi-toothbrush acts to teach proper brushing techniques in areas such as length of brushing, number of times to brush in a day and...

Event: Veteran’s Day Story telling community building, storytelling, visitors connection to experts, museum connection to k-12 NCMH vision is … To be the guardian of North Carolina’s history, heritage and material culture within local, regional, national and international contexts, so...

An interesting talk where he shares certain perspective about the sketching mindset and holistic experience design. He shares similar ideas with Mike Kuniavsky where he explains that it’s now impossible to think of design products or screenshots but user experience. Designing for...

The three overarching themes: self (or user) identity, influencing user behavior, and managing information. Jean puts a special mark on the design of platforms, which, through the influence on people’s decision-making process, form the views and the structure of the whole society....

Lecture by Bill Moggridge (designer of the first laptop computer) at the 2007 Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar. The examples come mainly from his book, Designing Interactions. The lecture is about an hour long and it’s followed by Q&A. It deals with all three...

Elbert Hubbard once said that ‘he who influences the thoughts of his times influences the times that follow.’ This is especially true for designers in the 21st century. With the impact of design thinking spreading to multifarious arenas such as business, education and engineering,...

Ji Lee from Google sharing about his frustration with his advertising experience where he could not get the pure and honest message that he wanted. He proceeded to use a crowdsourcing approach for his design process where he pasted 30,000 blank speech bubble stickers onto advertisements and...

A very good example of Kuniavsky’s Information as a material where the information processing is hidden within the smart device. In this case, it’s a concept car for BMW. Smart materials is also entering the realm of car design which has been stagnant for many years. The BMW Gina...

Based on the diagram we worked on as a group in class, I added to and tried to clarify the differences and similarities between our readings. As I was working on this, it was my tendency to separate each reading but Nadya and Sean were both from the network technologies. I had to keep...

Our group discussion seemed pretty accurate on getting the main themes out of the different readings. Reading crowdsourcing and information cascades, i wonder whether that judgement was biased due to the group discussion last Friday since these readings deal with bias and group thinking....

Venn Diagram based main ideas and common ground we as group were able to come up with during our time in class. We imagined that once we all had a chance to read each other essays and readings, we would individually build on and detail this...