2017_S2 User Experience in Design

After the presentation, we have taken the feedback in to consideration and made some possible improvement.

Ideas Improvements:

– Changes according to the distance of the people to the sensor, no longer about how many people within the installation

– Can also play with colour of light such as cool colour to prevent misleading ideas Read more →

Responding to the reading, find 2 examples of a product/project that you think are good examples of thoughtfully designed user experience. Be prepared to support your choices.

Core concept:  interaction design, design process, design situation and digital artifact.

The first example would be the emergence of The Web App. I believe most of us are familiar with the term App , or Application, Read more →

In this reading of “Designing for the Digital Age – Goal-oriented Product and service Design” by Kim Goodwin, it gives a clearer view on basically how to design.

Goodwin gave an accurate definition for the word – Design – is the craft of visualizing concrete solutions that serve human needs and goals within certain constraints.

Serving human needs and goals will confuse Read more →

This reading was quite insightful for me. As time passes and technology develops, we can all agree that we will continue to develop products that uses technology for a very long time. In this chapter, Lowgren discusses what good and bad design is, and what designers should go through to develop a good thinking process and design.

In a way, this Read more →

In this reading the author define the definition of design was to serve human needs and goals. I really like what he had mention:

design is the craft of visualizing concrete solutions that serve human needs and goals within certain constraints.

While designer is not about expressing their point of view but understanding the problem and giving a concrete solution that meet Read more →

The reading talked about how designers are restricted by the qualities of the materials, whether in form of physical or digital forms. It is good to have detailed knowledge about the material so that designers can work well with them. Working with a combination of two materials can be a great challenge especially. However, designers should also open their minds Read more →

blue group ilight presentation, 16 October 2017:

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NK9zqiYtwWGx_79ONWIjqbE2QSWSHVtFwEV6A5bNF8s/edit?usp=sharing

Day 1 (Friday) :

Like everybody else in this digital age, I would use my phone every single day without fail, it has basically become part of my life.

In the morning, before I am awake, my phone would have already woken me up  put it to snooze. After which I would proceed to check my messages to see if there are Read more →