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Week 5 Assignment

Hanna McLachlan

Tuesday, Sep 06, 2016 - 04:13:30 pm

@ Hanna UX Design

Reading Response – Chipchase, Hidden in Plain Sight, You are what you carry CH4.

Again Chipchase has encouraged me to think about the ordinary and mundane tasks I perform in everyday life, in a way that I haven’t before.

I was able to relate to many of the points he discussed -I too have the ‘keys, money, phone’ point of reflection before leaving my Read more →

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Assignment 2 Slides

Clara

Saturday, Sep 03, 2016 - 01:08:14 pm

@ Clara

Assignment 2: Navigating Public Transportation (link)

Done by : Clara Wong, Danni, Katie (Ke Tian), Wan Qing

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Assignment Week 3

Xie Xiuyun

Monday, Aug 29, 2016 - 11:58:50 am

@ Xiuyun's

Footway / pavement / sidewalk; british or american english

The sidewalk is indeed an interesting and undervalued subject of interest as the common area has so much potential to be something more than merely a walking space.

The subject of sidewalk reminds me about the historical context of Singapore’s five foot way, an ubiquitous pedestian pathway that is literally five feet Read more →

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Assignment 2: Navigating Public Transportation

Lydia Alexkartadjaja

Monday, Aug 29, 2016 - 11:16:01 am

@ lydialex

Question

Managing how people move through public spaces is a very carefully designed user experience. Make sketches, notes and document with photos to carefully analyze the user experience during this field trip. Make observations on how other people move through public space. What are some unusual things that you notice?

Assignment:  Organize your documentation and notes from the field trip and Read more →

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Experimental Map

Ava P.

Monday, Aug 29, 2016 - 11:09:31 am

@ Pham Nhat Binh

Think of a way in which you could develop an experimental map using images, sounds and stories. Some ideas… What else would we use if we didn’t use maps to find our sense of place? How would you map the sounds you hear every day? How would you map emotions? How would you map the overlooked peoples or places of Read more →

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Assignment 2: Reading Response

Lydia Alexkartadjaja

Monday, Aug 29, 2016 - 11:05:58 am

@ lydialex

Response to reading from 

CH 5 Jan Chipchase, Hidden In Plain Sight: How To Create Extraordinary Products For Tomorrow’s Customers.  (2013)

The best way to get a gist of how people do the things and they do and how they do it is by being with the doers. The result would be much richer than just analysing existing collected data. In this Read more →

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Assignment 1: 2 Objects

Lydia Alexkartadjaja

Monday, Aug 29, 2016 - 11:03:47 am

@ lydialex

Question

Choose two objects that you use every day (you cannot pick mobile phones or laptop/computer) and analyze their design using the principles described in Chapter 1 of The Design of Everyday Things. Imagine describing what the object is and what it’s designed to do to someone who has never seen it before. Is it intuitive or frustrating? Come up with three Read more →

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Assignment 1: Reading Response

Lydia Alexkartadjaja

Monday, Aug 29, 2016 - 10:44:37 am

@ lydialex

Response to reading from CH 1 Donald A. Norman, The Design of Everyday Things  (1988)

The first time I read the text, I frowned. Firstly, I did not use the older type of telephone that much when I was young. I held my mother’s mobile phone already when I was in elementary school. Hence, I had a hard time imagining the example Read more →
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Assignment 1: Maps

Lydia Alexkartadjaja

Monday, Aug 29, 2016 - 10:43:08 am

@ lydialex

Question

Find two maps of a building or place you have visited – one map is badly designed and the other is well designed. Be prepared to explain your examples and bring maps to class.

Think of a time you were lost in a place and write in your journal how and why you got lost. What about the user experience Read more →

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Assignment week 3

Danni Hansen

Sunday, Aug 28, 2016 - 11:55:43 pm

@ DanniH's Site

Part 1: Think of a way in which you could develop an experimental map using images, sounds and stories. Some ideas… What else would we use if we didn’t use maps to find our sense of place? How would you map the sounds you hear every day? How would you map emotions? How would you map the overlooked peoples or places of Read more →

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