Sep 19
Phone Charging Mailbox One of the first interfaces that caught my eye was in the radio shake area. They reused a mailroom mailbox set and turned it into a cell phone charging area. People can plug their phone in, lock the door, and leave without worrying about their phone. People always have problems with their …
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Sep 19
I believe the main point made by Donal Norman in this passage dealt with “Intuitiveness”. He breaks open the notion of products and interfaces being “Intuitive” and puts it in the context of everyday use of objects. A very important remark made in the passage which was kind of an undertone, was the priority of …
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Sep 19
Singing Car This was a project that immediately grabbed my attention and I just had to put it on here. It is taking the traditional interface of an object we use everyday and putting a spin on it, changing its purpose. I thought it was a good example of how we can start thinking about …
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Sep 19
Vertical Theory Another project I was not surprisingly intrigued by was vertical farming. Coming from a landscape architecture background, vertical farming was an idea that would constantly pop up time and time again. There will come a point in time where this will be absolutely necessary – with the growing human population food is becoming …
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Sep 19
Handy Chair I found these to be interesting interfaces because the purpose is to create safe, functional, low-cost vehicles to promote wheelchair user dependence. There was a sign that said something like, “we will all end up in a wheelchair someday,” which I do not necessarily agree with but the fact is many people do. …
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Sep 19
This idea has be bubbling in my head for sometime now. I gave myself a two hour time constraint, sadly I did not finish the video due to renderings :-C BUT I think i’m off to a good start. In this video I’m exploring more of sex and technology. What it means to be a …
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Sep 19
This is a fish lamp-chimney. And this is an accident. At first, I did not think this project can be a lamp-chimney. I tried to make a fish face hat for taking photos. Still pretend to be a fish( Waring the fish face hat) in crowd. What is the difference between you and others? You …
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Sep 19
I really enjoyed reading this. As I’ve always been in search of what does it mean to design something and what’s the real difference between good vs bad design. It was wonderful to read his assessment on how doors and switches are actually badly designed at times. Because in his observation, when there needs to …
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Sep 19
recording1 Day 6: Sound I continued with my theme of mapping, and since my day mostly consisted of maker faire I decided to capture the sounds that I heard there as my mapping project for this day. This is something unconventional for me since I have never really played around with sound before, and it …
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Sep 19
When I was at Maker Faire I found these awesome little speakers in one of their trash picking areas. I attached them to an old pair of headphones so I can use the AUX to hook them up to my computer.The body is made from an empty trader joe’s coffee can. My constraint was to …
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