Lisette Titre-Montgomery is an art director in the Gaming Industry with over 17 years of experience designing games and leading creative teams. She has contributed to 13 titles, including Tiger Woods Golf, The Simpsons, Dante’s Inferno, Dance Central 3, SIMS 4. As a Black woman in a predominantly White, male profession, she certainly understands the…
Cipe Pineles
(June 23, 1908 – January 3, 1991) Cipe Pineles was a pioneer in the world of graphic design, breaking several glass ceilings as a woman in a male-dominated profession. But her long career working as an editorial designer established her as an extraordinary talent who forever changed that world through her innovations, especially for magazines….
How Wikipedia Slightly Change Our Life
The history of Wikipedia begins with Ward Cunningham, who created a new website model in 1994; he named it “Wiki”. Wikis are websites that allow users to create and edit information on the site in real-time. Because we live in a sharable big-data / information expo generation, The Wikis revolutionizes how people collaborate and share…
Irene Au
Irene Au can be considered one of the pioneers in developing User Experience (UX) design into a distinct field of study and professional career choice. While studying for her master’s degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Illinois, Champagne-Urbana, she actually created her own program within Industrial Engineering called, “Human-Computer Interaction.” She was immediately…
Wisdom Behind The Oregon Trail
When playing the game “Oregon Trail” I was having a hard time deciding which role I wanted to play, so I picked the “find out the difference” option and read about the role descriptions. From that time on, I was dragging into the character that I picked. I was thinking in that position, actually calculating…
Root Words In Computer UI Design
We can see shadows from the Xerox Star and the Machintosh in today’s computer UI design. Many features are sharing the same principle and are continually evolving. Especially on Xerox Star – Apple (1982) compares to today’s Apple computers (2020), We can see that the folder’s name is now showing under the icon, not directly…
People’s needs never change
In Cristopher Alexandra’s “A Pattern Language,” I found many connections between the social media we are using nowadays.I can see many patterns being applied to little features that blend into our everyday life. Especially #36 “degrees of publicness” and #14 “Identifiable Neighborhood”. In pattern #36, “degrees of publicness,” Alexandra talks about People are different: “the…
Let The Brain Talk
I was thinking maybe in the future, the PDM connection is not only between humans but also with animals (or even plants). We can then feel everything on this planet, and maybe we will have different demand compare to today.
A Mindful Game Developer – Yutaka Takazaki
Many people might not heard about “Yutaka Takazaki” but most people would recognize The mobile game “Travel Frog.” Yutaka Takazaki is the project manager of the game company “Hit-Point” which is the developer of “Travel Frog”. There is very little information about him on the internet because Hit-Point focuses more on the team’s integrity. Once…
Piece of Thoughts For Future Tech
I always get impressive when seeing new things; I admire people who can think big and bring their thoughts to reality. After watching the “History of IBM,” I feel they are successful for a reason. They know where the problem is; they know who their target is; They know the generation’s needs. Therefore they can…
My Future Buddy
I like when J.C.R. Licklider talks about the necessity of having the Man-Computer Symbiosis: “It is often said that programming for a computing machine forces one to think clearly, that it disciplines the thought process. If the user can think his problem through in advance, symbiotic association with a computing machine is not necessary.” It…
I Found My Way
The designers in the Mid-Century laid the foundation and standards for our design today. Many of their concept and ideas have been used by us today. My favorites are Sutnar and Dreyfuss. One of them is free and bold; the other is neat and delicate. They are two extremes that portray the high standards of…
Our Design Legacies
The techniques used by the Eames, Gerstner, and Sutnar seem to be in different fields, but they have a lot in common. For example, the Eames couple will do a lot of brainstorming before the actual designing, they will draw connections between each element they have listed out. I find it just like the “task…
The Graphic Design Originator – Muriel Cooper
Muriel Cooper was a designer, researcher, and educator. Born in 1925 in Brookline, Boston, Massachusetts, and passed away in 1994, aged 68. She is best known for her accomplishment from being a graphic designer. Cooper received her BA from Ohio State University and her BS in education, also a BFA in design from MassArt. She…
We Are Deciding Our Future
Vannevar Bush’s idea “The Memex” used to be a new, complicated, and unreliable way of memorization for people in the 1930’s, but time turned it into a memory system on which modern people rely on. We changed complexity and reliability from synonyms to antonyms. Google has become the most popular search engine because they have…
Be Spiritual!
My manifesto would be “be spiritual!” With the continuous development of the material world, most human beings now live by the material. They feel that the things they hold in their hands are what truly belongs to them. But people forget the importance of the spiritual world. We forgot to listen to the truest voice…
Message from the ancient knowledge
I think movable type printing and the invention of the Renaissance are very important to interaction designers because the things they invented in the time they existed are impossible for them to achieve. However, in the distant future, almost all of their inventions have been realized and have a major impact on our lives. For…
The milestone of voice used in games
Playing games is an almost indispensable thing in modern life. Many people can get a sense of accomplishment in the game world that they can’t get in reality because everything is virtual. Some voice interactive systems appear to be in a dilemma. The advantage is that you can communicate with people on the same team…
Our connection to the old knowledge!
After watching the “Early-Writing Iconographic” video, the icon that I wanted to compare jumped into my mind. it is the Chinese version of Facebook called “Weibo”. The logo is shaped like a camera-control monitor with an eye in the middle and on its head it got a little sign which represented for the signal.Because of…
2 little parts
In the video”The History of Books” when it introduced the Egyptian paper making, I noticed that the use of papyrus was not from 4000 BC, it is 1000 years early. From the oxford reference: “As a writing material, papyrus was in use in Egypt from at least 3000 BCE”Also when talking about the inventor of…