Manifestos!

Read the Manifesto Mania and then two or more of the Manifestos from history.

Compose your own Design Manifesto. What do you intend to do to make the world a better place?

Post your Manifesto to the class blog with at lease one paragraph describing your philosophy behind your manifesto. Make sure to select the category Manifesto.

• Listen! Listen! Can’t you hear them?
  by Yitong Wang
  We seek for a positive ethical role  In the age of big data, we often hear our friends and family members talking about how they…
• IXD Manifesto!
  by Betty Deng
  Communication over invention Designers are often passionate about creation, conception, and invention. But as an interaction designer, the more important skills are communication and understanding….
• Hermione’s Manifesto: Let’s design something meaningful!
  by Hermione Hu
  Three years ago, after 1 year of my Industrial Design program, I made a decision that changes my life, adding interaction design as my second…
• On Work
  by Elaine Choi
  Overcome the fear or succumb to the terror. Panic fuels and stagnantation is intolerable. The ignored are impatient, trust yor own eyes. Bite the hand…
• Manifesto!
  by DeeDee Kwon
  What’s interesting about interaction design is that the design itself is very simple. It doesn’t contain too many stories. The ultimate goal of design is…
• Manifesto!
  by Ted Huang
  Listen! Listen! and listen! To be a good listener. When I say “be a good listener”, it does not just mean sitting next to our…
• Manifesto of the Design Ethics – Amanda Liu
  by Amanda Liu
  We design artifacts that shape human behaviors in a positive way. We never ignore the minority to satisfy the majority. We make sure our designs…
• Ethics in Social Media
  by Evan Tang
  For the past year, I’ve been contemplating my future role and job as a designer in this field of work. No matter what job I…
• Is Ethical Design a Thing?
  by Lylyna Heng
  After attending August de los Reyes: The Power of Inclusive Design, it brings back these two words to me: Ethical Design. Although, universal and inclusive…
• Design Manifesto
  by Ruth Bhavsar
  Go in with good intentions. Do not design to exploit peoples’ wallets. Find the real problems someone faces instead of jumping to the palliative solution….
• Go Beyond Satisfaction
  by Mengyao Xiu
  As I grow up, I learn that each person will be influenced by their surrounding circumstances and environments. Interestingly, each person seems to have thoughts…
• Manafest-oh no she didn’t!
  by Corey Rossi
  We all have our own realities Approach others with the idea that your experiences can’t be fully understood. Everyone experiences things at different rates and…
• Zijie’s Manifesto
  by Zijie Zhou
  In my opinion, the design is not art, design is a service industry related to art. Art is created by artists for themselves and does…
• Manifesto: self-understanding of identity
  by Vincent Chen
  I am a Taiwanese. I learn this since I was young, and this is how I see myself. When I was still in Taiwan, no…
• Design is to work for all
  by Elena Wang
  As an interaction designer, I am committed to designing designs that truly meet people’s needs. We have limited imagination. Therefore, we should learn to be…
• Design with Intention
  by Noah Ahrens
  Design is problem solving. Design must carry intention, and be built upon a layer of functionality before beautification. It shall remain simple. Minimal. A focus…
• Be Spiritual!
  by Rebecca Lin
  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…
• Peter’s Manifesto
  by Peter Peng
  I am a designer. I design something to help people and solve problems for people. Design is different from art, art is about self-express, but…
• Manifesto: Observation, Reflection, and Innovation
  by Jasmine Sun
  ObservationAll great creation begins with observation. If we can’t see the flying birds, maybe we won’t create airplanes. In an interview with human center design,…
• Manifesto of a young Interaction Designer
  by Anh Truong
  1.   I view design as a collaborative process whereas you always learn more about yourself, your team, your users, and your community. I want to…
• Manifesto: Acceptance of All
  by Jonahtan Rabago
  If I were to make the world a better place, I would start by helping the least privileged individuals to be recognized, respected, and included…
• Finding Deeper Meaning Past the Face of Design
  by Philip Joo
  As newly taught designers within the field of interaction (or any other field of design), we can easily decide to work for a company as…
• El – Manifesto
  by Elspeth Tordoff
  Art should be for everyone, regardless of class or economic status. Design should help with this. Design should be focused on redesigning what is broken…
• For a better world
  by John Cho
  Since I decided to pursue design, I could grasp to live in different countries, the UK, the USA, and my home country, South Korea. While…
• Manifesto of Brian Zhao
  by Brian Zhao
  I lived in China for many years before I moved to America. I finished my elementary school and a part of junior high school there….
• What do you intend to do to make the world a better place?
  by Betty Li
  I think that to make the world better is not require us to create something particularly great, it just needs to set a rule for…
• What does IxD mean to me
  by Tai Hao
  Three years ago, I changed my major from fine arts to interaction design. The primary reasons could be described in three words – curiosity, technology,…