Mid-Century Design

Write a short piece talking about the techniques used by the Eames, Gerstner and Sutnar that are currently considered core to the practice of Interaction Design. How have the principles created by Dreyfuss affected user research method? If you are currently in your core Sophomore classes, you may have to guess a little. Post your thoughts to the class blog. Make sure to select the Midcentury Design category.

• Mid-century Designers are “Design for People”
  by Vincent Chen
  In the world of interaction design, there are a lot of ideas discover by some successful designers. Like…
• Early design techniques
  by Elspeth Tordoff
  The great early designers such as the Eames, Gerstner and Sutnar were so good at what they did…
• Ruth Bhavsar – Midcentury Designers
  by Ruth Bhavsar
  The Eames couple, Gerstner, and Sutnar were pioneers of Interaction Design techniques, and their work spanned a wide…
• Human Factors in Design
  by DeeDee Kwon
  Dreyfuss published The Measure of Man: Human Factors in Design; He pioneered the idea of human factors affecting…
• Measuring human bodies!
  by Hermione Hu
  As a designer with an industrial design background, I just couldn’t imagine how important the measurement of the…
• Midcentury Design mindset that needs to be remembered by interaction designers
  by Betty Deng
  Henry Dreyfuss is the founder and founder of ergonomics. He insisted that the design of industrial products should…
• The True Spirit of Design
  by Ted Huang
  If we Google the word “design”, it is both a noun and a verb. As a noun, it…
• Looking Back to Look Forward
  by Elaine Choi
  Henry Dreyfuss’ work is a result of extensive research on the human body, and highlights human-centered design in…
• The influence of Eames, Gerstner and Sutnar techniques on Interaction Design
  by Lylyna Heng
  The Eames Creative Process has a crucial impact on the practice of Interaction Design for the following. First,…
• The Legacy of our Predecessors
  by Evan Tang
  The techniques used by Eames, Gerstner and Sutnar are all different fields. The Eames were a partnership and…
• Addressing Human Needs
  by Mengyao Xiu
  Eames, Gerstner, and Sutnar improved and reinvented the forms and organizations based on the principles of human ergonomics…
• Three Trailblazers to the Core of Interaction Design
  by Amanda Liu
  “To look ahead one must learn to look back.” – Henry Dreyfuss Dreyfuss & Human-centered Design Henry Dreyfuss…
• It’s All in the Technique
  by Corey Rossi
  Charles and Ray Eames are pretty awesome in that they were working with so many different materials and…
• Mid-century designers
  by Zijie Zhou
  Most of the mid-century designers did a variety of things in different design areas. Their experiences made a…
• The Mid-century Design Burst & Rules
  by Jasmine Sun
  As we all know, after World War II, the world art center began to shift from Paris to…
• Our Design Legacies
  by Rebecca Lin
  The techniques used by the Eames, Gerstner, and Sutnar seem to be in different fields, but they have…
• Design is people-oriented
  by Elena Wang
  In the Mid-Century, four designers had a profound impact on the design industry.Henry Dreyfuss was the first designer…
• Designing for People, by People
  by Philip Joo
  Henry Dreyfuss, a notable industrial designer who quoted “when the point of contact between the product and people…
• The mid-century designers
  by Tai Hao
  Ray Eames was an artist, designer, and filmmaker who had great contributions to the design field. She and…
• Pioneering Interaction Design
  by Jonahtan Rabago
  Both Charles and Ray Eames were contributors revolutionizing and simplifying interior design, with Charles’ architecture, Ray’s fine arts…
• The mid-century foundation
  by Anh Truong
  The mid-century is the age of interdisciplinary. Instead of focusing on one single aspect, designers from the mid-century…
• Know human before the design
  by Betty Li
  I think any design is designed for humans. When people think of products, we always ask whether they…
• Midcentury designers built the foundation of Interaction Design.
  by Peter Peng
  Karl Gerstner was a leading representative of Swiss typography and one of the essential typography innovators, advertising graphics…
• The Giants
  by Brian Zhao
  Designers from the mid-century made fascinating achievements in different areas and their works indubitably made valuable contributions to…
• Legacy
  by John Cho
  Midcentury designers affected the basics of Interaction Design—Eames, who designed an iconic Plywood chair, respecting hands, and materials….
• Good Design is Good Feeling.
  by Noah Ahrens
  Many Mid-Century designers laid the foundation for visual design as we know it today, some even considered how…
• core to the practice of Interaction Design
  by Monica Xu
  One of the primary rules of interaction design starts with people and comes towards a specific solution from…