{"id":296,"date":"2024-01-11T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T00:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T21:10:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:10:20","slug":"in-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Posts from students about iconography, pictography and modern mobile icon suites and thoughts about Leonardo DaVinci\u2019s inventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates has-author wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/early-writing-pictographs\/evolution-of-the-icon-and-its-history\/\">Evolution of the icon and its history<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Judith Weng<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-24T03:39:30+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 24, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">When\u00a0comparing\u00a0modern\u00a0mobile\u00a0app\u00a0iconography\u00a0to\u00a0ancient\u00a0writing\u00a0systems\u00a0such\u00a0as\u00a0Egyptian\u00a0hieroglyphics\u00a0or\u00a0Mayan\u00a0pictographs,\u00a0it\u00a0is\u00a0evident\u00a0that\u00a0both\u00a0types\u00a0use\u00a0images\u00a0to\u00a0transmit\u00a0concepts\u00a0swiftly. For\u00a0example,\u00a0consider\u00a0the\u00a0&#8220;mail&#8221;\u00a0icon\u00a0in\u00a0many\u00a0mobile\u00a0apps\u2014a\u00a0basic\u00a0envelope\u00a0indicating\u00a0communication,\u00a0similar\u00a0to\u00a0how\u00a0Egyptian\u00a0glyphs\u00a0employed\u00a0animals\u00a0or\u00a0symbols\u00a0to\u00a0describe\u00a0activities\u00a0or\u00a0concepts. Both\u00a0systems\u00a0rely\u00a0on\u00a0learned\u00a0metaphors:\u00a0comprehending\u00a0an\u00a0envelope\u00a0implies\u00a0&#8220;message&#8221;\u00a0in\u00a0today&#8217;s\u00a0context,\u00a0much\u00a0as\u00a0understanding\u00a0a\u00a0bird\u00a0glyph\u00a0may\u00a0signify\u00a0&#8220;soul&#8221;\u00a0or\u00a0&#8220;flying&#8221;\u00a0in\u00a0ancient\u00a0times. Ancient writings, such as Sumerian cuneiform, also served a utilitarian purpose, conveying abstract concepts like ownership or&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/youtube-icons-and-mayan-pictographs-comparison\/\">Youtube icons and Mayan pictographs comparison<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Kuan-ju Chen<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-18T02:49:01+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 18, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">This is the icon for &#8220;Trending&#8221; in YouTube. It is symbolizing &#8220;fire&#8221;, probably representing &#8220;fire&#8221; or &#8220;hot&#8221;. If you click&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/early-writing-pictographs\/doordash-v-mayan-hieroglyphs\/\">DoorDash v Mayan hieroglyphs<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Cherubin Vanjinath<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-17T20:38:48+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Cherubin<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/early-writing-pictographs\/pictography-modern-icons\/\">Pictography &amp; Modern Icons<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Wise Liu<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-17T19:45:23+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">By looking at both Mayan graphs and airbnb\u2019s icons and graphs, I realized there are many similarity from the creations&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/gmail\/\">Gmail and original alphabet<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Kiera Shangguan<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-17T11:59:31+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Here is the &#8216;Browser&#8217; section in Gmail. Multiple icons are used to represent different categories. Such as a trash can&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/twitter-vs-egyptian-hieroglyphics\/\">Twitter Vs Egyptian Hieroglyphics<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Tiffany Chau<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-17T08:33:45+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Prior to X\u2019s rebrand from Twitter, the iconic blue bird Ollie, was the mascot and brand symbol responsible for the&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/early-writing-pictographs\/facebook-icons-vs-egyptian-hieroglyphics\/\">Facebook icons vs Egyptian hieroglyphics<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Kriti Kanda<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-17T06:22:56+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The Facebook icon I have chosen is the speech bubble, and from the Egyptian hieroglyphics, I have chosen the \u2018Ankh\u2019&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/early-writing-pictographs\/pinterest-icons-mayan-pictographs\/\">Pinterest Icons &amp; Mayan Pictographs<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Angelina Cao<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-17T06:14:54+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Pinterest icons and Mayan Pictographs are similar in the sense that they both use recognizable pictures of real-life objects to&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/early-writing-pictographs\/google-maps-icon-vs-egyptian-hieroglyphics\/\">Google maps icon vs Egyptian hieroglyphics<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Olivia Stenerson<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-11T00:59:23+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 11, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">I compared the icons in Google Maps to Egyptian hieroglyphics. For Google Maps, some of the icons are obvious while&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/mayan-culture-words-and-icons-from-a-weather-app\/\">Mayan culture words and icons from a weather app<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Yujie Yin<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-10T23:39:31+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 10, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Introduction: The two sets of objects I&#8217;ve chosen to compare are hieroglyphs from the Mayan culture and icons from a&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/tristan-google-map-icon-vs-egyptian-hieroglyphics\/\">Google Map Icon vs Egyptian Hieroglyphics<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Xiaorui Zhan<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-10T08:54:28+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 10, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The &#8220;Speak&#8221; icon in Google Map: This is the &#8220;Speak&#8221; icon in Google Map, used for inputing user&#8217;s voice to&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/joy-spotify-icon-mayan-pictographs\/\">Spotify icon &amp; Mayan pictographs<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Joy Jia<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-09T20:09:00+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 9, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">This is &#8220;shuffle button&#8221; from Spotify. Crisscrossing arrows represents the randomization of song order. This icon is simple and intuitive,&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/amazon-icon-sumerian-alphabet\/\">Amazon Icon &amp; Sumerian Alphabet<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Yijie Ding<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-09T08:54:36+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 9, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Before I had thought about why we can understand icons very easily, it&#8217;s insane. In my opinion, icons are words&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/in-the-beginning-pictography-modern-icons-blog-post-1\/\">In the beginning &#8211; Pictography &amp; Modern Icons &#8211; Blog Post 1<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Shuoning Liang<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-09T08:28:30+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 9, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">One of the most popular mapping software is Google maps which has many modern images and icons. In contrast to&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/instagram-icon-vs-egyptian-hieroglyphics\/\">Instagram Icon vs Egyptian hieroglyphics.<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Yansong Teng<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-09T07:09:22+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 9, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Ancient texts\/symbols were often more complex than today&#8217;s abstracted icons. However, there were also some graphics whose appearance did not&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/pictography-modern-icons-blog-post-1-shiqi-liu-alfreda\/\">Camera Icon VS Eye symbol<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Shiqi Liu<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-07T20:33:52+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 7, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Mobile App Icons: Camera Icon Icon Description:&nbsp;An icon is usually a simplified graphic of a lens in a rectangular box,&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/whatsapp-and-ancient-languages\/\">WhatsApp and Ancient Languages<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Ruihan Wang<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-09-05T20:43:32+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 5, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Ruihan Wang,2024Fall\/IXDSN-3600-1,2024\/9\/5 One of the most popular communication apps, WhatsApp, has many modern iconographies. In comparison of the ancient writing&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/in-the-beginning\/a-tangled-web\/\">A Tangled Web<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by erin malone<\/div><time datetime=\"2024-08-20T22:14:43+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">August 20, 2024<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The history of interaction design is a tangled web of other disciplines\u2014human factors, industrial design, psychology, sociology, human-computer interaction coming&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posts from students about iconography, pictography and modern mobile icon suites and thoughts about Leonardo DaVinci\u2019s inventions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}