The Pace of Design
When I think about Pace Layers, I think about how they help me as an Interaction Design student understand why different parts of my project might move at different speeds. Some decisions change really easily with little...
Design at Multiple Speeds
Pace Layering provides a productive analytical lens for understanding how interaction design work unfolds over time. Rather than framing the world as a strict hierarchy, the Pace Layers model clarifies how different rhythms of...
How Interaction on the Internet Has Evolved From Web 2.0 to Today
What interactions had to become available for Web 2.0 and how is this different than today? In the Web 2.0 era, sites introduced personal profiles, content uploads, comment systems, tagging, and bookmarking. Anyone could upload...
Mind, bones, and skin: Pace layers
After learning about the system, the concept of pace layers just makes sense. In a self-regulating system, different layers move through time at different speeds. Take our bodies, for example. Different parts have their own...
Layers of Change
Pace Layers are an illustration of the pace at which pieces of a system develop and change. Fashion, commerce, infrastructure, governance, culture, and nature are the layers in order of fastest to slowest to change. In...
Beyond the UI Refresh
Pace Layers give designers a clear way to understand how some parts of Interaction Design were able to rapidly evolve, while others remain stagnant. Stewart Brand mentions fashion and commerce layers which dictate the rapid...
How Interactions Evolved from Web 2.0 to Today
The transition to Web 2.0 was a pretty big turning point in how people used the internet. Early web stuff was mostly passive - you just read information on static pages and that was it. With Web 2.0 the web became more of a...
User-Centered Design: the Future Belongs to Users
I remember asked my dad once why he quit his job at the city newspaper. Both my parents had been journalists there before social media took off. He'd left to become a documentary director instead. His answer was simple: "The...
The Evolution of Social Participation in the Digital Space
Web 2.0 was a radical shift for how people interacted with each other via their personal computers. This was a time when online communities had started to form, and it entailed a need for features that accommodated social...
From User-to-User to User-to-System
Web 2.0 marked a turning point because it was the first time the digital world functioned as an actual social environment. Early Internet behavior was basically one-directional and people went online mainly to handle their own...
Web 2.0 to 2025
Web 2.0 brought us many incredible advancements in the way we saw and interacted with the web. Gone were the days of static pages, and here to stay was the revolution of interaction, social media, user created content. ...
The difference between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
I think Web 2.0 can let users to interact with the website instead of just watching them. So users can upload videos and write comments on the internet, such as Youtube and Facebook. At the same time, the website has dynamic page...
When the web learned how to talk back
To start, Web 2.0 emerged in the early to mid-2000s, marking a significant turning point in technology and, of course, interaction design. It really started the shift from static webpages to interactive, user-generated, socially...
When the Web went Social
Web 2.0 emerged when the internet shifted to dynamic, user-driven platforms, hence the explosion of social networking through blogs and interactive apps. Website experienced vast changes, but what really changed was the...
CHM Field Trip
The visit to the Computer History Museum was actually surprisingly fun to me. I thought it would be mainly about the previous generations of computer engines and early calculators, but I discovered a bunch of very interesting...
Imagination, Curiosity, and the Origins of AI
What impressed me the most when I visited the Computer History Museum was that the history of technology felt like a "story created by people's imagination and curiosity," not just the development of machines or codes. Looking at...
Computer History Museum Visit
What was your impression of the CHM? What did you learn that hadn't been covered in class? What was your favorite fact or object and why? I really enjoyed my visit to the Computer History Museum. It had a very professional feel,...
Field Trips – Computer History Museum
My impression of the Computer History Museum was that it was way bigger and more interactive than I expected. The exhibits showed how computers changed from these huge machines that filled entire rooms to personal devices we use...
CHM Field Trips
My Impression of the CHM:I thought the Computer History Museum was really cool. It was interesting to see how video games and computers have changed over time. Seeing the old machines in person made me appreciate how much...
From War Machine to Commercial Machine
I've been diving deep into Post-War ideologies ever since my first project for this class, where I explored Metropolis and the historical context behind society's obsession with technology and industrialization. For example,...
CHM Visit
The Computer History Museum was an incredible space! I was really impressed with how everything was displayed, and I enjoyed finding my way around the museum. It was exciting to learn more about the progression of computers,...
Finding Humanity in Machines: A Reflection of my Visit to the CHM
My first impression of the CHM was... "Oh my god, this is so cool!"(me, verbatim at the CHM, 2025) Everywhere I looked, there were genuine items and replicas alike that brought me so much awe for humanity’s ingenuity. Before...
Discovering what came before: CHM
I thought that the CHM had really impressive exhibits. I think when I arrived, I was just expecting that the museum would cover all the main stories of a literal computer's history; instead, I was faced with all kinds of...
Reflections on the Computer History Museum
The CHM didn't feel like a traditional museum to me, instead it felt more like entering a story. The experience began in a dark hallway that resembled the entrance of a cinema, as if the museum wanted visitors to "set aside...
The experience in CHM
My impression of the CHM is that there are so many old computers and robots in it, which is really cool. The old computer looks amazing and classic. Although most of them are very heavy and clumsy, but they shows a glorious...