Sep 09
Today I finally made a short animation of “Woody the Chick” which I mentioned yesterday (so happy to fulfill my promise :D), and of course, this time I used After Effects to do it. To make this animation, first I took a short film of my desk and used it as the background of the …
Sep 09
Given our recent readings on sketching and prototyping, I wanted to create a prototype for visualizing and changing texture using an optical tool. My constraints are still to use an organic subject matter, in this case an orange. I first made simple sketches of the cross section of an orange to depict the difference in …
Sep 09
Reading these articles have shown me that prototyping, sketching, making mock-ups, all exist to fulfill a unique role in the design process. In “What do prototypes prototype”, we learn its three purposes are showing a product’s role, its aesthetics, and its implementation. In “Experience Prototyping”, we see that this study fits in closely to understanding …
Sep 09
Today my project is time reminder machine. I did this because after our 7 in 7 project , my schedule became very busy. And I believe in 20/80 Principle. People always spend 20% time to finish 80% works. Time went on unconsciously. So this time machine just make us to see the fact that time …
Sep 09
Buxton describes sketching as an “archetypal activity associated with design”. I like his remark on the definition, yet I think all designs are also at some point “archetypal”, although I’m not a fan of making the whole concept of how we think and work be overly academic or static or certain, as the open and …
Sep 09
The readings on prototypes and mock-ups were very informative. It was really nice to learn the distinction between the two because until now it has been a little bit of a grey area for me. I now understand that mock-ups are meant to be quick, disposable representations of a project which prototypes are meant to …
Sep 09
Today I made a heat map of vegan restaurants in NYC. Whenever I make travel plans to a new city, as a vegan, I often have to plan my trip around restaurants. For example, I will not want to stay in a part of the city that has little to no vegan options. I want …
Sep 09
“What is design?” There is no certain answer to this question, probably because we all have our own perspective about the meaning of design.From John Maeda’s article, now I know how other people think about design and that helps me a lot in understanding design better. I agree that designing for people is a lot …
Sep 08
Prototype ,Sketches and ,Mock-up The passage talked about a lot of example of prototype, and some traditional way of prototyping. sketches, and mock up and Why should we prototype through whole designing process? I want to talk about it from previous working experience. When I have an internship for the company I worked for, …
Sep 08
The 4th project of 7in7 is about visualizing emotion status by interaction with users. People will choose factors – color, shape- what catch the people’s eyes at first and people will do simple drawing with a line expressing what they feel at the moment. By the processing, I want to present abstract visual graphics of …
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