Sep 04
ourbook: A Social Network for a Totalitarian Regime In 1984, George Orwell depicts a dystopian society called Oceania where communication technologies are used as mass surveillance to ensure the dominance of the state. The proletariat masses are kept at bay through constant monitoring of actions, speech, and even ideas. Those who commit “thoughtcrimes” against the Party …
Sep 04
In the reading -Things Make Us Smart (chapter 3 The power of representations), the author Donald A Norman indicated several very impressive examples to explain how information representations become a useful tool as an artificially constructed artifact. By using the the example of the draft of PhD dissertation explains how information representations help people gain …
Sep 04
Here I have included a stop-motion paper prototype for my Facebook re-design: FBVoice. (The video displays the desktop, not mobile, view) As I mentioned last week in class, FBVoice aims to break down the barrier of miscommunication and uncertainty when it comes to Facebook statuses and comments. With FBVoice you can upload video or audio statuses …
Sep 03
For my Facebook Redesign Project, I’ve prepared a mock up of Redacted: when you absolutely, positively shouldn’t have shared that with the world. The idea is that in this culture of oversharing, we don’t take the necessary moments of reflection required to make informed decisions regarding whether that post is actually suitable for public consumption. …
Sep 03
I’ve always been a Tufte fan, and what fascinates me the most about his work is his explanations and suggestions/revisions for theoretical apparatus (often classic) in an extremely practical way, and his examples of pictures and descriptions are always nested in each other perfectly, or as I call it: “purposefully visual”. Good visuals have a …
Sep 03
I want to talk about flat design when we talk about a word such as ‘ Flatland” and “information representation”, the same as the passage” Escaping Flatland”said, we display information in a two-dimension world. The whole passage is talking about flatland as a way of information displaying. And in the field of design , recently …
Sep 01
I did a freelance job once where the client gave me pretty much free reign. He told me to make an informational flyer for airport vendors and threw in some copy. I’m quite enthralled with the infographic trend so I designed this how-to sheet in the infographic style. I was pretty pleased with myself as …
Sep 01
Escaping flatland From this article, I learned that a good information design must have three elements: high quality maps which combine substance, statistics and design; diverse details which enable readers to understand the main idea in shortest time; several layers of close reading combined with an overview data from engineering surveys. Otherwise, the whole data …
Aug 31
Facebook redesign What are we talking about When we talk about facebook ? Or severely than all，social network. The first things I am thinking about is information subscription, the whole information operating system.For example when I log in the facebook page, we actually have trapped in a information waterfall, The photos,status of our friend just …
Aug 28
My concept about the redesign is to make the home page looks more simplify, and let people feel more comfortable by using it. When I use the Facebook, I don’t really like the way they put our photos and status. The left and right side bars really occupy a lot of space, and this is …
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