More than several weeks have passed and I have yet to set my blog up properly, I didn't quit understand at first as I thought we only had to blog about the questions and answers. After submitting my first blog my lecturer gave me and other members of the class some examples we could learn from, only then I knew what I was doing wrong. We had to blog about everything we did in that class, from lectures to the activities we did.
Retracing my steps back I reread the information given to us to make sure I was doing the right thing. The class started reading John Maeda's: The Laws of Simplicity and questions were given out that needed to be answered.
What does S.H.E mean?
Shrink, Hide and EmbodyIn your own words define 'human technologist'.
I think that humanist technologist is a person that centres themselves around technology, or technology that surrounds the interest and wellbeing of humans.
How can you apply the notion of reduce to your own design process?
An example would be reducing the complications on today's DSLR's by cutting down the number of buttons it has and keep a few that does the same things that all the other buttons do like ISO, shutter speed and setting the aperture.
Explain the relationship between simplicity and complexity?
Everyone wants to live a life of simplicity but don't understand the complexity they themselves bring into their lives. People want an item to appear delicate and simple yet we also want it to do everything, for example is the smart phones of today, we've reduced the size for the phones to fit in our palms and they can do so much more that phones couldn't do 8-10 years ago such as built in mp3 player, HD camera and internet access that allows us to do things on our phone which we usually do on a computer. Another example is from John Maeda's book of Laws of Simplicity, he explains that the computational power of a machine that weighed around 60,000 pounds and covered 1,800 square feet has been reduced to the size of a silver metal the size of our pinkie nails. Babies and infants are another example of complexity, although they are small they require constant care and attention, appearing fragile and delicate they can create chaos in ones house hold.
The class played a game shortly after working on our blogs, it was a game based where everyone paired up and needed to communicate to each other non verbally. It was quite interesting, in my opinion people in the class were so used to talking that some of us struggled using body language to communicate with one another. With so many words to express in the dictionary it's quite difficult to express each word using body language, instead we managed to communicate with each other by performing the body movements as if we were doing it with the objects that we normally use, for example answering a phone one would hold their hand to the ear and mouth soundless words as if talking, or at a circus we would pretend to be clowns and act wacky. If the whole world was mute I believe we would still be able to communicate with each other just as fine.
The class then watched a presentation from an organisation called IDEO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66ZU2PCIcM
IDEO is primarily a product design company that specialises in redesigning products from other companies to improve the product and make it more beneficial and convenient than it was before. To do this they employ a number of people each with a unique set of skills to benefit the project given such as engineering, literature to biology, these are just quick examples of the difference they have.
What type of Organisation is IDEO?
IDEO is a product design company that specialises in redesigning products from other companies to improve the product and make it more beneficial and convenient than it was before.
What are the different processes they employ in design research?
they employ a number of people each with a unique set of skills to benefit the project given such as engineering, literature to biology, these are just quick examples of the difference they have. By inputing their personal experiences to guide their design plans, with each member of the group being different each idea is also different which could be used to benefit the project.
How did they define the range and scope of the problem?
They questioned users of the product and retrieved opinions as well as the creators of the product.
How could you apply their methodology to developing a concept for your exhibition piece?
By thinking outside of the box and allowing opinions from each member of the group and utilising each idea into one piece.
The class then watched a presentation from an organisation called IDEO.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M66ZU2PCIcM
IDEO is primarily a product design company that specialises in redesigning products from other companies to improve the product and make it more beneficial and convenient than it was before. To do this they employ a number of people each with a unique set of skills to benefit the project given such as engineering, literature to biology, these are just quick examples of the difference they have.
What type of Organisation is IDEO?
IDEO is a product design company that specialises in redesigning products from other companies to improve the product and make it more beneficial and convenient than it was before.
What are the different processes they employ in design research?
they employ a number of people each with a unique set of skills to benefit the project given such as engineering, literature to biology, these are just quick examples of the difference they have. By inputing their personal experiences to guide their design plans, with each member of the group being different each idea is also different which could be used to benefit the project.
How did they define the range and scope of the problem?
They questioned users of the product and retrieved opinions as well as the creators of the product.
How could you apply their methodology to developing a concept for your exhibition piece?
By thinking outside of the box and allowing opinions from each member of the group and utilising each idea into one piece.
