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“OBJECTIFIED” RESPONSE

  1. Do you agree or disagree with any of the designers’ statements, why?

I agree with all of the designers as they all talk about how design is meant to look at the future. What is going to happen or what is not going to happen and how they can adjust things to that.

  1. Has anything the designers said changed how you thought about design?

Everything in our world has been designed. Whether we realize it or not. Every object tells a story even if you can’t read it. When they are designing, the designers look at the extremes and therefore the middle will balance out. They look at designing things that won’t date as bad as other things. Design something that gets better with use, something that can be worn in rather than warns out.

  1. Each designer interviewed for “Objectified” defined how they see Design, how would you define design and how has that definition changed?

Before watching this I would have defined design as the more complicated side of things. Like technology objects, websites, complex yet simple object.

After watching the movie I would define design as making everyday objects simple for the users without the user feeling like it has been designed. Making the complicated simple for everyone.

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Reading Response Chapters 1 & 2

  1. What makes up interaction design and what are some of the industry’s challenges?

Interaction design is a creative process focused on people, meaning that everything that is designed for interaction is based on how the people will interact with it. If it will be simple or complicated and how it can be improved upon. Some of the challenges this industry faces are that they don’t always know if the product will work but there are precautions in making sure the product does work and how to improve upon it.

  1. What is interaction design, how its evolving? What fields does it draw knowledge from?

Interaction design is taking an everyday thing and making it better without people realize it has been improved. Interaction design is evolving with the help of everything being digitalized. Designers are now able to see how things move and how things interact via a computer screen.

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Elements of the User Experience Reading Responce

1a) Goals of Apple:

To acquire exceptionally good products and have a reliable service that comes at a price that best fits their customers and shareholders.

1b)Needs of users:

Apple uses “user segmentation”. By clicking on different options that Apple provides, the user finds what they are looking for fairly easy. And if not, there is a support page that will help them with the harder questions they might have.

  1. Functional specifications of Facebooks wall:

When you first sign up for Facebook it gets you to pick some of your interests and gets you to find some friends so that it has an idea of what to show you on your news feed.

  1. Specs for Facebook signup page:

Email/phone number, birthday, first/last name, password, and gender

4)Four architectural approaches

1: hierarchical

Facebook. There are ads and links all throughout Facebook but they all come back to Facebook

2: matrix

nike. The user can look through size, price, colour, and product

3: organic

inquisitive. The sight my Econ professor used, you could find information fairly easily but going back and forth between questions and the reading is difficult

4: sequential

youtube. Watching videos

  1. Percentage of Huffington post:

It’s a lot to a little

  1. http://landor.com

Always something to look at, lots of pictures