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Objectified Response

 

Seamus Corr

Objectified Response

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

There were a lot of designer’s opinions that I do fully agree with. Designer Dieter Rams really stood out to me, however. He stated that design should be a multitude of things. Design should be innovative, honest, useful, long-lived, environmentally friendly, minimalistic, etc. I agree with this quote the most, especially in the sense of designing for new media.

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

Again, Dieter Rams absolutely changed how I thought about design. He stated that new designs are thoughtless and arbitrary. Alongside his thought of good design being minimalistic, I’ve always catered my work to minimalism. I feel getting the point across rather than adding flashy details is much more effective.

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

I view design as a media for relaying a message. Personally, I would much rather view a poster for an event rather than read a short article about the event. Before I started my education at RMU, I tended to create very flashy and colorful designs that would grab the attention of a viewer through color and boldness. Now I believe that good design captures attention and retains attention through sleek and much more thought out placement of information.

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Seamus Corr – Thoughts on Interaction Design: Chapters 1 & 2

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

On page 22, the author describes six core components that are used in the process of Design. These core components are: define, discover, synthesize, construct, refine and reflect.

Some challenges in the industry include figuring out the always changing wants and needs of users. This is always prevalent in the design world, where the main focus is to keep a target audience. The chapter also states that is is very important to remain focused to find more detailed information while in the middle of a project.

 

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

Interaction design is design that is created with the idea that the user will interact with the technology and functions of the technology.

Interaction Design is evolving because designers are becoming very creative in how a product is designed, while still maintaining full functionality of the product. An example would be the many ways a chair looks. Interaction designers are discovering and creating different ways a simple chair can look, but still function as a comfortable seat.

In the book, it is stated frequently that Interaction Designers draw knowledge from Graphic Designers, Industrial Designers, and user interface developers. I believe that these fields are mentioned because they hand out knowledge about design, technology, and user experience.

 

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Reading Response

Question 1: The main goals of Apple’s Website are to 1) flaunt their newest products and make it very easy to learn more and purchase what they are displaying and 2) provide a support page, where new or returning customers are able to receive assistance with their products and have any questions answered.\

Question 2A: Facebook is a social media website, similar to Twitter. It is a way to stay connected with friends, family, and sometimes complete strangers by reading people’s posts or viewing posted pictures. Facebook’s wall is sorted by newest posts, pictures, and advertisements.

Question 2B: All that is required when signing up for Facebook is an email address, first and last name, birthday and gender.

Question 3: Four archiutectural approaches to information structure are: Hierarchical, Organic, Sequential and Matrix.

Hierarchical – something like a family tree or a mind map

Organic – Wikipedia

Sequential – A book

Matrix – Amazon

Question 4: Huffington Post’s index page is all navigation and a few links to other content. I’d say 98% navigation. Google index page is content with no navigation, Wikipedia is all content, Etsy is the only page that is about 50/50, content/ navigation

Question 5: First, Landor.com is a very simple layout. They use minimum distractions to allow the user the easiest navigation through their website. To help the user understand what is important, bright colors are used to catch the eye.