What is design to do with?
Everything?
In the past three weeks, I’ve traveled the learning curve of electronics with a lot of joy, with an indescribable sense of naivety and with the feeling that is very important to my future career development. However, I feel that could be said almost of anything regarding design.
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I’ve been here in the US for a little more than two months. It’s been a new and shocking experience in many senses. But my first quarter is about to end. I will be here for six quarters, but three of them will be devoted to the thesis. I know what they talk about now when they say prototype, need-finding, human factors, framework.
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This quarter I took a very interesting class called Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction, dictated by Scott Klemmer here at Stanford. It basically showed us how to build and, above all, how to test an interaction. It is supposed to be about the relation between a human and a machine…but sometimes I thought we were talking about human-human interaction.
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Even inside the same discipline, technology does not advances on a par. The digital filming techniques, by instance, have revolutionized the movie industry. However, in many places, we continue to see those movies through an analogical device, with a film and a source of light.
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I think Stanford is doing a good job in trying to take a process out of the chaos of design work. Observation, insights, design actions, brainstormin, etc. However, as in any other synthesis effort, those things that are hard to talk-about are being left outside. I can easily think of two that are, in my opinion, pillars of design work. I mentioned them in the title of this post.
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I’ve been reading some stuff about the G1 phone because I wanted to buy an Iphone and I can’t because I don’t have a SSN…besides, it’s been sometime since I’m kind of pissed off by Apple, with all their nineteenth century business model disguised as trendy stuff. They do built great things but…why all this obsolete protection?
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