Design with code

Don’t prototype, but “pretotype”.

Pretotyping helps eliminate the Bad Ideas from the Good. It helps Fail Fast and Fail Often, facilitating product idea evolution towards the “right” product with minimum possible investment of time and money.

Code, AI and design

Being a designer is hard. A designer is often faced with many dilemmas such as should I learn to draw? Should I learn to code? Should I learn softwares? Endless. But today, I would like to focus on one of the dilemmas. Designers and code.

Designers should code

The first week of this course has been exhilarating and tiring all the same. Thursday started with an introduction to programming, with the question “Should designers code?” A class that started with this question was certainly made for me.

Deceptive code

Coding is NOT a joke. You try, try and keep trying until you are tired of seeing the ERROR on your screen. You then ask the people around. Then you call some of your friends who supposedly know Python but prove to be useless at such critical times. Then you watch an hour long Youtube video to find out…

Beginning to Code Conversations-

This week was quite like an all out approach to getting things really started. From the basic calculations using code to actually bringing life to our chatbot prototype is definitely something am curious to see it’s tangibility . All this while iterating our conversations…

1. terminal, technology and lots of talking

Finding out that 1968 was the world debut of interactive, personal computing and not the late 1900s — early 2000 came to me as a surprise. Knowing that some of the ideas that have gained popularity recently had already been lingering around people’s…

Reflection (Week — 3)

Starting this week slow in terms of work was a really nice change. We started by watching movies including elements of AI in them. In these movies AI was shown in both, positive and negative, perspectives. Understanding how AI could potentially make or destroy the future really gives a…

Metaclass

The week began by watching a video compilation of short clips from movies that show artificial intelligence. To focus on the different ways it is portrayed. Each movie had an interesting and different take on the representation of AI. My personal favourite was ‘Her’. I had already watched a couple of movies…

A step forward!

This week we actually got a step closer to implementing our idea about better interactions in the canteen. The idea of holding an exhibition to get other people to see and give us feedback was very insightful. We had set up a demo space with posters and a step by step documentation of how we reached…