Syllabus: Interaction & Service Design Concepts

Principles, Perspectives, and Practices

Beauty Standards

When people tell you that you’re different

To be perfectly honest, I first felt uncomfortable and unsure of how to approach this week’s topic. Growing up in North America has made me extremely sensitive to race, beauty, femininity, masculinity…

The 1000 rupee irony

An object lesson on the thousand rupee note.

Wicked Problems & The Food Ecosystem

What’s the real problem? Well, it depends on who you ask.

So You’ve Got a Wicked Problem?

First, Give Me an Example of a Tame One…

A Story of Tangjialing

The Wickedness of Nomadic Urbanism in China

In the urbanization process of Chinese cities, a particular phenomenon has caught many attention from the public. In the outskirt area of these fast-developing cities, traditional courtyard…

How do we judge intelligence?

When it comes to human intelligent, we have to agree that there is no single method to judge how intelligent a person is. How we decide someone is intelligent or not totally depends on what we associate intelligence to. We all have different criteria to define someone’s…

What is wicked problem?

Wicked problem. Okay, isn’t that what I want to drive the ultimate solution out of it? My heart starts pounding just by looking at solutions that people worldwide propose to solve so-called wicked problems. These moments always worked as refreshing moments to recall the purpose of my…

Wicked Conflicts between Locals and Muslim Immigrants

Sep 11, 2016

What Happened over The Summer

This summer was probably one of the craziest historical moments in my entire life; While doing the internship in…