Interaction & Service Design Concepts: Principles, Perspectives & Practices 2016

Designing for Interaction Revisited

As the semester comes to an end, and I look back over all that I’ve learned, asked and been confronted with, I realize how far my notion of what it means to design for interaction has really come. I have been surprised, startled and scared all at once by the…

Reflection on “Design”

Seminar 1/ CMU MDes 2016 Fall

Before entering CMU design school, I had been working as a graphic designer in Tencent for several years, one of whose major responsibilities was turning wireframes into UI design. Even though Tencent was already…

Me, Myself and IxD

Redefine Interaction Design

A New Perspective

At last, the final weak is coming! We’ve explored lots of design theories and principles for the last 15 weeks. We also had some time to get to know a whole new…

Interaction Design: Conclusions

What is Interaction Design?

My answer at the beginning of class was:

To me, interaction is between two or more people, or one person + an object, an environment, or an…

Definition of Interaction Design- Revisited

A few months ago I started to define Interaction Design and when I look back now I…

One design

Designers do more than what they think they do!

Reconsidering the role of interaction design in this world: How my thoughts have changed

After the 3-month-journey of several design projects, readings and writings, I’m trying to reconsider the definition and the role of interaction design. To briefly recap…

Designing for Intelligence

Words like “smart” and “intelligent” (and their antonym “dumb”) have been used to describe machines since I was in middle school, when my most popular classmates first began to own the first iPhones. I, on the other hand, proudly communicated with an enthusiastically purple dumb…