Prompt #2

“Industry pander[s] to the public’s ready acceptance of anything new, anything different.” –Victor Papanek

In the second chapter of Design for the Real World, Victor Papanek defines three types of obsolescence: technological, material, and artificial.

Prompt #3

“If we then ‘lump together’ all the seemingly little minorities, if we combine all these ‘special’ needs, then we find we have designed for the majority after all. It is only the ‘designer’… who, by concocting trivia for the market-places of a few abundant societies, really designs for the minority.”

Prompt #5

Think of a design project you’ve always wanted to do — your dream design project.

Got one in mind?

For this dream project, answer the following questions:

1. What is it?

Unitrans Website Redesign Process

Sandra Bae

Isabel Bagsik

THE PROBLEM

1. Why Redesign the Unitrans Website?

From casual observations and even to the extent of interviewing with other people, we have found…

Prompt #4

“That which we throw away, we fail to value.” –Victor Papanek

1. In your own words, what does it mean for a design to be ‘sustainable’? Consider, alternatively, what it means for a design to be ‘disposable’.
2. What are ways you can apply your definition of…

Design Process: Community Housing Listing

Our wireframes are to redesign the Community Housing Listing (CHL) website. The CHL sponsored by ASUCD is an interactive listing of living options in the city of Davis, CA. The site is open to both the UC Davis community and the greater Davis community. The…

Design Process: Davis Wushu Website

Following the success of an amazingly productive and fun year for Davis Wushu, a student organization at UC Davis whose goal is to promote, inspire, educate, and compete in wushu, it was time to look to future goals for the club and analyze how this year could have…

Vampire Penguin Site (Davis Location)

By Jackie Zhang & Beatrice Lee

Vampire Penguin is know for serving their cold and creamy Taiwanese dessert, also known as shaved snow. It is a cross between ice cream and the traditional shaved ice desserts that is…