Shengzhi’s MDes Thesis

Ideas

Prototypes and next steps (2018.10.17)

I made 4 prototypes to mock up the interactions to explore different types of affordances in…

Notes for “From weekend AR demo to release on ProductHunt”

Thoughts about thesis

I appreciate the design of Nest’s Thermostat, in which it attempts to blend the technology and screens back into…

Notes for AfterMath: VisualizingConsequences of Actions through Augmented Reality

The article is written by Sang-won Leigh, and Pattie Maes at MIT media Lab, and paper is published in CHI 2015.

Thesis Update (Nov, 2nd)

Since last week, I considered a lot whether I should put the research of AR affordances into a specific context…

Notes for “Affordances and Design”

By Don Norman

The word “affordance” was originally invented by the perceptual psychologist J. J. Gibson (1977, 1979) to refer to the actionable properties between the world and an actor (a person or animal). To Gibson, affordances are a…

Initial thoughts

After reading a couple articles, I believe there are several points that can give me…