Hugh's article on Allan Cooper: Alan Cooper and the Goal Directed Design Process , and Alan Cooper

Hello everyone,

We will not have our usual class with Hugh on Friday, due to our studio being occupied by a guest speaker at the same time. You should, however, plan on posting another version of your poster on NuVu this week to get further feedback.

Particularly for those of you with english is a second language, please reach out to your colleagues and myself as soon as possible to peer-review your posters and check for grammatical erros. We had a great peer-review session with some of you yesterday, and I hope those who were not present are reaching out to each other to do the same. These are ideally portfolio pieces that really require a lot of editing to make them shine!

Best wishes,

Skye
 

Hello everyone,

A few important class notes and NuVu updates (please read through all below): the "Final Project" tab now contains a folder for each of you. You will notice that I have moved some of your final poster work into the "Process" tab. You should continue to post draft and final work into your personal folder on this page. Hugh is looking for everyone to have a draft up on NuVu this evening. 

Other tabs:

The "Precedents" folder is for you to post any resources that you think are pertinent or helpful with regard to your final poster. The "Final" tab is where your final final poster will be submitted, along with the PDF of your class book.

Though I will not be there with you in class tomorrow (Jessie has kindly offered to use her computer for the Hangout; I will send the link shortly), I will be available Monday from 12-1:30pm for help/advice on posters.

Upon popular request, on Tuesday (5 April) we will host a peer review of posters from 12-1:30 in Ryder 320 for all who can attend.

Please email me with questions,

Skye

The Experience Cycle 

Book: The Universe of Design. Horst Rittel's Theories of Design and Planning.
by Jean-Pierre Protzen  (Author), David J. Harris (Author)

METADESIGN

by

Humberto Maturana

Hi Everyone,

Just a heads up that, for some reason, the icon for Week 05 (2/12) does not always appear in chronological order with the others. It is, indeed, in the "Assignments" folder, so please submit your diagrams under that [Week 05] folder.

Good luck!

"The foundational article in Interaction Design"

As We May Think (The Atlantic Monthly)

by Vannevar Bush

Teaser from the Editor:

"As Director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush has coordinated the activities of some six thousand leading American scientists in the application of science to warfare. In this significant article he holds up an incentive for scientists when the fighting has ceased. He urges that men of science should then turn to the massive task of making more accessible our bewildering store of knowledge. For years inventions have extended man's physical powers rather than the powers of his mind. Trip hammers that multiply the fists, microscopes that sharpen the eye, and engines of destruction and detection are new results, but not the end results, of modern science. Now, says Dr. Bush, instruments are at hand which, if properly developed, will give man access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages. The perfection of these pacific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar," this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge."

And on the power of "unlimited semiosis" (linking ideas; Hugh read this quote in class):

"The human mind does not work that way. It operates by association. With one item in its grasp, it snaps instantly to the next that is suggested by the association of thoughts, in accordance with some intricate web of trails carried by the cells of the brain. It has other characteristics, of course; trails that are not frequently followed are prone to fade, items are not fully permanent, memory is transitory. Yet the speed of action, the intricacy of trails, the detail of mental pictures, is awe-inspiring beyond all else in nature."

Welcome to the Metastructure: The New Internet of Transportation by Adam Rogers

"Sound familiar? Of course it does. That’s how the Internet works. (Remember when it was called the information superhighway? It’s like that, but for actual highways.) This decentralized approach to remapping our physical roads is fundamentally (and finally) changing everything about how we get around."