The Web is Changing
The big point in this A List Apart post that I really find interesting and exciting is that web design is no longer just print design made digital. It’s become its own medium. Pages are becoming less...
View ArticleTurning Data in to Information
Response to Wurman reading. One thing that we all have to deal with, now more than ever, is the over-saturation of data. We can easily get immersed in it, without ever gaining any actual useful...
View Article“Design” vs. Design
I recently read an article on TechCrunch about user experience and what it takes to succeed in the competitive world of tailored/targeted apps. While the article specifically talks about the...
View ArticleTwo Approaches to Social Design: Focused Advocacy & the Big Picture
Response to Good Citizenship and Design Thinking: A Useful Myth The main points made in the two readings were very different. One leaned heavily to the belief in focused, perhaps even biased design....
View ArticleThe Stuff of Growth
1: Makeup Tutorial I’ve learned that one’s appearance as a teenage girl in high school or college is very important. However, as a jaded mid-20-something-year-old who’s been in college entirely too...
View ArticleSocial Dissent and Graphic Propaganda
One of the reasons why I love graphic design is because we have the ability to voice our opinions through our unique means of communicating. We are experts at representing a concept with something...
View ArticleThe First Step is Giving a Shit, Then You Do the Hokey-Pokey
Design with Intent User-centered design is a method of designing for function and ease-of-use before anything else. The problem with this is that the designers involved are encouraged to not impose...
View ArticleTaking Visual Advocacy Into Your Own Hands
Sometimes to make a point, and to make it well, you have to literally make a mark on your environment. When traditional channels don’t fill the needs, you’ve got to take it into your own hands. There’s...
View ArticleTangential Reflection
I seem to have gotten myself into a bit of a tangent. Like, a whole blog post’s worth. When I saw the line in Human Dignity & Human Rights that said, “I believe we all recognized the significant...
View ArticleDesigning With the Environmental Impact in Mind
Cradle to Cradle made a good point about the origins and life cycles of materials and how we should take them into consideration when designing. One thing I took away from the reading—and I’m sure this...
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