The Everyday
In the book “The Design of Everyday
Things”, Donald Norman show lots of examples of good and bad design of The
Everyday.
“Complex things may require explanation,
but simple things should not. When simple things need pictures, labels, or
instructions, the design has failed. A psychology of causality is also at work
as we use everyday things.” (Norman D., 2009, pp. 9). He also describe how The
Everyday have been designed, such as how a door handle show users to push or
pull, or how scissors is designed. Hence those, he discusses that designers
retrieved those bad and good design in everything to figure out the way to
design the best, most effective functioning as for The Everyday design.
This book is relevant to The Everyday
theme because it not only explains but also critique about the design.
Therefore, what do make things as The Everyday and how they distinguish with
other types of designs?
Norman, D. (1990, February 1). The Design of Everyday Things.
Paperback.
Critical Design
In the text, “Design Noir: The Secret
Life of Electronic Objects”, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby debate how to apply
Critical Design into the electric industry. So they debate the challenge for
Critical Design to narrow assumptions.
Through quite lots of their works as
examples, such as : Parasite light, compass table, nipple chair… Anothony Dunne
and Fiona Raby research how the Critical Design acts as the main role in massive,
industrial manufactory. Furthermore, questions are given and feedbacks from
production tests that shows people how they use, how they can feel about the
objects that much different from massive products.
This text is related to Critical Design
because Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby shows lots of questions also discussions
how Critical Design get into the industrial and how it affects the way people
using things.
Dunne, A., & Raby, F. (2001). Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic
Objects. Berlin, Germany: Birkhäuser.
DIY
In the journal “Do it Yourself:
Democracy and Design”, Paul Atkinson states that a discourse around the
interface between “design” taken as a function of the acitivity of
“professional” designers, being part of production design and consumptions of
goods and the DIY taken as its antithesis – design process of self-driven,
self-directed amateur design and production activity.
He also debates the key issue of how DIY
acts as the antithesis of product design of the mass marketplace. Yet, DIY acts
as a higher level of class, overcome the social stigma to engage more to the
working classes that been excluded previously.
Atkinson P., (Spring 2006). Do It Yourself: Democracy and Design.
Design Hist: 19 (1): 1-10.doi: 10.1093/jdh/epk001
Google Warming
In the video on TEDtalk.com “Behind the
Great Firewall of China”, Michael Anti shows lots of examples of how Chinese
copy all the most popular search engines, social networks, blogs… He also
debates that when it comes to politics, there are no real privacy on Internet
at all.
Michael stated that nowadays trend is
the Internet, now we all work in a super broad, super social environment which
includes all the tools we call “search engines, blogs, social networks”. Furthermore,
the Chinese government could see the risk having the other countries’ control
on those tools, it would harm their politics. However, instead of blocking all
of this, they see the necessities in those, as long as they would satisfy the
needs in China also they could use those as political tools to govern the
country. As it is a much broader tool and any forms or medium we did use in the
past.
The video is related because I think I
can see how the world have change much since the birth of search engines,
social network, blogs in particular and the birth of the whole Internet in
general.
Anti, M. (2006, July), Behind the Great Firewall of China.
TEDGlobal 2012. Retrieved from http://on.ted.com/MichaelAnti