1. “The Social Life of Urban Spaces” -William Whyte This article highlights the importance of research when designing public spaces in urban environments. Research of how the public spaces are intended to be used and on the intended users themselves. Whyte mentions, for example, that men and women interact with their environments differently. That women …
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Sep 11
Reading Response Week 3- Mashups
Grey Album Producer Danger Mouse Explains How He Did It The way Burton describes a mashup as a deconstruction as opposed to just stealing and reproducing is fascinating. This reading makes it clear that since a mashup is dealing with two separate media, it is important to cater to the restrictions of each to make …
Sep 11
Reading Response Week Three: Mashup the World
Mashing up together or syncing, harmonizing or paralleling, original or edited, these are the questions I come up with when the word mashup appears. Several important issues when it comes to create a mashup project: 1. choice of materials; 2. (Re)Composition; 3. Post-editing. Good mashups take successful elements or aspects from different sources and rebuild …
Sep 09
Week 3 Reading Response
The readings on prototypes and mock-ups were very informative. It was really nice to learn the distinction between the two because until now it has been a little bit of a grey area for me. I now understand that mock-ups are meant to be quick, disposable representations of a project which prototypes are meant to …
Sep 03
Reading Response: Week Two: 3-2 2-3
I’ve always been a Tufte fan, and what fascinates me the most about his work is his explanations and suggestions/revisions for theoretical apparatus (often classic) in an extremely practical way, and his examples of pictures and descriptions are always nested in each other perfectly, or as I call it: “purposefully visual”. Good visuals have a …
Aug 31
Week 2 Day 1 Reading Response
Escaping Flatland: The idea that “every opportunity to spread through additional information over an already-available dimension must be cherished” resonated with me. The author stated this when discussing the train schedule mapping on pages 24-25. This reminds me of something I read in Donald Norman’s book, The Design of Everyday Things. Norman discusses the confusion …
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