Learning to see

Learning to draw isn't sbout what's in front of you, it's about the shapes that are created.

Body lines

The most important part of a car is it's body lines. Some people like edgy and angular, I love curves and slopes.

Form and function

A couple of ideas for my box

Designers as "Social Engineers"

Design isn't just arts and crafts, it's engineering aesthetics to fit within a set of peramiters.

Got plastered in class today...

I want something bigger...

I love design and design thinking, however I am little interested in meterial designs. I want to research and understand and reinvent. Not in the context of Shark Tank (one of my favorite shows) but in the context of systems and people. I'm really finding ethnography and interaction design interesting. I love designing products because of its creativeness, but I like long intense design. Design to help peoples lives.

Typogrophy and Color Contrast

Not only is the contrast important also the chosen typeface will make the difference in a good or bad sign. When using too bold weighted typefaces the text will look like its expanding of the sign, when using too light weighted typefaces the text will fall back into its background. Medium or Regular weights are usually the best options to choose for a good and readable sign.

--From a very interesting read

http://designworkplan.com/design/signage-and-color-contrast.html

Quattro types of prototypes! (Reading response)

Design is the art of seeing hidden moves, as a designer we must always be looking and paying attention. In design the devil isn't in the details, he's between the details. It's up to is to see these details and see what's between them; what the connections are. Humans make decisions, and the hidden connections are where those decisions are made, seeing those decisions helps designers improve and simplify. 

As a designer is thinking and making (see what I did there?) there are four main ways that ideas can be translated and improved through prototyping.

Conceptual: Displays an idea in its beginning stages. Often abstract and very vague. Generally these prototypes are for a designer-designer translation.

Procedural: Used to display the logic implied to the design. The aesthetics and covers so-to-speak are kept away.

Behavioral: Elicits user responses. Still stays away from aesthetics but shows how the logic in the design is applied to the user. Focused on integration and response.

Appearance: The typical prototype. Shows the whole idea as it will be seen by the user. Aesthetic is included and the covers are on. 

Bedtime Motivation

While laying in bed running through your day, try reading for class! I did this last night night and it actually turned out to be really enjoyable! I felt like since I was already laying there on my phone I should do something productive. Another bonus I found was that I connected with the material a lot more with out all those pesky distractions, like lights!

Here's my favorite thing I read.