Lidwell readings
Archetypes We can think of archetypes as expected behavior from something or someone. This expectation comes from a common history of certain communities or in some cases people around the world. For example a “hero” is expected to behave in a certain way, if we ask the people around the…
Fuch’s questions for the play Hedwig and The Angry Inch
So what kind of world does this play belong to? Hedwig is a transgender women from East Berlin, she has a sex botched change operation at the age of 26, she marries an American who brings her to the US and leaves her, she dates another boy who leaves her…
Examples of bad interaction design
Ok, so examples of bad interaction design. Bad Example1: Walk signs No feedback when you press it, you are left wondering whether it registered your push or not and you end up pushing it really hard several times just to make sure. Also, every new person does it just to…
Fuch’s questions for the play Aunt Dan and Lemon
Aunt Dan and Lemon is a play that takes place largely in the imagination of the lead character Lemon. Hence, even though at first it might seem like the play is based in the world we live in, because of references to events and characters in our shared reality, there…
Soundscape v1
So as first assignment for the class Immersive listening in VR was to create a soundscape, which meant tell a story or create an experience with sound. More than the story though, the aim of the assignment was to learn how to create a sense of space in stereo. Which…
DFLP, The Deadly Theatre Reading
I don’t think I have ever seen a proper theatre performance. Coming from a small city in India, for most of my life I have lived with the understanding that theatre is something that happens in Mumbai, the Hollywood of India. It never came to my city and I never…
Making an action for Google Assistant
Google assistant is one of the most powerful platform out there. Google’s enormous scale and their prowess in machine learning gives google assistant a fair shot at becoming the next iTunes. As designers and developers we have to think about its impact on user behavior. There are several implications that…
Mockups for note taking product
So the idea of creating an automated voice to text note taking app is not really revolutionary. Saying its AI based just makes it more cliched. The difference that we can make is by making a good product. With this spirit I came up with a first draft of the…