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Levels Of Curiosity?
We are all curious beings. Aren’t we?
I figured that by knowing the level of curiosity of a person, we can derive the level of maturity of one’s thinking. So referring to the diagram that I drew above - if were to put them into an axis; the y-axis would be the level of maturity of [...]
I WANT GOOD SEATS!
Are there seats? Are there good seats?
So what do we mean by good seats? I noticed, that people tend not to take the first few rows in cinemas. To the extent where they would actually wait for a couple of hours, for a later slot, so just they can get better seats.
Just a quick survey, [...]
GHANDI
“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” – Ghandi.
Explain in design context.
It’s not something that is worlds apart. What is? Humans and design are so tightly integrated together. A matter of fact, everything is design. And when we talk about the world, we talk about design. And when we [...]
THINK!
My Library: THINK! Before It’s Too Late by Eward de Bono.
“You can analyse the past but you have to design the future. The whole emphasis is on judgement and analysis. Design is almost totally neglected. The reason for this is that the thinking of the GG3 (Greek Gang 3: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle) was totally [...]
Escalator
I came across this escalator when Somerset 313 first opened. And immediately I noticed how the handle was ergonomically higher than the usual escalator around Singapore. But why?! I think they got the wrong size, they imported in the western sized escalator rather than the asian sized one. haha.
Go head down Somerset 313 and try [...]
Counter Thinkers
“Counter Thinkers are people who have a strong mental thought process that gets them to question everyday life, which mould their perception of things to individuals and the whole universe. And it all begins with a curious mind. A beautiful one of course.
It begins with you. Don’t you ever wondered how your mind works? I [...]
Becareful
When I came across this, I smiled. I don’t know why, but it made me think. It made me realise that people actually thought about it, thought about the problem and try to devise a solution. Somehow, that person actually took up the role of a designer, in trying to get into the head of [...]
Subtly Influencing
You must have seen these signage on the floor plenty of times. This was a shot taken of the older MRT platforms. Have you ever wondered what was it meant for?
I’m assuming it is designed to let the train commuters to keep to the side of the doors, so that they do not obstruct the [...]
Double-Deck Bus Layout
I rambled about this a year back I think. Well I frequent SBS buses and I was used to this homely, soft colors and cozy feeling that the buses gave me. I guess I’ve always felt that way towards SBS buses as compared to TIBS buses, which most that I come across have this very [...]
MRT POLES
As mentioned in my Sketchbook post, I’d be uploading stuff from my sketchbook, up here. So this is one of them! MRT Poles! I’ve had this jotted down a year back actually but yes lets talk about the Poles!
Don’t you get pissed off when you can’t grab on the pole because the anonymous has his [...]
Senseable City
I was recently invited to a conference by Oliver Senn, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) about a project they’re gonna do in Singapore called Live Singapore.
It’s a close door kinda thing, so I’m not going to talk about that project much, but rather share with you guys about a project that they have done. A [...]
Service Design
I was at Tanjong Pagar with my friends, just chilling at this coffee place called Tom n Toms Coffee. I went up to the counter and ordered a mango smoothie. The counter lady gave me a receipt and on top of that a circular-spaceship-like object and told me to return to my seat. Subconsciously my [...]
DESIGN SAYS HELLO! OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED!
Design? from Design Says Hello on Vimeo.
This was how it started.
This documentary is a small project I initiated after the fact that I gotten irritated to how people see designers as someone of no significance. Be it a product designer or illustrators etc. when working with clients, they treat us as someone who just “make [...]
PRESS TO OPEN
So I was accompanying my cousin shopping, our hands were filled with shopping bags, and as we walked towards the glass door of Dorothy Perkins, we were taken a back because it didn’t open automatically. At our eye level there was this PRESS TO OPEN rectangular black button.(Just an off topic: My mind has 2 [...]
Prof Gorden Wagener; Mercedes-Benz/Daimler AG
I attended a design talk by Head of Design for Mercedes-Benz/Daimler AG, Prof Gorden Wagener, at Singapore Polytechnic recently with Eric and KC.
Here’s some of the things he said I thought were head nod-ers and eyebrow raisers.
“Design creates additional value.”
“Design = Money
70% design of the product
58% image of the brand”
“Design creates brand equity”
“The role of [...]
Way-finding in Marina Bay Sands
I was at Marina Bay Sands and was looking for some food places, and so me and a couple of my friends went to look through the map. If you were to look at it, they don’t tell us where we’re at. Like the usual “YOU ARE HERE” sign. It irritated me because I had [...]
Interaction Design
Eric shared with me this video. I feel its true about how learning about Interaction Design makes us more aware and more anal about design. “It ruins your life!” haha. Somehow we get irritated by ourselves because we will notice a bad design (more aware) or even a small change in any design we interact [...]
Hierarchy Of Consumer Needs
I came across this book called “The Pursuit of Pleasure” by Lionel Tiger 1992. Lionel is a Canadian-born, American based anthropologists who came up with a useful way to classify PLEASURE. Now I believe this is important as designing pleasurable products is the new challenge for human factors.
But before that let’s take a look at [...]
STARBUCKS CHAIR
I was at the Suntec City Starbucks outlet a year back (July 2009), and as I sat there doing my own work, I noticed the chair I was sitting on. And realised how genius it was.
Lets look at the design considerations for this chair:
Target Audience : For who ?
Form: What shape ?
Function: What is it [...]
MY BOOK OF DESIGN RANTS
So this is my A6 Sketch Book where I keep track of my rants on designs that gave me a bad experience. From experiences in train/bus rides, to observations I make, even notes I get from workshops, conferences and library books are all inside for my own reference.
It’s important for me to be able to [...]
Jens Franke/New Ways Of Interaction
http://vimeo.com/channels/newwaysofinteraction
“This channel is a collection of projects about newer ways of human and physical interaction, hosted by Jens Franke (jensfranke.com | twitter.com/jensfranke).
It features interactive installations and systems with a strong focus on technologies such as multi touch, tangible and gestural interfaces, augmented reality and physical computing.”
Don Norman/HCD
Don Norman !
http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/emotion_design.html
“Good human-centered design practices are more essential for tasks or situations that are stressful: distractions, bottlenecks and irritations need to be minimized.
In positive situations, people are much more likely to be tolerant of minor difficulties and irrelevancies. In other words, although poor designed is never excusible, when people are in a relaxed situation, [...]
UX
http://www.kickerstudio.com/blog/images/ux.jpg
Isn’t it amazing how UX (User Experience Design) encompasses almost all aspect of design?
Tim Brown/Design Thinking
It’s pretty content heavy but yes I guess the above summed up the whole document nicely.
For the full PDF of Design Thinking by Tim Brown, try this link :
http://surreycreativeacademy.pbworks.com/f/Design+Thinking+Tim+Brown.pdf
SCAMPER
Noise Singapore Workshop
Creative x 4 : Inspiration From All Angels
Christian Teniswood from FutureBrand shared with us his knowledge of lateral thinking approach.
He started off the workshop by asking us whether we have met any creative-born people who can give a brilliant creative idea in just a few seconds with regards to any design problem. And [...]
THE DESIGN SOCIETY CONFERENCE 2010
http://thedesignsociety.org.sg/
The aim of this conference was to let the average businessman to be design literate. Means to be able to understand where we designers are coming from. Here are some insightful quotes from the speakers
“The medium is the message” – Jay Phua from 10AM Communications
“Design for people,
Share meaningful stories,
Created for differentiation,
Stimulate emotions” – 10AM Communications
“Visual [...]
Design Thinking Symposium
“Design Thinking can be seen as both a creative process as well as a way of thinking that produces human-centered design and transforms organizations through innovation to drive business success. It is characterized by a culture that encourages the generation of ideas to resolve problems or issues withoug fear of judgement. Collaboration, abductive thinking and [...]
SAVE YOURSELF
It’s interesting how, a friend of mine was sharing with the class about this interesting topic he just read about. It was about the over crowded typical saving the Earth campaigns.
Well I guess, these campaigns keep emphasizing on how we can save the Earth, things like switching off the lights for an hour, or recycle [...]