Week 03 Origination

At the beginning of today’s class we read through the intro and chapter 2 of the novel ‘The Laws of Simplicity’ by John Maeda.

Reading Quiz

Answer the following questions as succinctly as possible in your own words

1. What does the acronym SLIP mean according to Maeda?

• Sort
• Label
• Integrate
• Prioritize

2. Define each character of the acronym, S L I P in one sentence 
We need to sort out the tasks into groups according to the similarities, label them accordingly, integrate columns that are similar and prioritize the groups according to higher importance.

3. What does Maeda say is only a pinkie away?

"The path to simplicity is only a pinkie away"

4. Why is this important to us as designers?

It is important to use simplicity in our designs as it keeps it effective and easy on the eye.

5. What are the principles of gestalt psychological theory? 
Shape and form

6. Where might one find the aesthetics of blur? 
On an ipad. It has a lot of elements brought together into a simple functional recourse. 


Reference: http://gadget.featster.com/search/ipad2-griffin/

7. Why is blur important in interactive design? 
It brings many tasks together into one which provides simplicity. I would love for this to occur to the CS5 Adobe program so that we dont have to jump from program to program :)

8. Why do good designers squint when they look at something?
To have perspective of what the overall image by cancelling out detail. It simplifies the design into simple shapes and colours.

                                                                                                               

Thinking Game – work in pairs / swap tasks

Perspectives

In the below exercise adopt 4 different perspectives and describe 4 different interpretations of each of the following non-verbal communications. Write the results directly into your blog.

1. A person nods his/her head up and down

- Agreeing

- Accepting

- Approving

- Listening to music

2. A person’s lower lip trembles slightly

- Scared

- Cold

- Nervous

- Sighing

3. A person smiles slightly

- Appreciation

- Sarcastic smile

- Reminiscing

- Laughing quietly

4. A person yawns

- Bored

- Tired

- Mocking

- Naturally yawning

- Contagious yawn

5. A person shrugs his/her shoulders

- Is not sure about something

- Don’t care

- Michael Jackson style dancing

- Stretching

6. A person inhales quickly

- Startled/ Scared

- Catching Breath

- Hic-Ups

- Shocked

Youtube Video

 

Video Commentary

Above is a video on body language. There is a lot of examples of body language we use and the reasons why we do them. This video explains them well and gives good descriptions of where and when we use them. Some of them are quite funny! It was quite interesting to notice the things that we quite naturally do and realize the humor in why we do it. Some however where a bit exaggerated and uncommon.

Idea Generation

•             LAST WEEK: Formulate a Plan based on the tasks from last week

•             THIS WEEK: New Groups

GROUP ACTIVITY:

1. Collate all lists

2. Reduce the list to a practical level

3. Assign groups and populate with students

4. Timeline development

reference: photo of the lists created on the class whiteboard.

The groups I assigned myself to were the invitations, branding and theme/ design.

xoRachxo

Please insert at least 2 IMAGES and ONE YouTube link in your blog to support

your discussion and reflection.