Reading Reflection: Where does the “Natural” Come from in Natural Design?

This week’s CGT512 reading chapter1 of “The Design of Everyday Things” by Donald Norman emphasizes natural design. For example, doors have to be designed with proper visual clues so that people will naturally know which side to open and close the door, as well as to pull or push the door. I understand that for relative simple …

UI Enabling Both Associations and High-Level Categorization

In the last class of CGT512 (a HCI and UX class I’m taking this semester), when we discuss about the history of GUI, we briefly mentioned the Memex microfilm viewer described by Vannevar Bush in 1945. Memex reminds us that human brain works with associations and links rather than alphabetical orders or clearly defined categories. I’ve been …