Response 3

The readings this week was about the different design principles. Before we get started, I was initially pretty blown away, because I didn’t know that there were this any different design principles. I knew the term graphic design was a pretty broad term, but I did not know, when it comes down to the specifics, how broad it truly is. There is information architecture, UI and UX design, speculative design, interaction design, and so much more. What I found he most entertaining to read about are the UX design and the information architecture. When I heard the term UI/UX design, I thought that this was one thing but no. UI and UX are both different design principles. They go together but are different. Information architecture is a different story. I have never heard of this design principle. Information architecture  or IA design is a blueprint of the design structure which can be generated into wireframes and sitemaps go the project. I didn’t know that was a design principle on own. I thought that was just part of UX design. Speaking of that, the job of a UX designer is to use the information gathered by the IA designer and use that as a starting point. So that they could plan out the navigation system. I thought that this was very fascinating. I took the web and screen and the advance web and screen class with Kofi, and I never knew about this. The reading makes it this that these design principles are different designers doing each job, but in web and screen we were every part. We were the UI, UX, IA and the back end developer which is the nature of being a student I suppose.
Something else that I found interesting is the article by Robert Fabricant ‘Why Does Interaction Design Matter? Let’s Look at the Evolving Subway Experience’ For starters, of course interaction design is important. Not really knowing much about what all encompasses interaction design, I assume that these designer work with designing graphics that the public or a group of people will be interacting with. This is very important, because designers that focus in on this, to my knowledge, are very in tune to their audience. When reading the article, there were some very notable points that helped me better understand interaction deign. I very much liked the quote,“We still live with conventions born with the printing press.” What does the author mean by that? Well, the author is talking about feedback. Feedback, as it is stated in the article, is an integral and central part of interaction design. This is a callback or form of industrial design. Whenever any environmental signage goes out, the public will react to it. The interaction designers take that feedback and further better the experience for the user, like the ever evolving subway systems. Initially, the subways needed people, which clogged up the system, so over time, it became more and more automated which began to make the process a lot more efficient.