WEEK 1

The first week of uni and straight into it!.. Suprisingly the first week and i'm already liking this subject. The lecture was interesting looking at new interactive medias and looking at how we can design elements to inform people creating a more informing, interactive environment. It was important to look at how people learn things and how people make things, looking at the way you want it to be and the way you want things to work before you design the actual place. This was a relatively new concept to designing and allows me to really focus on a more practical attitude towards design.
Some clever interactive creations displayed were: (1) An interactive traffic light that talks to you when you press it. It's not only exciting but also provides information (relatively useful) to the pedestrians crossing. another (2) included public displays of the energy performance of a building. I think this would be great to implement into some buildings so people walking past can really see how 'green' they really are. (3) was chairs at a bus stop which once two people are sitting down they rotate to cause the two people facing eachother, forcing on a conversation between the two travellers. Though this one i thought was abit too extreme it was a clever idea to make interaction. (4) Multi language screens at a bus stop would also be useful in some of the inner city bus stops as Australia is very multicultural and with the large amount of tourists in the city they would find it useful.
So basically, the interactive medias and innovative ways of causing interaction was an interesting idea that could be further looked at in my future endeavours. I need to look at DESIGN. UNDERSTANDING. STRATEGY and BEHAVIOUR.