Perception

I had been working with my brothers on sgBEAT these past few months, and I had avoided writing about it because we hadn’t gone into public Beta yet.
sgBEAT is essentially a microblogging platform specifically dedicated to Singaporeans, where users can share updates of their lives via the Web or SMS. Another aim of our [...]

Tags: Design, sgBEAT, Twitter, Whisk Technologies

The lessons for the term are over, and in NM2216 Introduction to Interactive Media Design, I learnt about design concepts more pertinent to an interactive interface itself. What I learnt before the mid-semester break was mostly about design dimensions, and this time around the topics were more interesting yet challenging to understand.
Affordances and Constraints
The second [...]

Tags: Design, Design Concepts, Interactive Media Design, NM2216

I had quite a fancy for grunge designs since a few years back, similar to the kind of art found in Linkin Park’s albums. Such design did influence me to a certain extent, and was reflected in areas of my life like fashion and clothing. I suppose that liking could have been considered part of the [...]

Tags: Design, Grunge, Interface, Minimalist

This post is briefly what has been covered in NM2216 Introduction to Interactive Media Design so far this term, and for the project for this module we’re required to design around the dimensions covered here. Namely, these dimensions are purpose, users, activity, context and multimodalities.
Purpose
The purpose of one’s product is important in aligning the focus [...]

Tags: Design, Design Dimensions, Interactive Media Design, NM2216

One of the modules that I’m taking this semester is Introduction to Interactive Media Design (NM2216), and this module is actually a prerequisite of another that I initially wanted to take. As it turns out, this module hasn’t been all that fun or exciting that I had hoped it to be, and in fact the [...]

Tags: Design, Interactive Media Design, NM2216