Don Norman on 3 ways good design makes you happy | Video on TED.com

Don Norman on 3 ways good design makes you happy | Video on TED.com

My reflection:

In this video, Don Norman conveys a good views of how design of a product should consider its beauty, functionality as well as how it can creates story for the people who use it. This video gives me an insights of how a product can be attractive and innovative eventhough it doesn't function to what we expected.

Norman expresses that the emotion of the users plays a very important role to the success of its design. We as users are often affected by our subconscious feeling that cleverly set by the designers. Though it is not a new concept, as a designer, this is very helpful thing to be always reminded that we should design a product that creates happy and emotional attach to the users as it fits better to the society.

The example that Norman shows in his video about the table tennis table that are projected (so that it looks like an aquarium) conveys a real fact that people care more about the fun and pleasant experience that the products can create rather than its normal functionality, because as we can see, it is surely not a good way of playing table tennis but people loves it because it creates pleasant experience in an unusual way. but on the other hand, i am personally not persuaded because as a user i would feel the lacking of design which then lower the sense of fun and emotional pleasure.

Moreover, Norman's video has encouraged me to be a designer that consider small details and how to creatively improve every small elements to create a fun, pleasant, and innovative products. His argument of how pleasant things can work better reminds me of how apple company has a very simple design, however its success shows that people love the experience that the apple products can create.

As an industrial designer, it will be good if we are not neglecting this truth, but instead use this fact to help us improve the design of products that already exist in society.

At the end, Human emotions(subconscious mind, behavioural, reflective behaviour) shows that the reason why people buy the products is to fulfill their needs in wanting to control different situations and feelings.
For example: people wants to buy a potato masher, so that they can mash their potatoes easily. moreover, people want a good design and comfortable handle for their potato masher. Because not only, they want to have control on things, the users also want a sense of pride and belonging that may not be consciously felt by them but there's always small voice at their head telling these things.

Finally, there are so many strange designs that we as normal human may not be understand why the designers design it, but the stories and concept behind all designs can change the whole design. In the end, people accept the stories behind a design.

I love paper quiling

Quilling or paper filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs. The paper is wound around a quill to create a basic coil shape. The paper is glued at the tip and the coil shaped, these shaped coils are arranged to form flowers, leaves, and various ornamental patterns similar to ironwork.

it's becoming my new hobby i guess and from this simple technique we can make so many nice things including cards, scrapbooks =)

Wood Digital Radio

yeayy my last project for this semester! thank God i finish it...it was such a tiring and yet interesting journey of cutting, sanding, painting, sanding and sanding and sanding experience ;)

so here's my radio =D

;0and here is the mess we made! hehe the evidence of us working hard ;)

finally, Happy Holidays everyone!!!

Visiting Power House museum

It was a coincidence i guess, coz i actually went to Powerhouse museum on the weekend before uni started and when i was given the design passport to do, i was like" yes, i've done 1 dot point!"

so yeah i went there on the 5th March 2011 and it was a pleasant experience i guess since this is my first time visiting museum in Australia in my 4 years of staying here.

I saw many interesting things there, like the evolution of various products from time to times, the old replica of old Australian transportation such as old central stations and also past technologies and how it's tranforming into an innovative products which successfully attracts the society.

i also saw some of the innovative designer's project such as Ettore Sottsass carlton cabinet

it's such a pity i forgot to bring camera :s so i can only tell the story....sorry guys! i might visit powerhouse museum again and take heaps of pictures there

Our Spin storyboard

The ideas of our storyboard of spinning Mr. blob!

Design Passport

Here is the picture of my design passports....

I hope i can be as good as Piranesi...

This is my nearly finished Piranesi drawing...it was a really challenging project especially for me, since i am not good at drawing...but i did try hard and quite proud of it eventhough i know other people can do soo much better than mine...

i was actually quite enjoying the whole process except to draw the outlines structure of how the image is going to be. since i know i wouldn't be able to draw the right perspective, i decided to turn the piece into a picture book

so here is my FINAL piranesi drawing...