INFO 440 - L18 - December 2, 2004
Notes By: SEE Crew
Ye Olde Project:

Present to peers for advice (Major)
be sure to solicit feedback during presentation (last chance during school, yo!!)
No snickering (Dan!!)
Don't get too stressed
Have some fun
What does design have to do with reality?

What is this picture?
Model
    > representation of the real thing
    > infinite number of details, but want important stuff
    > infers what is not important

Over Design or Over Engineering
    > putting way too much into the representation of something

Two of my favoriate jokes...
    > Joke #1
        -Engineer - Puzzle type
        -Software programmer  - Wicked problem type
        -Marketing person - single-solution problem type
    > Joke #2
        -Doing it your own way is not always ther best way to do things.
    > Joke #3 (OMG)
        -"i'm sorry students, it's turtles all the way down." wtf...

Guest Speaker Allen Matsumoto (http://www.uiarchitects.com/)
   > cross between artist and technologist...
   (A real Mac user would be using keynote...)

Design: The Science of Art...A visual communication discipline...What is it?
"It depends.."

Bob's Request (aka "the requirements")
    > What its like to eb a designer
    > What's cool
    > What isn't it
    > Straddling art and technology

A little background
    > "the 'art' guy" (in the technical town while growing up)
    > Technical enviroment ("Be an engineer")
    > Form followes funcyion design
    > Designer in the print world ("Pretty pictures!!")
        - Usually what the artist felt was cool that week
        - "Lipstick on a pig"
    > Led into UI ddesign (incorporates visual design, concentrates on interactions)

What's it like to be a designer?
    > What's cool about it:
        - Get paid to be creative
        - Work with great people (like guys with hairy chests) Hey!!
        - Satisfying problem solving
        - Learn to express colors in hexadecimal from memory
    > What's not:
        - Lot's of stress
        - Never finished
        - Everyone thinks that they are one ('specially artists)
        - Your brainchildren get kneecapped by Philistines
    > What do you mean by design?
        - Visual design
        - Systems design
        - UI design (architechture)
        - Hardware design

Design Process
    > User-centered throughout process
    > Gather & analyze user information
    > Iterative through Design / Prototype / Test

Set Business Goals -> Discovery and Analysis -> Design <-> Prototype <-> Test <-> Review <-> Design...

Comic strip on Design step
    > (1) blah, (2) "And then a miracle occurs", (3) answer
    > "i think you need to elaborate more on step 2"

Deconstructing the miracle    *we have a title now*
    > What makes a miracle?
        -Making the "Black box" transparent
    > Communication
    > Customers have mypoic worldview 
    > Art: intuitive understanding the cultural contexts of the messsage
    > Technology: The tools and medium used to communicate
    > a prior (prior to) technology, the best designers intuited all parts
        - Best designers know what to say to who to get it done
    > The best designers historically intuit all parts (didn't I just say that?)
    > Apply design process:
        - To supplement intuition
        - To reality check intuition
        - Intuition:Process ratio

Example: Visual Design Process
    > Deconstructing design: Visual Vocabulary
        - Forms, Typography, Colors, Images
            - Have conversation with people and extract attributes from transcript
            - Fit all four things above with emotions that resonates the attribute
                * Arial rocks!!
                * He picked verdana (no accounting for taste...)
                * At least it doesn't look like an HP product box
            - Offer backstory to convince stupid clients that like yellow
            - "prototype" will not show the message, but how the message will be displayed
#END#

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Anyone else see Boiko yelling at Aaron? I think he was playing WOW or something.
yeah... i wonder what he had up on his screen
forgot to hit the Boss key...
goatse.cx
lol I didn't see it, damnit


Anyone have any chapstick? I have carmex... if you want it
I have Burt's Bees.
BUT MY LIPS HURT REAL BAD! (you were supposed to say no)
GOD... IDIOT
A sHOT GUN, What else?
godz...
3 screens is not good enough. 
-- we know, check your email, lol
just reiterating
boooooooo
why am i always pink?
cause you're a pink kind of guy
change the color in the prefs, they're in the same place as ANY other Mac app
(he likes boys, that's why)
hey now, i like boys in a manly way.
that's what we're concerned about. the children are concerned as well.
has anybody called this yellow color yet?
not really, if they have we can setup a death match to decide the claimant.
Is Ryan trying to Pimp his webhost?
 :) Why would you say that CA?
 Oh - I'm just wondering---;)
ok, dreamhost.com  :D
GLOBAT!! GLOBAT!!!
they both suck.

I wanna ask him what his favorite hex color is
11EFBA
003366 or 99cc00
999999 <- boring grey, give it some flavor
696969 <- dark grey
133700 <- oh, wait, no, what does red and green make? yellow? in which case this would be nasty yellow, yup, nasty dark green/yellow mostly green, that's why I put green/yellow and not yellow/green
what about 013370 or 313370
my favorite hex: FA771E <- Orange a very noble color

Obviously he is not into print design otherwise it would have been CMYK values
Damn - AdiumX is not working!!! 
whoops - had to authenticate..
That'll do it