This article explores a new way of accessing art museums. Particularly, through a digital interface, allowing users to view art in a different way. The issue is, does viewing art through a web-based platform convey the same real-life experience that physically going to the museum does? This modern world is very digitally driven and using these interfaces are seen as being more effective and useful. They use an example with the Kara Walker exhibition, and how people saw her work through Instagram so they felt no need to actually go to the exhibit. In doing so, viewers only get a subjective viewing of art through a digital interface. Visiting museums allows the viewer to see through their perspective and not someone else’s.

This subject also opens up the discussion for experiencing art through other mediums. Many museums have some sort of gift shop, where they sell reproductions of art in poster form or miniature sculptures. This gives viewers a way to get the art experience outside of the museum. The MoMa has different design locations throughout the city, selling hip, modern-design objects, gifts, housewares & art books. Just like through the digital interface, do stores convey the same real-life museum experience?

The article begins by introducing and explaining the idea of the cloud and how it came into use. It was a little difficult to actually grasp this abstract idea and understand the how it actually works and what it means. Throughout the article there was a series of graphics to explain different concepts and situations, but personally made things even more confusing. The article goes on to further describe that use of the cloud means that your data falls under the  jurisdiction of the Patriot Act. Furthermore meaning that the information that we have on our computers, tablets, mobile devices, etc. is available for the government to surveillance.

There really is no way to stop these actions of all of your personal information to be inspected unless we stop using the devices all together. It seems that many people have an understanding of these actions, but people still continue to use these electronic devices. Does the the patriot act really pose a threat or issue to the American public? Are people really willing to give up their complete privacy in order to be digitally connected to the world?

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This article explores the idea that more and graphic designers are becoming “conservative and fiscal-minded times” with their work. Graphic designers are using Default Systems within their work as the standard, which is creating sameness within graphic design and unoriginality. It is not so much that Default Systems are negative, but more of that those who use it are not aware or do not understand its functionality. The article is very interesting because it forces you to analyze what graphic design is today.

In some ways Default Systems seem to be integrated in curriculums of design institutions. From experience professors teach courses using industry standards and don’t encourage much creativity. Thousands of designers enter the workforce every year, and with the idea of Default Systems being taught, resulting in a uniformity and monotony in graphic design.

 

1. Edmund Yu – UI/UX Designer

2. a. Edmund has worked for Bloomz, Global Scholar, UX CardSort, Just for Fun, Microsoft, and Vizrea.

b. Edmund attended The Art Institute of Seattle, and his first position in UX was at Vizrea/ WebFives. Edmund has ten years of experience.

c. Edmund uses skills like prototyping, content management, design leadership, team management, user management, account management, data visualization, and user centered design.

d. Edmund uses Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Flash, Balsamiq, HTML/ CSS5, Java, JQuery, Just in Mind, Blender 3D, and Angular JS.

e. Not mentioned.

3. Edmund works with Bloomz as head of product design and manages the wire framing, prototyping, visuals, and interaction for the website. The site is very user-centered and has a clean layout and graphics. The platform is also very straightforward and color palette is consistent throughout all digital platforms. The platform is used for teachers and parents to communicate, and it communicates very well to both parties on how to use the platform without any difficulties.