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Design For Future Discourse: Creating The Speculative Design-Inspired Exhibition Modulation: Rewiring The Self, Ryan Bridgforth

Honors College Theses

Humans have long combined speculation and design. Early examples like General Motors’ Futurama at the 1939 World’s Fair introduced Americans to the idea of expressways and invited them to imagine possible futures. While intriguing, this mix of design and future thinking stood to benefit corporations overall, which is where speculative design comes in. Pioneered by design duo Dunne & Raby, speculative design uses design not as a way to engineer solutions to difficult problems, but “as means to explore the cultural and technological potentials of design, effectively blurring material and conceptual boundaries” (Mitrović et al. 2021, 175). Designing objects or …

Ddx173.1 Ux-Report Example 9, Sae University College

Exemplars

In this project, the student conducted a UX evaluation of an existing website. Employing a design thinking framework, the student identified areas for usability improvement. The goal was to enhance the user experience through a systematic and human-centred design approach. The results of this approach are summarised in this UX report.

Ddx173.2 Ux Design: Ui Design - Nail Spa Example 1, Sae University College

Exemplars

The work showcases how the website's user interface (UI) design responds to the findings of the user experience (UX) report and improves its usability.

Ddx173.2 Ui User Interface Presentation Example 5, Sae University College

Exemplars

In this project, the students employ a design thinking framework approach to showcase how the visual design of their responsive website aligns with the findings of a user experience report. The aim is to explain how the design choices have enhanced the overall user experience of the existing website.

Ddx173.2 Ui User Interface Presentation Example 4, Sae University College

Exemplars

In this project, the students employ a design thinking framework approach to showcase how the visual design of their responsive website aligns with the findings of a user experience report. The aim is to explain how the design choices have enhanced the overall user experience of the existing website.

Ddx173.1 Ux-Report Example 6, Sae University College

Exemplars

In this project, students conducted a UX evaluation of an existing website. Employing a design thinking framework, the student identified areas for usability improvement. The goal was to enhance the user experience through a systematic and human-centred design approach. The results of this approach are summarized in this UX report.

Dimensional Dialogues, Farida Abousteit

Masters Theses

Dimensional Dialogues, a multi-installation series, offers us a place to interact with language in a way that is whimsical and transcends our need to understand and comprehend language. We remove the tensions of language barriers by finding beauty and personal connection to typography, now scaled up to a human scale and reacting in real time to our movements. A process begins from ancient practices of designing Arabic Calligraphy, to creating Graphic Outputs of that calligraphy, to technologically heavy and new works in creating 3D models of these works that can be projected and respond to human movement. These installations, in …

Dimensional Dialogues, Farida Abousteit

Masters Theses

What does it mean to be, hear, interpret and understand language? And does it truly matter if we don't? This work explores linguistic translation and mistranslation, through the exploration of three-dimensional and interactive spaces that to create an opportunity to interact with language as an visual and felt environment; rather than language on a page or the spoken word.

When we stand next to typography, next to language, scaled up to a human-sized presence, do we find an immediate kinship and warmth towards it? Do we find ourselves more captivated and intrigued?

I believe that when we encounter the unfamiliar …

Ddx173.2 User Centrerd Design: Ui Design Example 1, Sae University College

Exemplars

The presentation showcases how the website's user interface (UI) design responds to the findings of the user experience (UX) report and improves its usability.

The Perfect Model: Exploring Gender Differences Within Commercial Graphic Design Preferences, Adeline Roberts

Undergraduate Theses

Personal preferences within graphic design are heavily shaped by social factors, including cultural practices. This project explores the effect of gendered-based experiences on visual design preferences, through investigating men’s and women’s preferences regarding graphic design elements, and the source of these opinions. The data was then used to create two educational images, which mimic contemporary magazine covers, visually illustrating the effects of gendered marketing and experiences on personal design preferences. These images were then attached to an interactive website, so that the findings and pieces from this project can be easily accessed by future audiences.

Ddx173.2 User Centred Design: Ui Design Example 2, Sae University College

Exemplars

The presentation showcases how the website's user interface (UI) design responds to the findings of the user experience (UX) report and improves its usability.

The Space Between, Alexander Dixon

Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations

The Space Between investigates the intricate relationship between perception and reality. By integrating graphic design principles with the optical qualities of glass, the exhibition creates visual distortions that challenge and redefine our understanding of the world. The pervasive use of black throughout the exhibition signifies the vectorized image, a vital element of graphic design and the technological abyss prevalent within our society. The fundamental geometric shapes, coupled with minimalist sculptural forms, employ a graphic approach to highlight visual communication's influence on perception.

Graphic design has a history of shaping public perception. The basis of graphic design is the act of …

Access In Ambiguity, Moritz Lónyay

Masters Theses

The wealth of color present in nature has long been a major source of inspiration for works of art and design. Yet as more species become extinct due to habitat loss, climate change and unchecked hunting, will we face a less colorful, more monotonous future? How will this impact art and design and how could either be utilized as tools to counteract the loss of color? This thesis speculates upon such a future by the sixth wave of mass extinction and instigates a movement that celebrates color. Growing up in the Anthropocene, the first geological epoch in which human existence …

[Un]Seen, Al Benbow

Honors Projects

[un]seen is a community-centered project and installation that consists of a collection of portraits and statements from underrepresented members of the LGBTQ+ community. Each subject submits their own action item that depends on their identity and response to the question, “what do you wish people understood about the experience of being [your identity]?”

This project was initially born out of research into the commodification of LGBTQ+ identities, and the realization that corporations tend to market to members of the LGBTQ+ community who they believe have the most spending power: white, cisgender, able-bodied, upper class, gay men, and therefore most often …