Reflection Week 7: Design and the Human Condition This week’s class was on models and metaphors. We explored the difference between mental and conceptual models and how metaphors play a big part in design, whilst also delving into different philosophies behind these models and how they came into being.

Reflection Week 5: Design and the Human Condition This week’s class started off with a guest speaker; Arnab Chakravarty who started off by describing how he was an artist, designer and technologist but now aims to let go of all these labels and just exist or “be.” I found this…

Reflection Week 4: Design and the Human Condition In our fourth class of Design and the Human Condition, we talked about design and disability. How can we as designers be inclusive, progressive and thereby connected with our users to ensure universal design? According to Elise Roy who is a deaf…

Reflection Week 3: Design and the Human Condition This week’s class focused on affordances. This is something Interaction Majors studied last semester and so I was familiar with the terminology. Affordances refer to the relationship between an object and the person it relates to. They define what actions are possible…

Reflection Week 2: Design and the Human Condition The second class of Design and the Human Condition raised two very important questions for me about design’s distinction from art and how its impact creates a question of design responsibility. There is no question that design impacts us in social, political…

INTRODUCTORY CLASS REFLECTION The first class of design and the human condition made me think about design in a much more holistic way. The discussion on how design has expanded and grown in Pakistan was interesting as it made me think about the cultural, social and political contexts of design in a society…