Interface Design

Computer, this is one of the most important products for our lives, and it has become to one necessary product to develop anything today. People use the computer for a work, amusement, and creation. But how so many people began to use the computer even though it is the most high technological product. There is one tool which became an icon of the computer, the user interface.
At the first, the computer had only keyboard to input the command twenty years ago; the user types letters usigng the keyboard and the computer plogram was needed to typed perfectly, but the most people who were using the computer were engineer in reality. When more people such as office workers began to use the computer, one famous interface product came out, mouse. The desktop computer, AppleⅡ was the first computer, which has the mouse, and caught many users that were not only office workers, but also general people, and the mouse became an icon of computer. While the mouse is used every computer, and computer developers have tried to explore new interface, since the mouse is not perfect interface design after all.
There are some users who use the computer for specific purpose; painters and fine artists are good examples to it. Generally they use brushes for painting, and some of them tried to scan their works and retouch using the computer, but the mouse was not good method for their works. Some company focused it and finally they reached to produce the pen tablet. It has enabled to artists paint their art works on the computer directly.
Studying from these successes, the developers started to think if the idea of those interface design can be applied to controlling three dimensionally. Because of those interface design are only available for two-dimensional aspects, the next step was how to interface in three-dimensional way. Recently, new interface product came out, which has 2-3 arms and a pen tool in the point. The user holds the pen and brushes or carves three-dimensional object directly, and some feedbacks from the interface, in detail, the user can feel sense of resistance like touching the object by a hand from the interface.
According to this history of the interface design for computing, it can be said that the interface design indicates the human needs a sense of reality. As an evidence of it, now the developers trying to find the way to how communicate and connect between the computer and real object. There is one product, which can be said a good example of connection between computing and reality, iPod touch and iPhone by Apple company. Both of them have a wide big screen, which occupies almost top surface, and an amazing point is its interface method. The user just touch the finger tip on the screen directly, and when the finger tip slides left, right, up, and down, the screen moves as the finger tip moves like a turning a page of note book. Whatever tactual sense is a hard plastic, this really similar action to the reality, and this attracts millions of people now.
In my opinion, the product design for interface never end its development. In the imagination of the computer in the future, people might be attracted, and also interface design might change to more interactively more than ever. The process of developing the product for interface is very similar to the other product design such as like exploring how people can use the product simply and directly as much as possible. The interface design can be said exactly applicable to that process.

The Desk

Usually the primary products such as a pen, chair, desk , light and bed, and they have, or we have a basic idea of their form, for example, desk has a four or three legs and one flat panel on the legs. Nobody can imagine exactly same form, same color, and same material, but everyone might imagine those basic ideas. I think those products are necessary and integrated into our everyday life. This reading reminds me that daily product, which is an element of the life can be changeable to variety of form and altered to suit each environment. I could see a kind of derivation beyond one of common product, desk. Also this article shows desk has been changing its form and adding functions suiting each environment, every time when new technology come into our world, the desk also has changed such as the desk which has the place for the computer. However, one thing that I'm interested is the product which is not the desk, but it's related between desk and human, Personal Skies by Naoto Fukasawa. I have an opinion about it, one is this challenging affects to the products which suit to the technology. Many of desks are well thought about how the user use the desk through their purpose. However, Personal Skies is focused on the emotion of the user using the projector, and this gives a mellow feeling or relaxation to the user. I think, the psychological effect is a new root of design the desk. Through the reading, one says the desk memorizes what the user did, the other says the desk could be a multipurpose and be in anywhere. Then I thought, what the people feel beyond their purpose, I felt there's something losing and this could be one of design topic.

Reading;Myth Plastic

I think the position of plastic in hierarchy of material is not specified since its property of use. There are varieties of material in the world such as glass, stone, metal, cray, paper, fabric, and plastic. Each material has a merit and demerit in each situation. However, the plastic has a diverse of use, because the plastic can be transformed easily and treated as a solid material after transforming, also the plastic can be used as a fabric, so it can be used for the clothes. Moreover, some kinds of the plastics has an impact resistance even though it's can be a soft and light material. A lot of merits of the plastic actualize many product easier. However, those great merits make the plastic to be lower position in the material hierarchy, because the plastic is reasonable and cheep. The most of material, which is used in the product is the plastic, people use them a lot in households but they don't use them in their special goods such as a accessory, dress, and luxual product, because the people don't want to use a cheep and reasonable material so much in their life. In other words, the people want to use expensive and rare material so that they feel rich. Finally I thought we indicate that "plastic" is lower level material.

New York Map Project

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Map Project1

zbrush part6 Texturing

The amazing point of Zbrush is that not only the user can paint on the surface of object directly, but also draw a bump texture. Usually 3D software allows adding a bump map texture using monotone colored image, but Zbrush doesn't need to generate bump map texture because it modifies the object directly. (modifying 3D polygons directly). I drew spots and skin details on this object, but this is only for head part sculpting. I prepared another texture for the full body sculpting.

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