I invent five users help me to make the user testing about my website. I find some interesting things. First, all users always chick the first image that I post on my site. Then, they will choose the beautiful picture to look at, and user prefers like sample and shape image rather than project description. Fortunately, all users can send me a message through my contact page. Then, user tests my mapping self-mask work, they all play fun with it until one minus.

In this book, Tung-Hui Hu examines the gap between the real and the virtual in our understanding of the cloud. Hu shows that the cloud grew out of such older networks as railroad tracks, sewer lines, and television circuits. He describes key moments in the prehistory of the cloud, from the game “Spacewar” as an exemplar of time-sharing computers to Cold War bunkers that were later reused as data centers. Countering the popular perception of a new “cloudlike” political power that is dispersed and immaterial, Hu argues that the cloud grafts digital technologies onto older ways of exerting power over a population. But because we invest the cloud with cultural fantasies about security and participation, we fail to recognize its militarized origins and ideology.

Manifesto

1. Simple is more

I believe that less is more, so our goal is the term “Simple is software” is popularly miscued. Designing simple stuff doesn’t mean dumbed-down.

2. Cooperation

I believe our idea and inspiration, and we believe in not forcing us to work the way you think is right.

3. Similarities are the difference.

I believe that the aesthetics of most people are similar. For this reason, we focus on the similarities between users.

There are three goals that I wanted to achieve when I was designing and creating this album cover. The three ideas are simple is more, cooperation and the idea of similarities are the difference. These are the three cores of the album cover and is where I would like my audience to comprehend when they are looking at this album cover. I took a beautiful picture of the mountain and made it square-shaped. In the middle of the bottom layer is another image of the same mountain scene but it’s transparent which you could see through it, and it’s upside-down. On the upper part of the album cover, I put “travel the same road” this slogan in a simple white typography. The design of the album cover overall is straightforward but beautiful at the same time. It gives the audiences a sense of peacefulness in it. I didn’t use any fancy designs in this album cover, because I wanted to achieve the idea of “simple is more; less is more.” Sometimes, people would think more or deeper when they are looking at a simple piece of work than a super complicated or fancy piece of work. I believe simple is the core of beauty. The transparent feature corresponds to the idea of cooperation. The picture of the top layer seems to emerge from the bottom layer, and they mix and create a sense of harmony and beauty. Those two pictures are from the same beautiful mountain which pointed to the idea of similarities are the difference. Everyone travels the same road (as the slogan indicates) but in different ways in their lives. Each person reach the same ending but how do they look at their lives are different. That’s why I put the picture of the top layer up-side-down. The conception of this album cover took me about three days to consider. I looked up a lot of album covers and another type of arts online and even went to art museums to find inspirations. After looked large works of others and comprehended the ideas or cores behind those works, I finally decided the conception and the base of my album cover. It may make people confused if they looked up too many works from others in a short time, so I broke up the progress to three days. After I set my goal, I began to look up pictures that I wanted to use in my album cover. This took me about a day. I looked up a lot of images of mountains, valleys, and oceans but this picture captured my eyes at first sight, and I decided that this one is what I wanted to use. Then I used illustrator to achieve the transparency and up-side-down feature of my album. The slogan is where I spend lots of times because I believed that good typography could ascend my work to a higher level. The whole designing and creating process took me about five days. It was a fun process.

In this week, I read the book named “Notes on the Ontology of Design,” and the author is Arturo Escobar. The author presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design’s world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to the world. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an “autonomous design” that eschews commercial and modernizing aims in favor of more collaborative and place-based approaches. Such design attends to questions of environment, experience, and politics while focusing on the production of human experience based on the radical interdependence of all beings. Accessible to those who aren’t familiar with design theory and a valuable resource to anyone thinking about how we should go forward given the ecological crisis we face. There is no question we need to redesign society and Escobar provides a brilliant analysis of methodologies and insightful questions to think through as we do that.