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In my 7th year of engineering education, I started this blog. Many people asked me: Given so many years of engineering training and great career prospects, why design?

I love technology, but love even more the enriching effect of technology on people. I have seen so many talented people who devoted on fascinating products, but failed to let people appreciate how fascinating they are; and so many diligent researchers who worked out long-standing unsolved problems after years' work, but lost their audience/followers in tedious, unintuitive communication. I can't help noticing the so many imperfections in the life, while observing people, talking to people, and understanding people; I can't help brainstorming better ways to solve the problems, and discussing with people to see if they fit their needs. And that happens to be the duty of an UX designer.

This is a blog recording the ideas emerging from our everyday lives, including design critique, need finding, ideation and basic prototyping. Your questions and comments are warmly welcomed!

Tuesday, December 8, 2015

Turn on the lamp. Don't try twice!



Confusing gearwheel rotation direction

This desk lamp uses a gearwheel as the on/off switch.  It turns on if it is rotated in a particular direction, and turns off if rotated further in the same direction. Nothing catastrophic happens if rotated in the wrong direction. But.. I never remember the right direction!

[Redesign] Directly manipulated lamp switch

The switch is hidden inside the lamp cover. Intuitively, we open the cover to turn on the light, close the cover to turn it off.
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