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2 Designer for ~20 years Design Educator for 10+ years DAVE GOTTWALD Assistant Professor Art + Design

3 Interaction Design for Mobile Devices (UI / UX) Experiential Design for the Built Environment DAVE GOTTWALD Assistant Professor Art + Design

4 Operational Metaphors & Input Biases of Design Software OLD PROMISES, NEW CHALLENGES (fancy-sounding abstract title)

5 UCDA 2017 Hand & Machine OPERATIONAL METAPHORS Where Mind Meets Software INPUT BIASES (POINTING / DRAWING) Where Hand Meets Machine

6 How students should best think about the design software they use. What input hardware students should use to best interface with that software.

7 UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO Art + Design Students lie on a gradient between two poles.

8 Analog Artisans

10 Analog Artisans THE TRADITIONAL FINE ART STUDENT Likely had Art Ed in primary school and onward (drawing, painting, sculpting, etc.) Learned to create works directly by hand Computer literate, but don t view the computer as a default content creation device

11 Digital De Factos

13 Digital De Factos THE COMPUTING STUDENT Less likely to have had Art Ed in school Often have a long history of PC or platform gaming Consider the computer to be a natural, default creative content device

14 Consider your students along this gradient. Analog Artisans Digital De Factos Where do they lie? Where does most of your program lie?

16 What do I mean by Operational Metaphors?

17 We use metaphors to understand new things in the terms of the older thing that came before. Horseless Carriage

21 Horseless Carriage

23 But these metaphors can lose their relevance. It can get a bit out of hand. An easy example is scale.

24 37 Million Horsepower!!!!

26 40 Million Candlepower!!!!

28 Watch out for when metaphors shift in relevance.

29 Operational Metaphor The software works like this other, older thing.

31 Operational Metaphor Microsoft Word WORD PROCESSOR

35 Operational Metaphor Microsoft Excel SPREADSHEET

38 ART 216 Digital Tools Introduction to the fundamentals of both bitmap and vector editing, and designing in 2D.

39 Adobe CC Suite

41 Canvas

45 Artboard

49 Page

52 These metaphors are not perfect. So let s make some adjustments.

53 Canvas

55 Collage

57 Content is applied in layers. Content hangs off the edges until trimmed (cropped).

60 CollageMaker (which you can also edit photographs with)

61 Artboard

65 Sketch Pad

67 Artwork and images are often traced using layers (like vellum). Each artboard is a draft.

68 DrawingMaker (which you can also incorporate images into)

69 Page

71 Plane

72 Plane ANY two-dimensional surface

73 Master page templates are ideal for rapid prototyping. Effective layout tool for all variety of print and digital media.

74 ASSEMBLAGES and DRAWINGS of KRIS KUKSI ART 370 Project 01

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TAP BACK BUTTON GRAY ICONS SHOW PREVIOUSLY VISITED PLACE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN SELECT AN ICON WOMAN IN CLOTH Kuksi cuts and reshapes old objects, small toys, mechanical components

The artist describes these as mixed media that are melded by a flowing composition and visual balance.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN ROOSEVELT In personal reflection, I feel that in the world today much of mankind is oftentimes a frivolous and fragile being driven primarily by greed and materialism.

Then I join that with an opposite of flowing graceful, harmonious, and pleasing design of the Baroque and Rococo. And of course I add a bit weirdness and the macabre.

I had such a major emphasis in painting and drawing earlier in my career, and had a great time with it but I always felt something was missing.

77 TAP BACK BUTTON GRAY ICONS SHOW PREVIOUSLY VISITED PLACE ABRAHAM LINCOLN ABRAHAM LINCOLN SELECT AN ICON WOMAN IN CLOTH Kuksi cuts and reshapes old objects, small toys, mechanical components and other parts and refashions them into works of art that bear little resemblance to the original appearance. A wide range of materials are utilized, including model parts, wood and metal. The artist describes these as mixed media that are melded by a flowing composition and visual balance. Kuksi s work often combines images in disconcerting ways, such as Churchtank which merges images of religion and warfare. ABRAHAM LINCOLN ROOSEVELT In personal reflection, I feel that in the world today much of mankind is oftentimes a frivolous and fragile being driven primarily by greed and materialism. ABRAHAM LINCOLN TAP TO SPEAK TEXT LINCOLN I get inspired by the industrial world, all the rigidity of machinery, the network of pipes, wires, refineries, etc. Then I join that with an opposite of flowing graceful, harmonious, and pleasing design of the Baroque and Rococo. And of course I add a bit weirdness and the macabre. It s all about how I see the evolution of what man makes his created environment look like. I had such a major emphasis in painting and drawing earlier in my career, and had a great time with it but I always felt something was missing. ABRAHAM LINCOLN COLOR My art speaks of a timelessness; potentiality and motion attempting to reach on forever, and yet pessimistically delayed; forced into the stillness of death and eternal sleep. I treat morbidity with a sympathetic touch and symbolize the paradox of the death of the individual by objective personification of death. There is a fear of this consciousness because it drops in upon us without mercy, and yet there is a need to appeal to it in order to provide a sense of security, however deluded that sense may be. ABRAHAM LINCOLN TAP TO SELECT

80 Plane ANY two-dimensional surface

81 Plane Presentation Deck!

83 LayoutMaker (combining text, illustrations, and photos into compositions)

84 Adobe CC Suite

85 Adobe CC Suite

86 What do I mean by Input Biases? Adobe CC Suite

87 Keyboard Mouse Tablet + Stylus Trackpad Touchscreen Adobe CC Suite

88 Strong bias towards keyboard shortcuts + mouse input workflow. Original Mac bias of the 1980s and early 90s. Adobe CC Suite

91 A laptop trackpad is frustrating. A desktop trackpad can be workable.

93 A tablet + stylus can be very productive, if used in conjunction with the original biases of the software. (keyboard shortcuts + mouse)

94 We are in a transitional phase towards a truly touch / gesture environment.

95 We are in a transitional phase towards a truly touch / gesture environment. But we re not there yet. And Adobe knows this.

99 So we re not there yet. And Adobe knows this. Best practices for today s design students?

100 Consider your students along this gradient. Analog Artisans Digital De Factos

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102 In my experience, for most students... (your mileage will vary)

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SMART 3 IN 1 HOLLYWOOD PHOTOS: SETTING UP YOUR BOOTH FOR WEDDING/EVENT MODE Start the Hollywood Photo Booth program. Rightclick anywhere on the screen and choose Setup. Click Next until you get to Screen