Week 4 Writing Assignment – Aakif

I don’t know what to say about this reading. It just gave a really good explanation on how things should be designed and what factors to be considered in addition to establishing a lexicon for understanding design for these objects.

I think one thing that I noticed was that he mentioned how as technology improves, it will become more difficult to understand technology, but at the same time it will make it easier to understand technology because of technology. This is true today. As it is quite difficult to understand today’s mobile devices by older people. It requires one to have a familiarity with technology from a young age or have followed the development of technology over the past few years. It almost if new devices have a barrier to entry, and the threshold is quite high. But at the same time it is so much easier to do such complicated tasks in such a short time if you get the hang of it.

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