Norman,“Emotion & Design: Attractive things work better”
I agree with the author’s ideas on balancing design and practicability when designing objects. From my personal experience, I know how frustrating it is when I am in a hurry and something doesn’t work. I was doing a group assignment and the final step was to finalize everything and put our final elements together and format them. However, the formatting software was extremely difficult to use. It wasn’t until I almost finished everything that it told me I needed to use paid methods to finish the export. I was so stressed that I did what they wanted and paid a subscription because the deadline was getting near. In the end, the task was finished. But it was after that I realized I didn’t use the paid method at all. It was only advising me to pay the subscription because it thought I might need the method. That is how I realized that in stressful situations, certain designs can serve different purposes and lead the user to do certain stuff they might not have done without the pressure. If there had been no pressure when I was exporting the project, I would have read what it said more carefully and thought about whether I needed the subscription. Therefore from my perspective, I agree with the author’s idea that emotions affect design, and for a design to be easy to use in stressful situations, all functions should have clear implications on how they should be used.
Her Code Got Humans on the Moon
After reading the article, I have great respect for Margaret Hamilton. At a time when men dominated the tech industry, Mrs Hamilton, as a working mother, achieved much that other men could have never thought of. Also, at the crime, coding was much harder than it is today. These days coding can be done with languages that have syntax pretty close to human language that’s easy for people to understand. However, at that time, coding was “punching holes in punchcards”. The difficulty and the stress of being responsible for developing a manned spacecraft are insane and unthinkable. Her achievements were outstanding enough, and the environments in which she got those achievements added to the greatness of her work. I have nothing but respect and awe for this woman.