Day 8: October 25th,2010

Today was definitely one of the duller days of class. Many of my classmates seemed inattentive and definitely were not fully awake. I was no different. Unfortunately, I had to be at work at 6am that same morning and the idea of my brain focusing for 2 and a half hours just didn't seem possible. But as the class slowly dragged on I became a little more focused but couldn't form my lips to respond to any of Jimmy's literal, or complex questions. But I was able to take notes and therefor I am able to attempt and complete this post ha ha. Jimmy asked us would we rather start the class watching a movie or having a discussion and of course we all chose movie, yet we started the class with a discussion.

We discussed the word iterative which means the act of repeating a process usually with the aim of approaching a desired goal, target, or result.  Basically, a process of doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results which is actually the same definition of insanity.

(Taken from Google)

After a long discussion of iterative and kind of flipping between the study of anthropology, and sociology Jimmy put on a couple TED presentations. We watched John Maeda and Scott McCloud. John Maeda was a very interesting character. He is very a funny and brilliant man. He has an interesting way of viewing design and he is easily inspired by the simplicity of life. He creates intelligent, design that requires creativity and originality. He doesn't limit his ideas and seems unafraid to use a wide spectrum of media. I enjoyed his speech because it made me realize that you don't have to create only "safe" designs to be successful.

John McCloud is a comic book artist and though I didn't get as much out of his presentation as I did the other I thought it was really cool how he had pictures simultaneously flashing on the screen as he covered various topics. The pictures had direct connection to what he was saying and were at times very comical. His presentation was very visual and he had some interesting ideas.