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Universal Design

Good design is an important concern in the digital world. The rapid development of digital media has changed the market with a variety of information products of different quality. Many of the design are very effective but few designs fail to satisfy the need. Good design requires brilliant idea and deeper understanding. The role of designer is to design or create something should perform its function with less chance of a failure. So it is necessary to create product which are accessible to one population and also accessible to another disability people. E.g. ATM machine, to use web browser etc.

                             Sometime different disabilities require similar accommodations. Someone who is blind and someone who cannot use his or her hands both have difficulty using a mouse but support for speech output not only benefits blind users, but also to other. Web plays an important role in society and can make some tasks easier for people with disabilities. As disability terms varies from one country to another, person to person. Design half a product to one group and the other half of the product to another is not helpful. Sometimes a solution to a problem for one type of disability may cause a new problem for a person with another type of disability.

                                              Universal design is not only the design or trend but a process which helps with considering the needs of the user, people with disabilities apart from age, size, ability or disability. Universal design supports the social model of disability and its target to maximize the accessibility and usability of a product. Its benefits more people than older people and people with disabilities. Safety must be an essential consideration in the universal design process. The universal design works on the seven principles of development. It provides services equally to all users no separation of people with disabilities such as privacy, security, and safety should be equally available to all users. When providing flexible program, it means that people of all disabilities, visible and non-visible receive services needed. They makes the design or service easy to understand, regardless of the user’s experience, knowledge. Providing information in easy way, giving clear and easy instructions that can be understood by the people. Everyone can use the product comfortably to maintain a neutral body position and reduce continuous physical effort such things as disabled parking and accessible bathrooms. Beyond all these principles, it also means that staff is disability aware, communicate in a respectful manner with people of all abilities and are aware of the need. Designer should always be aware about this fact and realize their design it serve everyone.

Negative side of Facebook

FACEBOOK, what is Face book? I know it’s a stupid question but if we ask to different people there will be different answers. Teenagers would say; they can chat, make new friends, and find old friends on Facebook. Professionals would say; they can find the updates related to any company, any new brand, new software and many more. I would say Facebook is a social networking website.

Why I am discussing about Facebook because some people don’t know how to use or take advantage of a new technology. They are having a herd kind of mentality i.e. without knowing anything about that particular thing they just want to follow it because everybody is following it. I have seen students around me wasting their time on Facebook. Students miss their lectures because of the addiction of the games they play on Facebook and also because of chatting. Whenever they get time they just chat for hours and hours. Chatting till late night then wake up late, the whole schedule is affected by that and they don’t even realizing what they are losing. I myself get irritated when my roommates do that.

I agree that every technology has both positive and negative effects. But what I want to say is try to grab the positive ones.

Imagination has made technology

How technology would have been possible without imagination?

  Human mind has infinite capabilities and because of these capabilities Stone Age has turned into machine age. Our life is controlled by different kinds of technologies. You can say that our mind is a huge beast who is trapped inside a space like body and always eager to express itself with its imaginative feelings.  But an imagination needs a way to show its workings on the outside world. And then language is created so that mind can express itself directly. We have turned imagination into reality. 

Previously, human mind created things according to their needs, like whatever tools they needed, for harvesting, weaving, killings animals for food and many more. It was like converting mind thoughts into body actions. Now we are addicted to these machineries and still our mind is imagining more and more, and we are creating more and more new technologies.  Nobody knows when this mind will stop imagining, when we will feel that it’s enough now. 

In other words we can say that technology is using our mind to create new faces of realities.