What is speculative design? With the development of science and technology, we have been constantly thinking and exploring the future, using conceptual design to realize the vision of the future, and constantly looking forward to the future way of life. Speculative design focuses on the future, the possibility rather than the reality. Imagination can be active and illusory, but extrapolations about the future must stand close scrutiny, not just subjective speculation.

Today is the first class of this course. As an overseas student who just changed his major, I felt a little difficult to understand the video content in the course at the beginning, maybe for language reasons. In the class, we learned some concepts about innovation. Innovation refers to the…

The content we learn : Share our research on ‘screen time’ Learn about how Design Thinking is used for social innovation Activity — try “5 Whys” Learn about Empathy (Understand, Observe) principles and tools Activity — scope our topic/audience analysis of both good effect and bad effect of something The instance I proposed:The use of online shoping and delivering application The good effect:convenience

During 1 week’s time, I tried to practice photoshop with English version. Before that time, I always use the Chinese version, but last week I attend the onlinestudio to see the use of Adobe illustrate, since the English version I can’t understand some skills. After this class I turned all of the Adobe softwares to English version. I can recognize some tools by seeing some icons. With the one week practice of using the English version, I hope I could understand the content of the course.

I enrolled the course: visual communication too late that I have missed the first class. In order to comepensate this thing, I need to finish the requirement as soon as pissible.