Sharnia King Design

Growing up in Wellington, I idolised the urban city. The glamour, the art, the formality, the modernity, the inspiration people and the fast paced lifestyle. I then moved away to a rural town where everything was slow, dirty and boring. Moving back to Wellington in 2012, everything became fun and colourful again as...

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Theory Construction In Design Research: Criteria, Approaches and Methods Ken Friedman The Design field represents six general domains from the world. Natural sciences, humanities and liberal arts, social and behavioural sciences, human professions and services, creative and applied arts and technology and engineering. Design may use all of these domains, or just...

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Theories For Design And For Things There are many different definitions of what a theory is. This can be specific to the topic or subject it is being used in. "A theoretician therefore, identifies phenomena in the world, studies them and makes assertions about their underlying structure."  "The notion of design...

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Tangible Bits: Towards Seamless Interfaces Between People, Bits and Atoms Hiroshi Ishii and Brygg Ullmer "We began our investigation of "looking to the future of HCI" at this museum by looking for what we have lost with the advent of personal computers. Our intention was to rejoin the richness of the physical...

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I, Sharnia King, hereby swear to abandon all fear; to question everything; to trust in myself; to honour those before me as I excel, and to support those who follow as they ascend. I swear that I will never accept another's standard for success, as I set mine one measure higher....

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