Bianca Aguilar
@biancamikaila
designer, educator, writer, learner
bianca.digitalBianca Aguilar
By cultivating human creativity and collaboration, this Game can be considered as a digital creative tool. In order to bring out learners’ highest potential, it must be designed intentionally. Many technological, social, and economic challenges also need to be addressed so that anyone and everyone can play this Game.
Reboot • Level Up
“We often think about the PhD as a mechanism for creating more just futures -- and a more just world,” said Rodgers, who earned her doctorate at the University of Southern California. “It’s one of the most creative and impactful fields that you can go into.”
No one likes over-complexity. So why does it seem to abound on the Chinese web? I think the main problems here are low awareness of web usability and a culture of duplication. There is an incredible amount of copy-catting that goes on between Chinese websites. One guy does a text-heavy design on a site that become popular, the next guy is
... See moreKendra Schaefer • Notes From Behind the Firewall: The State of Web Design in China
South Africa: Land of Opposites
South Africa, to some South Africans and the media, is often referred to as the “Land of Opposites”, or “Land of Contrasts”. It’s a fair statement to make. Due to a rocky past, the country has been left with some very visible contradictions and problems. It’s quite common to see incredible wealth right next to sadden
... See moreDaine Mawer • Land of Opposites: State of the Web Industry in South Africa
“Digital universalism ” is the pervasive but mistaken framework shaping global imaginaries around the digital that presumes that a single, universal narrative propelled by “centres” of innovation can accurately represent the forms of digital development unde
rway across the globe today.
Anita Say Chan • Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
The Cute Factor
Ahhhhh, the “cute” factor. Japan is a gentle, nonviolent country and that core cultural thread is sewn throughout eCommerce and mobile communication.
Rich Mirocco • Big in Japan: Web Design in the Land of the Rising Sun
Many major non-Chinese sites are completely inaccessible. Trying to load up a blocked site usually gets you a good ol’ Page Cannot be Displayed message, and for reasons seemingly unknown to anyone, also seems to crash your browser’s ability to load anything at all for thirty seconds or so.