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Nicholas Smith Biography

Having hopped, skipped and jumped around the world for the better part of his twenties, Nicholas has found his passion as an Interaction Design Major at the University of Washington. He is driven by the notion that at any given moment we can make our world better, and as designers, we are in a unique position to help guide this transformation.

Daniya Ulgen Biography

Daniya did a lot of deep thinking in her younger years, but by pre-school she had left most of it behind. Now studying Interaction Design at the University of Washington, Daniya enjoys laughing quite a lot, although she is occasionally accused of providing some unique insight or having a point. These are mostly ugly smears that she tries to evade. Daniya likes people and problem solving, and believes she’s found a way to apply both of these interests to her designing. No one has told her otherwise.

Jason Wong Biography

Jason Wong attended the University of Washington, completing degrees in psychology and industrial design. During his tenure in school, he questioned the authority and validity of the design profession. Jason has learned that design is a balance of both the beautiful and useful.

Ben Mabry Biography

For Ben Mabry, design is about exchanging the mundane details of life, for something worth recalling. Be it for its beauty, its usefulness or its poignant absurdity, anything well-designed will always garnish Ben’s attention and recollection. Ben hopes the viewer enjoys the group’s effort.

Vu Chu Biography

After becoming versed in the world of physics, math and biomedical research for a few years, Vu found a more fitting home in the pursuit of design and entrepreneurship.

Description

In our memory, each file has specific associations that help us recall it quickly. By collecting contextual markers as one uses these files, Origin allows the user to search by these associations later on. It can be assumed that these contextual markers will be limitless in the future. These tags can be used to search, but the system is also smart, offering suggestions on what the user might want at any given time.

Communication objective

It’s easy to become overwhelmed by the task of managing our countless digital files. Today’s systems rely on filenames and folders but the existing system buries files, due to its linear hierarchical system. Conversely, the human brain is constantly creating associations by which people are able to remember things later. These contextual associations provide many ways to recall information. Origin is a finder system that seeks to build on the natural model. It takes note of physical and digital context, to build a memory surrounding one’s information. It accomplishes this by networking smart devices to exploit the growing ubiquity of embedded sensors and connectivity. Because Origin constantly marks information so it can be recalled, the user can even locate things that were never named. In a world where the goal is not only to get connected, but to make staying connected possible, Origin is an essential tool that makes finding things as easy as remembering them.

Tools used

Adobe products were used at every step of the design process. Illustrator was used for vector drawings and Photoshop was employed for renderings. InDesign processed book and presentation layouts. Video compositing and editing was accomplished in After Effects and Premiere Pro.

Adobe Tools

Adobe Media Encoder, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Bridge, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Soundbooth