Week 4

Pictures of the week 

Walked from school to Somerset, realize that there's alot of weirdly shaped architecture around but its well, its creative! Its beautiful with the blue sky as the background, i love taking picture of architectures because its alot of effort and takes alot of people to build it. From a general idea to developing and building it, and it always ALWAYS amaze me by how its build by human and of course the help of machine which is also build by human!! Also, saw two girls who dress exactly the same and i find it so cute they are probably family or best friends. Most women fears to be in same clothes nowadays, not going to deny that i am one of them but honestly what's there to be embarrass about that just mean you both have the same fashion sense or well, Singapore is so small and we only have those few places we can actually shop at which is why i want to take up fashion so i will be able to make my own clothes and express my own style.

Ted Talk 

Speaker Tony Fadell talks about The Secret Of Design is.......Noticing. As a product designer himself, it's his job to notice everyday things, feeling it and trying to improve it. He use fruit as an example, how it used to not have the sticker on it untill someone had a bright idea and added it on there so its easier for us to check out at the grocery counter. But the problem was, we have to look for the sticker to peel off before consuming unlike before, we could just take it and eat it right away. He talk about how our brain encode the everyday things we do into habits so we can free up space to learn new things. It's a process called habituation and it's one of the most basic ways, as humans, we learn. So if we focus on those tiny details, the ones we may not see and we look at them as we say, "Are those important or is that the way we've always done it? Maybe there's a way to get rid of those." His last piece of advice is to think younger, because kids haven't lived long enough to experience the world like us. Picasso once said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is when he or she grows up, is how to remain an artist. Its not easy pushing back to one of the basic way we make sense of the world. But if we can, we are able to come up with pretty amazing things for example one day we could get rid of the sticker on the fruit.

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