Today was one of the best classes I've ever been to. Christine from Happy Slip came to visit our Design 1 lecture class today. I felt I was looking at a celebrity. She was a very chill and relax person and she even brought her mom too. Professor Housefield did the honors of singing "Happy Birthday" to her mom.
When I told people that Christine came to my Design 1 class, they all wondered "Why design?" or "What does Happy Slip have to do with Design?" Even Christine herself wondered why all these design students would want her to guest-lecture in our Design 1 classroom. I replied to everyone that Happy Slip is a designer like all of us. However, she's a famous designer unlike the rest of us. In fact, anyone who's a user of Youtube, Facebook, Twitter, Myspace... etc etc is a designer because we create and design how these social networking sites work. Think about it, these sites rely on social networking and communication of internet users. Therefore, the users are the designers because we create the business for them, we shape the way how their sites work. I'm on Facebook a lot and I notice that the site goes on frequent updates with new changes. The reason they do that is because they're trying to cater to their users to make their site more efficient and receive feedback for it. Without us, the users, these sites would not be in use and shaped the way it is today. This is part of "social media."
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