Thesis Response 3

I read Miguel Solorio's Senior Thesis on the Aesthetic Information Design in public Transportation. He talks about how a good amount of people use transit systems and lots of them rely on them to get to work, to go to social events, and to travel. Because of the growing amount of people using transportation systems it makes sense that you would want to make them easy to read, and easy to understand, however Miguel says that the design on transportation systems lacks a sense of aesthetic he shows many examples where the information is overloaded with un-useful things, his idea is to simplify the interface. He says that using relevant mediums to translate information in a way that can be understood across cultures will ultimately impact the way humans interact with  the information presented in front of them. I also Agree with this statement, he goes on to further talk about changing things in a certain way but not drastically changing the aesthetics this makes since because when it is used across a wide range of mediums you need some type of consistency or people are going to get confused; he says its important to not disregard the unity of a design for this purpose. Miguel talks a lot about the different design principles of other countries like London and Tokyo as well talking about the new design aesthetics that they are implementing where things like readability, usability, and simplicity are there main focus. The overall message is that you need to know what, and who you are designing for. The group he is talking about encompasses a large demographic so you need to compare it to the larger whole. When comparing it to the larger whole you need to remember and understand the basic design principles that have been shown to work and implement them with the right medium so it makes sense to the users and  then allows for the bridging of the aesthetic and information.

This was a very interesting read but I felt like a lot of it was things that I already kind of knew he was just applying it to an idea that I never really thought of before. I guess it make me question what a thesis is, is it coming up with a whole new idea entirely, is it a creation of ideas with your own turn on it, or is it just an application to the knowledge you have learned in school and applying it to work with something never thought of before?

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1683194/ais_classes/portfolio_pres/12su/thesis/solorio_miguel_thesis.pd