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New Media & Technology

1. My new media is Expert System.
2. My Technology is Digital Printing.

Digital Print

This is a expert system demo

EXPERT SYSTEMS

One of the largest area of applications of artificial intelligence is in expert sytems, or knowledge based systems as they are often known. This type of system seeks to exploit the specialised skills or information held by of a group of people on specific areas. It can be thought of as a computerised consulting service. It can also be called an information guidance sytem. Such systems are used for prospecting medical diagnosis or as educational aids. They are also used in engineering and manufacture in the control of robots where they inter-relate with vision systems. The initial attempts to apply artificial intelligence to generalised problems made limited progress as we have seen but it was soon realised that more significant progress could be made if the field of interest was restricted. 

STRUCTURE 

- The internal structure of an expert system can be considered to consist of three parts: 

- the knowledge base ; the database; the rule interpreter. 

- This is analagous to the production system where we have 

- the set of productions; the set of facts held as working memory and a rule interpreter. 

The knowledge base holds the set of rules of inference that are used in reasoning. Most of these systems use IF-THEN rules to represent knowledge. Typically systems can have from a few hundred to a few thousand rules. 

The database gives the context of the problem domain and is generally considered to be a set of useful facts. These are the facts that satisfy the condition part of the condition action rules as the IF THEN rules can be thought of. 

The rule interpreter is often known as an inference engine and controls the knowledge base using the set of facts to produce even more facts. Communication with the sytem is ideally provided by a natural language interface. This enables a user to interact indelendently of the expert with the intelligent system. 

OPERATION OF THE SYSTEM 

- Again there are three modes to this: 

- the knowledge acquisition mode; 

- the consultation mode; 

- and the explanation mode. 

- We shall consider each in turn. 

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION 

The system must liaise with people in order to gain knowledge and the people must be specialised in the appropriate area of activity. For example medical doctors, geologists or chemists. The knowledge engineer acts as an intermediary between the specialist and the expert system. Typical of the information that must be gleaned is 

vocabulary or jargon, general concepts and facts, problems that commonly arise, the solutions to the problems that occur and skills for solving particular problems. This process of picking the brain of an expert is a specialised form of data capture and makes use of interview techniques. The knowledge engineer is also responsible for the self consistency of the data loaded. Thus a number of specific tests have to be performed to ensure that the conclusions reached are sensible. 

CONSULTATION 

The system is in this mode when a user is interacting with it. The user interacts by entering data in English and the sytem responds by using its inference engine to carry out the reasoning involved in deriving an answer to the questions posed by the user. The role of the inference engine is to search for facts that match the condition part of the productions that match the action part of the question. There is scope for the use of heuristics in this role. The following example is hypothetical but illustrates the action of typical systems.

Redesign glasses case

The main purpose is reduce the cost to design a glasses case, but the feedback from the last one which I did is thinked too heavy, so I want solue this problem.

the original one



Redesign the template

 put the connection stuffs in the template in order to lose the weight, also it keep strong struture to protect the product inside.

 The context below is information about the cost of Cardboard material from manufacture in Shanghai.

1) The common cardboard thickness between 0.4-0.45mm in China, and the price is ￥15/each (660*1016mm).

2) Card is not a rigid material, the process can be determined according to design requirements.

     

     - Hot Stamping : making copperplate to press follow the template.

     - Embossing : making more thicken copperplate to press.

     - Cutting window: organize the knife path , using machine die-cutting

3) The price can not be evaluated, because it is according to the size of the process area and difficulty.

4) The shape of packaging box need to be glued, and some activities by human labor.

5) Some box need to put them together though two parts which made separately.

SUGGESTION: 

Using ray cutting process.

Carved off with a solid line, the crease with a dotted line.

My own product concept board

1. copy the concept board (learning the software skills)

using AI copy main title font

copy process

put on all of the context withour pic

the original one

the copy one

2. Design a product concept board on my glasses case

Product picture

design a frame for putting the contexts.

final work

Getting Moody: A Look at Inspiration and Style in Early Design Techniques

http://viget.com/inspire/getting-moody

Shared this link to explain a clear details for product concept board, It might be useful.

What is a mood board?

Mood boards, being a lot like they sound, are typically used to help establish a style, theme, expression, environment, atmosphere, or feeling. They often consist of found objects from magazine tear outs or digital imagery to fabric or color swatches, but really can be anything that inspires (like a favorite saying, or phrase, for example). We'll collect these inspirational tidbits to help establish a general look and feel direction prior to jumping head first into a full, precise design. It's all about starting loosely and getting specific as you progress through the design process.

Why they are helpful

For a company providing fixed bid work, one of the worst things that can happen is to spend substantial budgeted hours on getting the design right for an initial presentation only for it to fall flat with the client. By abstracting the design through several variations up front without spending exhaustive hours on it, we can get a general direction to proceed. If a client can see about three distinct stylistic directions and clearly articulate their impressions and feelings of each, we'll get the feedback necessary to create a full composition; thereby moving a crucial step closer to a completed design the client adores. The sin of starting all over again after an initial presentation can often leave both the client and agency defeated. Mood boards allow a designer to start broadly and get more specific over time by including the client in the process along the way. Think "wire framing" in the practice of user experience design. The same can be done with visual design.

How they are used

The most common outcome of a mood board is a color palette, but they also help in choosing textures, imagery and general inspiration. In graphic design, we use them to help establish typographic directions and hierarchy. Should a design use serif type for a classic feel or san-serif type for a more modern feel? Or, should the design have a mixture of classic and modern? More specific to web design, we can use them to propose button styles, form elements, iconography, photographic treatments, and additional typographic elements (headers, sub-heads, paragraphs, etc.).
Consider the term "mood board" as an over-arching reference to at least two more specific meanings.

Product concept board





Here is some products concept board, we can see board including lots of parts. For example, drawings, images, texts, graphic desin, 3D model effect pictures, ideas , product explaination, etc.

For designers at Viget, Mood Boards are consistently among our favorite topics to discuss and deliverables to create. I wanted to shed a little more light on the subject to talk about some variations of the practice and how we look at them at Viget. Essentially, mood boards aren't a one-size-fits-all kind of thing and we have different approaches to them. Ultimately, we always have the same goal in mind – to start broad in efforts to get early feedback that will allow us to narrow our focus as we begin to work on the details of a design. I originally approached this subject back in 2008 looking at two variations of mood boards. Since then, our two variations have morphed into three. Here are some examples that illustrate what we mean.

What are the benefits?

Faster mockup production

Some clients will argue that they don’t want to pay for mood boards and would rather go straight to mockups, but a few short hours spent up front can save countless hours down the line. With a visual guide created and a clear vision of where you’re headed it’s much easier to jump right in to the visual prototyping process. There is no blank-canvas syndrome to deal with, and no gnawing feeling that you are wasting your time on a concept they might not like. Best of all, there are no big surprises. Since using mood boards I have yet to run into a project that was a complete do-over.

Smoother client buy-in

Additionally, early client participation makes them a bigger part of the project. When clients feel involved they are more likely to trust you. Mood boards make it clear that you are listening to them and considering their input. They also gain insight into the thinking behind your decisions, dispelling the all-too-common notion that designers choose everything on a whim. Knowing why you picked something will often keep personal preferences (ie/ the client’s favorite color is purple so she would like to see that as a background) from creeping in as change requests.

Less frustration, more fun

Mood boards are so much fun, they hardly feel like work. Designing loosely lets you brainstorm, explore and play with different styles without all the limitations a layout (and coding realities) will later impose. They also keep revision cycles to a minimum, something every designer can appreciate.

MY LECTURE: Applying creative thinking methods in the design of surface graphics for packaging design

Abstract

This research diary is discussed about creative thinking methods, and how to apply creative thinking methods into packaging surface graphic. Firstly, the definition and fundamental of creative thinking is important to know, it will describe the meaning of creative thinking. And then according to analysis from the common creativity surface design in packaging, it will know different kinds of purpose when we are designing the surface, and it can improve my mind to understand the benefits which one is using creative thinking in it. Secondly, a range of visual references used to exemplify key concepts and a range of theoretical references that offer credibility to the instruction. Be sure references can let us know theoretical knowledge about the relationship between mixed art and creative thinking, and the foundational consideration of packaging design, and also learn the tips and survival guide in creative thinking. Finally, Summary and settle principles of creative thinking which can be apply into packaging surface design in order to find a appoarch that how to connect creative thinking idea to your project. However, set up criteria should be necessary for evaluating the design which is creatively.

 Learning summary

First start from the definition of CT, a preliminary understanding of the CT is a emotional thinking. Not like VT are logical, convergent, and some results in unique or few solutions. However, it can be said that some abstraction in the CT, such as imaginative, divergent, lateral, and can generate many possible solutions. CT is a good way when we are doing design, especially in surface graphic. From the example of Google and Paul Smith, there are many advantages to the use of the CT. While some content is not easy to identify. But the main idea consists of a series of topics on them.

From the example of the use of CT of Packaging Design, was the subject of a variety of different elements can be applied to packaging. For example advertising, branding, interesting, fashion, personality, function, etc. But all of them service for product. When we use CT, the first consideration is following process re-engineering and ask some questions from the subject main purpose.

On the other hand, I found many relation or disrelation stuff can be mixed in art and design. And then can use some popular tools which are brainstorming, random input, restatement, inversion. The most Useful and quickly one is brainstorming. With these tools, we also need the CT tips and survival guide, they can enjoy the design process more easier and fun.

In summary, There are five phases when apply the CT into packaging surface graphic. They are preparation, induction, analysis, synthesis, evaluation. Induction, analysis and synthesis are the most important which are the key in terms of experiences and practices. In the end, if you want do more creative, forget everything before and then do it again.