<aside> 🤓 How computation applies to my interests?

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I grew up with a preference for art and design majors, and I used to imagine how cool it would be to be an artist in middle school. It wasn't until I was exposed to ap classes in computer science in high school, where I learned to make up and design a simple little game using python. I found that design is not just about the appearance of beauty but the combination of actual programming and front-end design behind it. So I chose interaction design as my undergraduate major, which I thought would allow me to get involved in the design and understand more computation and operations. But what really made me realize computation and application was my internship experience in my junior year as a user experience design intern in a new media company in China. When the designer of our group told the engineer our idea and design of the news app, we needed to describe the solutions to the problems encountered by users. The engineer would make a basic functional version with programming and tell us which designs could be implemented and which had limitations. This experience made me realize that I need to know more computation to better represent my user experience design ideas.

<aside> 🤓 What projects do I imagine making this term? What projects do I love?

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This semester, I will learn more programming information, so I hope I can achieve all the projects instead of just looking good or not. I prefer projects that combine physical and digital and can solve problems encountered by people in reality. For example, I am curious about solving various kinds of health and exercise problems for people, and I will try to do interactive devices or visualization related to this.