HOT AND COLD MEDIA
Hot media, as defined, is pretty much ready made. Cool and/or Cold media are the opposite. You interact fully with very little of a predefined notion involved. Hot and cold media underpins everything. Design for people interacting on the world where we live. Do we use Handles or Buttons to do this? With Handles we manipulate the world, with Buttons we interact. We need to design emergency routes for the users. Maps to show and hold in the users head
COLD
A T.V's and computer screens are generally considered to be COOL media. T.V's need power and support for them to function. They are "Fuzzy"! You cannot grab it and it is impossible to touch the fuzzy images that appear. Response to a thought. Causel Affect. Send something out there and you get something back! So generally things we interact with are considered COLD.
A T.V's and computer screens are generally considered to be COOL media. T.V's need power and support for them to function. They are "Fuzzy"! You cannot grab it and it is impossible to touch the fuzzy images that appear. Response to a thought. Causel Affect. Send something out there and you get something back! So generally things we interact with are considered COLD.
HOT
A book or a gravestone is considered to be HOT media. They are distinct and you can't edit it. You cannot change the original, it's set. A photograph is also hot. It's a moment in time captured and cannot be change. The same applies to newspapers. The stories that are written are something that is set.
