This week’s reading was about the intriguing concept new concept of design fiction by Sci-Fi writer Bruce Sterling. Bruce Sterling is a Hugo Award-winning science-fiction writer, has been one of the most vocal advocates of design fictions. According to Bruce, One intriguing new way to think about the future is through the concept of “design fiction.” When you first hear the phrase, it sounds slightly nebulous. One useful definition calls design fiction “an approach to design that speculates about new ideas through prototyping and storytelling.”

In terms of the workshop, it was pretty much normal as usual. We basically went more in depth about setting up our blog. We had more chances to do more exercise like embedding videos, pictures, how to use hyperlink and so on.   Apart from that, I also found particularly found Tim Chapman’ short tutorial on embedding images and videos into our blog posts to be helpful.