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Describe how Bill Moggridge defines 'design as a collaborative process'. (3 paragraphs)
 In the video, Bill Monggridge defines "design as a collaborative process" as a way to solve the problems in more progressive ways by working as a "team." The heavily involved designers would gather together and support each other to collaborate and integrate each other's different ideas and designs to make "better" designs. The designers who believe that "shared minds" would be more effective than individual minds, and come together in a same room to brainstorm their ideas.

 He especially highlights the importance of involving people from different backgrounds within the designing process to share more variety of ideas; another thing he mentioned in the video was the importance of involvement of actual people who are going to sue the design, in other words the "participatory design." By working together with the clients, the designers become really aware of what the clients and people who will going to use the designed products need, and change the context of the design to suite those needs.

 Monggridge encourages the designers to collaborate together not only nationally but globally too, because many examples of collaborative business and design process had proved its success and efficiency.

How does Tangible Earth represents a real time interface of data visualization? (2 paragraphs)
 Tangible Earth is an "interactive globe" that its interface can be handled, rotated, and visually changed by hands. Its features are real time, and you can see what is happening in the real world that are represented on the virtual earth of Tangible Earth. This means you can see the virtual typhoon or a tsunami on the interface as it is really forming from the other side of the world.

 It also features the current wind speed, the movements of the clouds, or the tides. It offers you with a magnifying glass so you can zoom into wherever you want from the earth. It also distributes the time changing of different places, including the after scenes of natural disaster or the global warming.