Jamin Hegeman

Author: Jamin

  • Graphic design is art, says Paul Rand

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    I don’t know if this is new, but it was new to me and I just watched it. Paul Rand talks about graphic design, and says that design is art. I’m pretty sure I don’t agree with him, but it’s kind of interesting to hear his perspective and see the array of designs.

  • What is a problem?

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    When students graduate high school and go to college, they leave behind their social support systems and their families. This is both an exciting and anxiety producing time in life, where they are trying new things and meeting new people. I’m designing a mobile product that will support this lifestyle transition, and help college students…

  • Exploration of Possibility

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    Thanksgiving break for me means time to focus on my thesis paper for more than a day. And I am thankful for that. However, I continue to struggle to stay focused. My paper calls for me to review my notes. My notes lead me to the books I read. The books I read beg for…

  • Interaction Design Misunderstood

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    I’m tracking “interaction” on Twitter, and this just came through… “Front-end Developer; Design Technologist; Web Developer; User Interface Developer; Interaction Designer…are mostly the same. Which one?” If those are all the same, perhaps I don’t know what it is I’m doing.

  • Watching Brain Surgery

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    For the Designing for Service class this semester, we are exploring design solutions for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Neurosurgery Clinic, specifically for Dr. Amin Kassam, who is acclaimed for his minimally invasive endoscopic surgery—a procedure that allows him to remove brain tumors by going in through the patient’s nose. While our efforts are…

  • Classes for Final Semester

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    Course registration for the spring semester began today. I was a bit sad the past few days realizing that the classes I chose were to be the last of grad school. There are still many courses that I would like to take. But alas… In addition to my thesis project and thesis paper, I am…

  • Playing with RFID

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    For my final Making Furniture Interactive project, I planned to create an ambient door with RFID. But after a week, my enthusiasm for the project began to wane. Because it was a concept for my service class, it felt too practical, and didn’t make me excited to work on it. Also, I had desires to…

  • Maggie Breslin Visits Designing for Service

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    This week Maggie Breslin, a former Carnegie Mellon design grad, visited our Designing for Service class to hear about our University of Pittsburgh Medical Center projects and give a presentation on her service design work for the Sparc Innovation Program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. She described her role as both understanding and…

  • Sensor Detector and Ambient Door

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    Kipum Lee and I are proposing to create a sensor detector and ambient door location indicator for our Making Furniture Interactive (MFI) class. Kip and I are also working together on a team in another class to bring service design solutions to the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Neurosurgery Clinic. Our work on that…