Jamin Hegeman

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  • Teaching Video Sketching

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    As part of my Design Computing class, I am introducing my students to video sketching as a prototyping tool. For most of the students, this is new, but something they will end up doing repeatedly throughout their time at the School of Design. Today, John Zimmerman gave a guest lecture on video sketching, complete with…

  • Service Design Applied to Airport Security

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    For our first project in Designing for Service, our groups were asked to create a service that will foster flow at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security screening stations at the airport. The two biggest restrictions we had were little experience in designing a service and having only one week to complete the project. Our…

  • The Truth About Design Research

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    Dan Saffer is a funny man. Watch the first five minutes of his presentation How to Lie with Design Research at the Design Research Conference. This opening is intriguing, especially the remark about “getting on the design research bandwagon” before it takes off for the ultimate goal of making money. Is design research a fad?…

  • Design Is Design

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    After spending perhaps too much time debating the boundaries of interaction design on the IxDA list a couple days ago, I started wondering why I felt so inclined to contribute to the discussion. Is it true that it doesn’t matter how IxD practitioners perceive interaction design? One comment from that discussion that I’ve been thinking…

  • The Dichotomy of Interaction Design

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    There’s a great debate on the IxDA list regarding what interaction designers can actually do. This is an issue I’ve been pondering, and it’s interesting that the people I agree with are CMU IxD alums—Jeff Howard and Jack Moffet (where is Dan Saffer?). The gist of the argument is that interaction designers cannot design for…

  • Beginning Thesis Paper Readings

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    With Emergence over, my attention has turned to my neglected theses endeavors. Earlier this week I bought a bunch of books, some of which arrived the past few days. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies) by Bill Buxton The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon Design…

  • Emergence 2007 Reflections

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    We did it! After nine months of planning, the conference went off splendidly. The team and I are pretty pleased with ourselves. We succeeded in bringing in more money and more registrations than we had hoped, and were also successful in bringing together a diverse group of speakers and attendees. We got a lot of…

  • Making Furniture Interactive

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    Instead of doing an independent study on composition, or Research Methods with Dick Buchanan, or an introduction to industrial design fundamentals, I’m taking Making Furniture Interactive with Mark Gross. I’m working with a microcontroller, wires, LEDs, and writing programs with Processing. We’re using Arduino—an open-source electronics prototyping platform—for development. I decided to take this course…

  • Mattress + iPhone Mashup

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    Why I thought I needed to actually have my iPhone in bed with me last night, I cannot answer. But let’s just assume that it was a normal thing to do and move on… If you know you have an important email coming, but you also feel the need to sleep, and you don’t want…