Jamin Hegeman

Author: Jamin

  • Survived My First Day Teaching

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    Today was the first day teaching Intro to Design Computing. It was my first day teaching anything, ever, officially. I didn’t die. So hurray! But it was harder than I thought it would be. My throat got dry and we’re not allowed to have any drinks in the computer lab. And my introduction and presentation…

  • My Classes This Semester

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    Because I’m in my second year as a graduate design student, half of my course load is taken up by my thesis project and paper (note to self: start working on those). The two classes I’m currently signed up for are Social Web with Jason Hong and Robert Kraut, and Designing for Service with Shelley…

  • Why Attend Emergence

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    I’ve been busting my balls on Emergence over the summer, and things have kicked into high gear with the conference less than two weeks away. Overall, we’re in a good place. We’ve already matched last year’s attendance, and the lineup is one that I’m excited about and believe will appeal to a variety of designers.…

  • Designing for Beauty

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    Just finished watching Crash, and am now thinking about the ability films and other media have on stirring emotion and changing our perspective. I used to say that I never felt more emotional than during or after watching a film. There was a time when I would go to a film on a weekend night,…

  • Intro to Design Computing

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    This fall I am teaching Introduction to Design Computing, a required course for first-year interaction design graduate students at Carnegie Mellon. Last year, I waived the course because it was primarily a Flash course and I had six years of professional Flash development and design experience. This year, a couple students asked to waive it…

  • UX Week Takeaways

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    Here are all the presentations I went to at UX Week, along with a single takeaway to make it an easy read. If there is no takeaway, I was probably checking email or working on Emergence. Day 1 ClearRx: From Masters Thesis to Medicine Cabinet (Keynote) with Deborah Adler, Milton Glaser Design makes a difference.…

  • Why the Charmr Is Significant

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    My Adaptive Path colleague, Alexa, has a great post on our vision for the Charmr project. Our primary hope is that device companies will see the enthusiasm that a vision created from this perspective can generate and might embrace a more human-centered approach in their work. And we hope to inspire others to answer Amy’s…

  • My Summer Work Unveiled—Charmr

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    Yesterday at UX Week the R&D project I’ve been working on all summer for Adaptive Path was unveiled during a panel discussion called Wear It During Sex. The project was inspired by an open letter to Steve Jobs by Amy Tenderich, a diabetic. Adaptive Path answered the call and developed a diabetes management system, called…

  • Charmr Project: Diabetes Management

    Charmr Project: Diabetes Management

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    Interaction Designer, Adaptive Path, Summer 2007 Charmr was an internal R&D project at Adaptive Path inspired by an Open Letter to Steve Jobs by a prominent diabetes blogger, Amy Tenderich. The goal was to generate enthusiasm for human-centered thinking and inspire broader change throughout the medical device and design industry. In eight weeks, we went…