Jamin Hegeman

  • Human-Centered Design: a Means to What End?

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    Human-centered design is fantastic, designers all agree. It’s the greatest thing since sliced bread and it will make the world a better place. At least, that’s what we designers like to think is the result of our work. I came across this intriguing model by Ralf Beuker, called Design Strategy at a Glance, and am…

  • MVP 2008–2009

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    This weekend I was awarded most valuable player for Alameda Athletic, a soccer team I play for in the East Bay.

  • Got your own mobile app yet?

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    Yesterday I read about iLike providing a syndication platform to help artists connect with fans through custom iPhone Apps. It seems the commercials don’t lie. “There’s an app for that” is increasingly true. The iLike move reminded me of when web tools first emerged to help people create sites to promote themselves, their business, or…

  • Moggridge Says Interaction Design May be Unnecessary

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    I saw a screening of the film Objectified, after which the director, Gary Hustwit, and two of the designers featured in the film, Bill Moggridge (IDEO) and Dan Formosa (Smart Design), did a little Q&A. One audience member asked Moggridge to reflect on defining interaction design as a discipline. In his response, he said that…

  • Are important issues missing out on design?

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    photo from ISIS Last month, I presented at the Sex Tech, a conference that, to my surprise, had nothing to do with making sex better through technology. Instead, the conference brought together people involved in adolescent sexual health, sex education, HIV prevention, STD prevention, and sexual literacy. I was there with Carrie Chan to talk…

  • Designing for Behavior

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    For a while now, when people ask me about being an interaction designer, I have explained it as designing for behavior: what, how, and why someone interacts with a product, service, or organization. As an interaction designer, I tread in the land of emotion, motivation, action, need, and desire. Like design itself, there need not…

  • Process not a differentiator?

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    Last week I had a chat with Jeff Howard, during which I described the presentations at the Service Design Network conference in November. My observation from the conference is that service designers seem to know what service design looks like. The process shown during the presentations looked very similar. This prompted Jeff to suggest that…

  • Follow Your Users on Twitter

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    Are you a designer who checks Twitter incessantly (or at least occasionally) and also wants daily insights into the thoughts and desires of the people who use the products and services you design for? Then perhaps you should start following your users on Twitter. As a still relatively new Nokia designer, and having little experience…

  • Analyze the Personality of Your Blog

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    Want to figure out the personality of your blog? Check out Typealyzer. My writing on this blog comes out as ENTJ. There’s also a nifty visualization of the parts of the brain active during writing. ENTJ – The Executives The direct and assertive type. They are especially attuned to the big picture and how to…