Jamin Hegeman

Category: Design

  • Six More Weeks of Grad School

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    If you follow this blog regularly, you will have noticed that I have not been regularly updating as of late. Time has been very limited, and the brain power needed for blogging has been diverted to other tasks, like thesis, thesis, teaching, coursework, and, of course, finding a job.There are six more weeks left of…

  • But why?

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    For one of my classes, I was asked to put a file on the server. But when I saw the possible folder names, none made sense as a destination for my file. “Why is this one called ‘print’?,” I asked. “Why is this one named…why is…,” I continued. This prompted one of my classmates to…

  • Bringing Emotion into the Design Process

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    I’d like to continue a comment about bringing emotion into the design process because I think it deserves its own post. Kip said: Design has some valuable roots in its ties with emotion, but in many ways we’ve lost touch. Can we bring a sophisticated discussion of “emotion” back on the table and include it…

  • Quantifying Design

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    As a designer, one of my greatest questions centers around the value of design, in particular the aspects of design that make it effective, successful, and a valid approach to solving particular problems. I am of the mind that there is rigor and logic to design that is similar to the rigor of scientific research…

  • My Amazon Tags Suggest
    Boundaries for Design

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    Beneath my recommendations on Amazon.com, there exists a tag cloud of categories representing the types of books I typically buy—in this case, typically means in grad school, as 90 percent of my Amazon purchases are related to design. Instead of design, however, according to this, I am mostly interested in commercial, culture, engineering, management, professional…

  • Searching for a New Head

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    At the end of this semester, Dan Boyarski, the current head of the School of Design, is stepping down after six years. Dan has an inspired character and has done an excellent job representing the school. His personality and teaching ability helped seal my decision to apply to the interaction design program at Carnegie Mellon.…

  • Interview Madness

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    On Thursday and Friday of last week, about 50 companies attended the School of Design’s job fair. Friday was the big day, with all interviews taking place then. Each interview was 30 minutes. Some of my peers had up to 13 interviews scheduled. I had fewer, targeting only companies I might have serious interest in.…

  • Moving to SF insane?

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    Saw this comment from Dave Malouf on the IxDA list: You’ve gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just insane to leave anyplace including NYC and move to SF unless you were guaranteed something between $150k-$200k, and HUGE relocation package upwards of $20-$30k. Having done relocates to both coasts I’m pretty familiar with what it takes at…

  • Erik Stolterman talks Design at CMU

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    Erik Stolterman has been visiting Carnegie Mellon for the past few days, during which he gave a lecture on “The Design Paradox – and the nature of design research.” The premise of the talk, aimed at HCI researchers, was that HCI research, which is mostly aimed at improving design practice (his assumption), does not seem…