Jamin Hegeman

Category: Design

  • 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…