Category: Design
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Bringing Emotion into the Design Process
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…
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Quantifying Design
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…
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My Amazon Tags Suggest
Boundaries for DesignBeneath 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…
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Searching for a New Head
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.…
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Interview Madness
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.…