Jamin Hegeman

Category: Design

  • Thesis Paper Proposal

    —

    in

    I had a conversation today with a Henning Fischer, a coworker at Adaptive Path, about design process, which got me blabbering something about my thesis paper proposal, tentatively titled the Leap from Research to Design in Interaction Design. I had not looked at it since writing it during finals week, so tonight I read what…

  • First Day at Adaptive Path

    First Day at Adaptive Path

    —

    in ,

    And so it begins. I introduced myself at the weekly Tuesday staff meeting. “Oh, so that’s how you say your name.” I also got a couple, “You don’t look like what I imagined.” Today was pretty relaxed. I met the other intern, Irene Chong, from the Institute of Design. We compared design programs and conference-running…

  • Made it to Cali

    —

    in

    After a bit of a mix-up, I made it to San Francisco this morning. On Sunday, I went at the airport for my 10 am flight. I entered my flight info at the check-in kiosk only to find out that my flight was not Sunday May 20, but Sunday May 27. It had been booked…

  • Busy and Blog Broke

    —

    in ,

    The end of the semester sucked up all my time. And while that was going on, my comments got corrupted. When I tried fixing that late one night (or early one morning, depending on your perspective), I only succeeded in breaking the site more so that I could not access the admin section. Hence, no…

  • CMU Alumni Party at Adaptive Path

    —

    in

    On Sunday, I attended a CMU alumni get together at Adaptive Path in San Francisco. The event coincided with CHI being in San Jose this year. And CHI was the reason I was in SF. Dan Saffer was our host, so I got to talk with him a bit. One thing everyone seemed to mention…

  • Two Minute Madness

    —

    in

    I may have mentioned before that our final assignment for Jodi Forlizzi’s Seminar 2 class is a 15-page paper on a topic of our choice. While I turned in a draft of this paper a few days ago, I am still having trouble saying what it is the paper is about. Tomorrow, I have to…

  • Teaching Next Semester

    —

    in

    A while back Dan Boyarski asked if I would teach Introduction to Computing in Design this fall, and I accepted. The title of the course doesn’t say a lot, and the current description is even worse. But essentially I will be teaching the incoming interaction design students how to prototype in Flash. I can’t say…

  • Guest Lecturer: Preetham Kolari, Sonic Rim

    —

    in

    Preetham Kolari, of Sonic Rim, gave a talk in Seminar 2 about design research. His message was somewhat unique in that he split design research into methods and attitudes. The methods included: self ethnography contextual interviews applied ethnography deployment studies participatory design cognitive mapping collaging velcro modeling I’ve been introduced to or used those. So…

  • Verbal Argument in the Design Process

    —

    in

    I had a group meeting today, as is often the case. We met for almost three hours. During this time, we produced no tangible results. No models of the system, no scenario storyboard, no interface sketches. About two hours in, one of my group members asked what we were doing because it didn’t seem like…