Jamin Hegeman

Category: Design

  • Verbal Argument in the Design Process

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    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…

  • Guest Lecturer: Chris Pacione

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    Chris Pacione, director of BodyMedia, gave a guest lecture in our Seminar 2 class on Monday. He defined interaction design as posing a different question: not thinking about the object, but the situations. Nothing new for us at this point. However, he proffered Design be taught as a grade school subject, equal to Math, English,…

  • I need a whiteboard to diagram my warring obligations

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    Seminar Paper I downloaded about 30 research papers that I thought might pertain to my Seminar paper topic for Jodi Forlizzi. Yes, I know that’s too much. But around every corner is another fascinating paper on some aspect of design. I suppose this insatiable appetite is why I’m in this program. I also bought Donald…

  • Design for Knowledge

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    The other day we had a lecture on design research. We were first asked what we thought design research was. There was silence. “I know what research is,” I thought. But design research. Why did the posing of the question make it seem different? I ventured a guess. “Methods,” I said. It went on the…

  • Golan Levin’s Digital Art Presentation

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    Today I went to a School of Art lecture series featuring Golan Levin, who teaches my information visualization class with Ben Fry. He showed mostly older work, but it was an interesting and impressive display of digital art. His Manual Input Sessions work was the most impressive. Hand gestures made on a projector produce shapes…

  • Happy Birthday to Me

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    I’m not one to go around telling people it’s my birthday, which is why this post is coming 40 minutes after my birthday (unless you’re on the west coast). It was a fun experiment to see if anyone would say anything. My number one suspect for getting the word out: Facebook. At around 4 p.m.…

  • Interning at Adaptive Path

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    Just a brief note to say I recently accepted an offer to work at Adaptive Path over the summer. I’m super excited to experience what they’re all about and check out San Francisco. I start the end of May and finish in early August. Should be a good time. In other news, my illness has…

  • Hugh Dubberly’s Dozen Trends

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    Hugh Dubberly spoke at our Seminar 2 class this morning, but I missed it because I have been deathly ill. Since Friday, I have been fighting some terrible cold. Illness and grad school do not go together. He was also giving a lecture in my Studio 2 class. I managed to pull my aching body…

  • Words Fail to Describe

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    I won’t tell you where I found time to read “Strong Words” by Véronique Vienne in the March/April 2007 issue of PRINT, but I did. The article questions the wisdom of changing the AIGA’s name a year ago from “American Institute of Graphic Arts” to “The Professional Association of Design,” and has a very interesting…