Jamin Hegeman

Category: Design

  • Happy New Year

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    New year’s eve means parties. And parties often entail meeting new people and telling them what you do. So I got a lot of practice on new year’s eve telling people what interaction design is. It’s still difficult to do. I usually start off just telling people I study design and hope that don’t ask…

  • What Design Conference to Attend?

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    Each year the School of Design gives us some money to attend a conference of our choice. Unless I missed something, we were never provided with a list of conferences thought to be worthwhile, which I believe would be helpful since many of us come from different fields and are not familiar with design conferences.…

  • Else/Where Video

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    For our final grad studio class, we presented our visualizing information space projects again, with any edits we made. Editing was not required as we had another deliverable due as well. I did not have much time to make major changes, but I did work on syncing the music to the video some more. Once…

  • First Semester Over

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    The part of my brain that??????s been constantly analyzing my schedule and managing my time, planning what I need to do next and how long I??????ll have to do it, does not now know what to do. I turned in my final assignment, a process book for my digital music device project, today at 3:30…

  • Final Week of First Semester

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    Last week was a crazy week. Each day something big was due. This week, I have my final presentation for the wearable music device for commuters that my team has created for John Zimmerman’s Interaction and Visual Interface Design class. Right now, that’s kicking my ass. As usual, I’m learning a bunch of stuff on…

  • Pluralism and Objectivity

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    My graduate seminar class with Dick Buchanan ended yesterday. For this last class, we discussed pluralism and objectivity, which Buchanan states as the fundamental problem of design. Why is it a problem? There is no subject matter in design. Designers make their subject matter. “This is a very peculiar thing,” Buchanan says. I agree. And…

  • Impact of Design on Humanity

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    Previously I mentioned a slight uneasiness with the notion that in some way designers hold an elevated status. What I may have really been recognizing is the burden of responsibility that design has on the designer, and the uneasiness was a realizing of the power of design in the wrong hands: i.e., someone who employs…

  • Why Designers Are Valued

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    Today in design seminar, Dick Buchanan defined the reasons that make designers valuable. Whole/part: designers look at the whole in relation to the parts; they see the big picture Bring to life/creativity: designers have a passion for making things Comfortable with ambiguity: openendedness; not prejudging the solution; take chances, take risks; try multiple solutions Polysensorial…

  • Interaction Design Not a Selling Point

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    I caught a commercial for some Braun product this evening, and became intrigued by the mention of “German engineering.” I can’t remember the product, and I’m not sure it matters, but it occurred to me that Braun thought “German engineering” to be a selling point. This got me thinking about the evolution of design thinking and the…