Jamin Hegeman

Category: Design

  • Sketchcast Review

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    A recent comment led me to Sketchcast.com, a tool that allows you to draw and record what you’re drawing, with the idea that the visualizations can help you communicate your ideas. As a designer who is always open to new methods of visualization and communication of ideas, I set up an account and created the…

  • Defining Design

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    Is defining design a worthwhile endeavor? Or should we just get on with it, do what we do and not analyze it so much? My rather amorphous thesis paper revolves around the process of design research to design concepts, supposedly within the realm of interaction design, but so far not really staying within that boundary.…

  • Teaching Video Sketching

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    As part of my Design Computing class, I am introducing my students to video sketching as a prototyping tool. For most of the students, this is new, but something they will end up doing repeatedly throughout their time at the School of Design. Today, John Zimmerman gave a guest lecture on video sketching, complete with…

  • Service Design Applied to Airport Security

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    For our first project in Designing for Service, our groups were asked to create a service that will foster flow at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security screening stations at the airport. The two biggest restrictions we had were little experience in designing a service and having only one week to complete the project. Our…

  • The Truth About Design Research

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    Dan Saffer is a funny man. Watch the first five minutes of his presentation How to Lie with Design Research at the Design Research Conference. This opening is intriguing, especially the remark about “getting on the design research bandwagon” before it takes off for the ultimate goal of making money. Is design research a fad?…