Category: Design
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Design Is Design
After spending perhaps too much time debating the boundaries of interaction design on the IxDA list a couple days ago, I started wondering why I felt so inclined to contribute to the discussion. Is it true that it doesn’t matter how IxD practitioners perceive interaction design? One comment from that discussion that I’ve been thinking…
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The Dichotomy of Interaction Design
There’s a great debate on the IxDA list regarding what interaction designers can actually do. This is an issue I’ve been pondering, and it’s interesting that the people I agree with are CMU IxD alums—Jeff Howard and Jack Moffet (where is Dan Saffer?). The gist of the argument is that interaction designers cannot design for…
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Beginning Thesis Paper Readings
With Emergence over, my attention has turned to my neglected theses endeavors. Earlier this week I bought a bunch of books, some of which arrived the past few days. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies) by Bill Buxton The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon Design…
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Emergence 2007 Reflections
We did it! After nine months of planning, the conference went off splendidly. The team and I are pretty pleased with ourselves. We succeeded in bringing in more money and more registrations than we had hoped, and were also successful in bringing together a diverse group of speakers and attendees. We got a lot of…
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Making Furniture Interactive
Instead of doing an independent study on composition, or Research Methods with Dick Buchanan, or an introduction to industrial design fundamentals, I’m taking Making Furniture Interactive with Mark Gross. I’m working with a microcontroller, wires, LEDs, and writing programs with Processing. We’re using Arduino—an open-source electronics prototyping platform—for development. I decided to take this course…