Category: Design
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Stuff Makers
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in Design??????We are the stuff makers. That is our role as designers,?????? says John Zimmerman. Today we began our next interaction and visual interface design assignment: digital music player. My new group, consisting of fellow graduate student Sook and an industrial design undergraduate, will be creating a new player for commuters. We read Don Norman??????s Emotion…
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Plato Knows Interaction
We’re reading Plato to explore the fourth mode of interaction: person and cosmos. I’m sure most people would not understand why we’re reading Plato to learn about design. It’s possible there are those in my class that feel the same way. I find it extremely interesting to approach Plato and Aristotle—his Poetics was the previous…
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GoCoffee Presentation
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in DesignThe GoCoffee team (Kip, Rachel, and I) presented our mobile interface this morning with great success, despite a snafu where the Flash demonstration did not play correctly in the middle of me speaking. But we rolled with it. Kip, the other grad on the team, stepped up and asked if there were any questions up…
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Cursed Process Book
The process book for my data visualization project is due tomorrow. I initially finished it on Friday. On Saturday, I printed a draft and showed it to someone. Too much white space, he said. Six weeks into design school, I simply cannot ignore a comment like “too much white space.” So I spent time on…
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From Imagination to Bloodshed
During design seminar, Dan took us to view Joyce Kozloff??????s Exterior and Interior Cartographies at the Regina Gouger Miller Gallery on the campus. Kozloff’s work features drawings, collages, prints, paintings. She juxtaposes hand-drawn maps and cut-outs of illustrated military figures and drawings of super heros by young boys. The idea I got was that both…
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Mapping the Invisible
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in DesignToday I went to Martin Wattenburg’s lecture on mapping the invisible, during which he highlighted some of his work, including: Shape of Song NameVoyager Apartment I found the above three the most interesting. They’ve been around for a while, so there’s a chance you’ve already seen them. I can’t remember if I had been to…
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Me and Type
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in DesignFor six weeks I??????ve been studying typography. On occasion, I??????ve produced something halfway to halfway decent as a result of some happy accident or a course of placement and treatment that did not necessarily follow from any typographic prowess. In the words of own of my more honest classmates, ??????your type sucks.?????? Indeed, it does.…
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BusinessWeek Names CMU Top Design School
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in DesignI just got word that the latest BusinessWeek features a section on the best design schools. CMU is listed. In an article titled The Talent Hunt, CMU also gets a mention. Intel is making big financial bets that design school programs like those at ASU, Carnegie Mellon, and Georgia Tech will provide fresh ideas. Nice…
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Mobile Project Paper Prototypes
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in DesignFor tomorrow’s class, which begins in six hours, my mobile project team will be presenting our paper prototypes. Again, if you haven’t been paying attention, we’re creating a mobile application to help people find a coffee shop. Our persona travels often and really likes coffee, but not just any coffee or coffee shop. Our man…