Jamin Hegeman

Category: Design

  • Data Poster Critiqued by Ben Fry

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    After depriving myself of sleep and taking a chance that my poster would work it??????s way through the print queue in time for class (we were told to allow 48 hours and I submitted my job at 2 a.m.), I gladly hung my poster on the wall with everyone else during grad studio this afternoon.…

  • 668 Paths To Go

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    Although I spent all day working on my data visualization project, I’m still pretty much at square one, if you were to measure my current results by means of a finished project. I came into the studio late in the day to get some feedback to ensure I didn’t go down the wrong path and…

  • Empty Space Loses Its Meaning

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    I read the following quote in the appendix of House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, which a friend laid in my lap while I was drinking beer and searching for new clothes online at 1 a.m. I wished to show that space-time is not necessarily something to which one can ascribe a separate existence,…

  • A Day in My Grad Life

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    Earlier I was typing an email in which I related to my friend how busy I have been, and then described everything I had to do over the next few days. As I typed the email I thought, “this could be my blog post. I could just copy and paste.” But that didn’t seem right.…

  • Mobile Project Persona

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    Today my group met to discuss our findings from independent interviews regarding our mobile project to help find a coffee shop. We have the beginnings of a persona. His name is Johannes Zummerman. He is 38 and married, and is a military software consultant. He loves good coffee. He needs it. It??????s part of his…

  • Interacting in a World With No Meaning

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    I’m going to preface this post by saying I am not going to do this topic justice. We read “Communication: The Context of Change” by Dean Barnlund for Dick Buchanan’s class. It was actually a really good read, and quite accessible, unlike some of the other readings. The three questions Dick always asks about the…

  • Learning to Frame the Problem

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    I got my control redesign grade: 88. It’s a decent grade, though I’m not that concerned about the grade. Since giving my presentation, John’s question, “Who wants gas without flame?” has bubbled to the surface of my brain now and again. So it wasn’t a surprised when his feedback said the problem with my solution…

  • Pittsburgh IxDA

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    I went to a Pittsburgh IxDA meeting tonight. I believe this was the third meeting, so it??????s really in its infancy. There were only five of us, including two CMU graduate design students (Simon and me). The meeting was organized by Michele Marut, a human factors specialist at Respironics. There was also David Bishop, Director,…

  • Emergence Photos

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    I posted the photos from Emergence to Flickr. There is also an Emergence Flickr group.