Jamin Hegeman

Category: Design

  • Intro to Design Computing

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    This fall I am teaching Introduction to Design Computing, a required course for first-year interaction design graduate students at Carnegie Mellon. Last year, I waived the course because it was primarily a Flash course and I had six years of professional Flash development and design experience. This year, a couple students asked to waive it…

  • UX Week Takeaways

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    Here are all the presentations I went to at UX Week, along with a single takeaway to make it an easy read. If there is no takeaway, I was probably checking email or working on Emergence. Day 1 ClearRx: From Masters Thesis to Medicine Cabinet (Keynote) with Deborah Adler, Milton Glaser Design makes a difference.…

  • Why the Charmr Is Significant

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    My Adaptive Path colleague, Alexa, has a great post on our vision for the Charmr project. Our primary hope is that device companies will see the enthusiasm that a vision created from this perspective can generate and might embrace a more human-centered approach in their work. And we hope to inspire others to answer Amy’s…

  • My Summer Work Unveiled—Charmr

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    Yesterday at UX Week the R&D project I’ve been working on all summer for Adaptive Path was unveiled during a panel discussion called Wear It During Sex. The project was inspired by an open letter to Steve Jobs by Amy Tenderich, a diabetic. Adaptive Path answered the call and developed a diabetes management system, called…

  • Design-Emotion.com Seeks Female Design Experts

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    In response to my post on this site and my post on Adaptive Path’s blog, Marco Van Hout, of design-emotion.com, admitted that I busted him on having only men on his site. He is now looking for expert female designers to interview. I appreciate his transparency. Unfortunately, the essay I was researching that spawned the…