Jamin Hegeman

Category: Web

  • Cursed Process Book

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    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…

  • Design Studio and Grad Type

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    I’ve mostly been talking about my Design Seminar class with Dick Buchanan and my Interaction and Visual Interface Design with John Zimmerman because those classes involve more discussion of ideas, which are easier to write about. My other two classes, Design Studio with Dan Boyarski and Graduate Type with Karen Moyer (and later Kristin Hughes),…

  • Control Redesign: Gas Stove Knob

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    In my previous post, I failed to mention the control I redesigned. I choose a knob on my gas stove. Problems Turning the knob to Lite, which is also the highest gas setting, releases more gas than is necessary for pilot light to ignite gas. There is no indication of the lowest gas setting. Gas…

  • Emergence Conference Website

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    Last week Dan Boyarski popped his head into class, pointed to me, and told me to see him after class. So I did. He wanted to know if I could help out with maintaining and updating the Emergence Conference website that the School of Design is hosting September 8???????10. Sure, I said. Even with the…

  • Bad Industrial Design Web Sites

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    What I didn’t say yesterday was that we had to choose an industrial design firm for our one-page write-up. I looked at a half dozen sites before deciding. The determining factors for the company I chose were the site didn’t totally suck, and they had photos of the products and text I could grab for…

  • Going Past Midnight

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    I had a pretty full day. CMU classes from 9 a.m. until about 3 p.m. Then I had a initial strategy meeting with a new client. Then a lot of post meeting discussion. And now I’m sitting down to do some homework that I foresee taking me into the early hours. This week we’re being…

  • End of Week 1, and Lunch with Dan Boyarski

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    Today concluded our week with Karen Moyer and typographic hierarchy. I’m not sure if I mentioned this before, but we will have a new instructor who will explore a different aspect of design each week. Next week has to do with 3D objects, I believe. After class we were treated to lunch with Dan Boyarski,…

  • Last Day at Pitt

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    Wow. Hard to believe my time at the University of Pittsburgh is coming to an end: tomorrow. Because there is no developer yet to replace me, my workload has not decreased, and I’ve been scrambling to finish up a couple of projects. I completed one yesterday, but another will likely not be done before the…

  • Top Ten Accomplishments at Pitt 2006

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    My director recently asked everyone in the department for their top 10 accomplishments for 2006, as the end of our fiscal year and reviews are approaching. Even though I’m leaving the University of Pittsburgh on June 30, I decided to submit a list anyway. The list that follows is what I submitted: I introduced the…