My Opinion of the CMU.edu Redesign

For the first time since the Internet was invented, Carnegie Mellon redesigned their website. Hurray for breaking out of 1996! I applaud the grand undertaking of overhauling a university website. Having worked at the University of Pittsburgh as a web developer for...

I Was a Guest Lecturer

Over the summer, during my design fundamentals training, I had a bit of an argument with the instructor of one of my software training sessions about table-based web design versus CSS web design. The argument was positive, however, in that it ended with the...

ShaunInman.com Redesign

Shaun Inman, a major force in sIFR, the man behind Mint, and a very nice guy whom I had the pleasure of talking to earlier this year, once again redesigned his site. And it’s damn interesting change. While his process of designing in the browser first and then...

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...

Design Studio and Grad Type

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...

Control Redesign: Gas Stove Knob

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...