Jamin Hegeman

Tag: cmu

  • Why Designers Are Valued

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    Today in design seminar, Dick Buchanan defined the reasons that make designers valuable. Whole/part: designers look at the whole in relation to the parts; they see the big picture Bring to life/creativity: designers have a passion for making things Comfortable with ambiguity: openendedness; not prejudging the solution; take chances, take risks; try multiple solutions Polysensorial…

  • Else/Where Project Complete

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    Consuming the majority of my school time recently has been the visualization of information space project, which was due today. My space was the book Else/Where: Mapping. Due to all the other stuff I??????ve been up to or had to deal with (like being accused of intentionally changing server passwords), I did not have the…

  • Spring 2007 Courses

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    On Monday graduate students were allowed to register for spring courses starting at 6 a.m. A couple classes I wanted to take seemed rather popular, so I set the alarm for 5:55, after going to bed at 3 a.m., and not falling asleep until 4 a.m. My strategy paid off, however, as I got in…

  • Practicing Design on Wicked Problems

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    In response to a previous comment, I tried to define what an interaction designer does in rebuttal to the assertion that the goal is to build a better mousetrap. I wrote: From an interaction design standpoint, you might ask why we have mousetraps? Are mice the real problem? How do mice get into areas where…

  • Buchanan in Lisbon Impression

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    I received a report from the field about Dick Buchanan’s speech at the design conference in Lisbon last week. While subjective, I found it interesting and got permission to share it with you. Buchanan tells us that the design methods movement of the 1940s was largely concerned with design potentialities, productive science (the act of…

  • Still Struggling With Design

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    It took me a while, but I’ve accepted that I am now a designer because my thinking about what it means to be a designer has changed. And while I can envision and practice design from a certain standpoint, I’m still very much lacking in the communication design arena. This is proving to be quite…

  • Why Learn the Arts?

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    Dick Buchanan is in Lisbon for the 2006 Design Research Society International Conference, so today Carl DiSalvo filled in, and nearly stumped us by asking a basic question about our current topic of interest: the arts. “Why learn the arts” he asked. There was a pause, perhaps because it was a tough question to start…

  • Understanding Interaction

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    Last week we had to turn in our first paper for Dick Buchanan’s design seminar course. The first four pages were to discuss the central features of each of the four modes of interaction we had studied. The next two pages were to discuss the relationship of form and matter in the four modes. This…

  • Ben Fry Talks Data Visualization

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    Ben Fry visited our design studio class again, this time to give a presentation instead of critiquing our work. He talked about the importance of being able to visualize complex data in order to gain a better understanding of what we’re talking about, for instance, when we say the human genome consists of approximately 35,000…