Jamin Hegeman

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  • CMU School of Design Award-Winning

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    Bruce Nussbaum announced that next week Business Week will publish the annual International Design Excellence Awards winners. A new category this year is design schools, and CMU’s School of Design is mentioned. Uncanny that I was just talking about the School of Design’s lack of exposure. “And talented design students are coming out of a…

  • Carnegie Mellon a graduate design school?

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    Here is a typical conversation I have when meeting new people during my summer in San Francisco. IDEO designer: What are you studying? Me: Interaction design. IDEO designer: Where? Me: Carnegie Mellon. IDEO designer: I didn’t know they teach design. This frustrates me to no end. Here I am at what I believe to be…

  • Reconsidering Thesis Project

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    Over the weekend I was talking to a designer who created a skirt that lit up when you twirled. That’s great and all, but it seems like a lot of wearable projects do only that: light up given some condition. This got me thinking about wearables and the challenge of making a wearable that really…

  • Video Sketches vs. Cartoon Scenarios

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    I volunteered to give brown bag presentation at Adaptive Path on the mobile media research and concept my team did for Motorola last semester. I really didn’t know what they would think. The most conversation centered around the value of the scenario video sketch versus a lower fidelity demonstration of the concept. Jesse James Garrett…

  • Mobile Presentation to Motorola in Chicago

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    On Friday, representatives from the four Studio 2 teams presented our mobile media life projects to Motorola in Chicago. Carrie Chan and I had the honor of giving our team’s presentation. The morning started off slow, as there were a lot of problems getting all of our presentations onto one of the Motorola laptops. Motorola…