Jamin Hegeman

Tag: cmu

  • Learning the Arts

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    Today in our design seminar, we started what Dick Buchanan referred to as the third part of the course: making connections that are significant. (Honestly, I’m not sure what parts one and two were, since I can only think of one previous part: defining the four modes of interaction. Nonetheless, there is so much brain…

  • Design Books

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    For each class I’m taking, there’s a recommended reading list. Where I might find the time to read all the recommended books, I have no idea. But I did create an Amazon wish list with many of the books I would like to read at some point. Can’t remember if I mentioned this (can’t remember…

  • I Was a Guest Lecturer

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    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 instructor, Cheryl Riedel, offering to have me be a guest lecturer…

  • GoCoffee Web Process Book Complete

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    The web process book for my team’s mobile information project is complete. Here’s your chance to see the process and final demonstration of the GoCoffee interface. The next project for the class, designing a digital music player, has already begun with new teams. My team is designing a wearable music device for commuters. Our initial…

  • More Type Calendars

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    How did I spend my Saturday night? Why designing calendars, of course! Yeah, my previous calendar was a bit safe (and grad is not the place for safe). So I experimented some more. I think I could spend the next 30 years working on this, which makes Thursday’s deadline seem all too soon.

  • Type Calendar

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    As I mentioned before, my typography class has been a challenge for me. Next week all of the projects from the first half of the course are due, as we will be switching instructors from Karen Moyer to Kristin Hughes. Our last project is designing a calendar. For whatever reason, I got a billion ideas…

  • Stuff Makers

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    ??????We are the stuff makers. That is our role as designers,?????? says John Zimmerman. Today we began our next interaction and visual interface design assignment: digital music player. My new group, consisting of fellow graduate student Sook and an industrial design undergraduate, will be creating a new player for commuters. We read Don Norman??????s Emotion…

  • Plato Knows Interaction

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    We’re reading Plato to explore the fourth mode of interaction: person and cosmos. I’m sure most people would not understand why we’re reading Plato to learn about design. It’s possible there are those in my class that feel the same way. I find it extremely interesting to approach Plato and Aristotle—his Poetics was the previous…

  • GoCoffee Presentation

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    The GoCoffee team (Kip, Rachel, and I) presented our mobile interface this morning with great success, despite a snafu where the Flash demonstration did not play correctly in the middle of me speaking. But we rolled with it. Kip, the other grad on the team, stepped up and asked if there were any questions up…