Tag: cmu
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First Semester Over
The part of my brain that??????s been constantly analyzing my schedule and managing my time, planning what I need to do next and how long I??????ll have to do it, does not now know what to do. I turned in my final assignment, a process book for my digital music device project, today at 3:30…
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Final Week of First Semester
Last week was a crazy week. Each day something big was due. This week, I have my final presentation for the wearable music device for commuters that my team has created for John Zimmerman’s Interaction and Visual Interface Design class. Right now, that’s kicking my ass. As usual, I’m learning a bunch of stuff on…
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Pluralism and Objectivity
My graduate seminar class with Dick Buchanan ended yesterday. For this last class, we discussed pluralism and objectivity, which Buchanan states as the fundamental problem of design. Why is it a problem? There is no subject matter in design. Designers make their subject matter. “This is a very peculiar thing,” Buchanan says. I agree. And…
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Impact of Design on Humanity
Previously I mentioned a slight uneasiness with the notion that in some way designers hold an elevated status. What I may have really been recognizing is the burden of responsibility that design has on the designer, and the uneasiness was a realizing of the power of design in the wrong hands: i.e., someone who employs…
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Why Designers Are Valued
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…