Jamin Hegeman

Tag: cmu

  • 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…