Tag: cmu
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I Was a Guest Lecturer
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…
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GoCoffee Web Process Book Complete
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…
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More Type Calendars
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.
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Type Calendar
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…
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Stuff Makers
??????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…