Jamin Hegeman

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  • CMU Design Alumni Inspire; “IxD” Discord

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    Design Grad Alumni Reunion Okay, so I mostly went to the alumni reunion party for the free food. When you’re chin deep in loans, “free” is the magic word. After the food and a drink or two, we convened for some Q&A with a panel of alumni. I don’t remember any of the names (I’m…

  • Design Studio and Grad Type

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    I’ve mostly been talking about my Design Seminar class with Dick Buchanan and my Interaction and Visual Interface Design with John Zimmerman because those classes involve more discussion of ideas, which are easier to write about. My other two classes, Design Studio with Dan Boyarski and Graduate Type with Karen Moyer (and later Kristin Hughes),…

  • Control Redesign: Gas Stove Knob

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    In my previous post, I failed to mention the control I redesigned. I choose a knob on my gas stove. Problems Turning the knob to Lite, which is also the highest gas setting, releases more gas than is necessary for pilot light to ignite gas. There is no indication of the lowest gas setting. Gas…

  • First Project Complete

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    You would think with a four-day weekend (I have no classes on Friday), I would have had time to complete my first project without losing sleep. Wrong. The project was to redesign a singular control for John Zimmeran’s Introduction to Interaction and Visual Interface Design. We had to produce a 11×17 color poster mounted on…

  • Why Do We Have Cans?

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    Last Friday, before the first week started, we got an email from John Zimmerman. He asked us to bring in a product we loved and one we hated. The first day of his class, Introduction to Interaction and Visual Interface Design, we all explained why we made our choices. This resulted in some interesting discussions…