Tag: cmu
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Service Design Applied to Airport Security
For our first project in Designing for Service, our groups were asked to create a service that will foster flow at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) security screening stations at the airport. The two biggest restrictions we had were little experience in designing a service and having only one week to complete the project. Our…
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The Truth About Design Research
Dan Saffer is a funny man. Watch the first five minutes of his presentation How to Lie with Design Research at the Design Research Conference. This opening is intriguing, especially the remark about “getting on the design research bandwagon” before it takes off for the ultimate goal of making money. Is design research a fad?…
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The Dichotomy of Interaction Design
There’s a great debate on the IxDA list regarding what interaction designers can actually do. This is an issue I’ve been pondering, and it’s interesting that the people I agree with are CMU IxD alums—Jeff Howard and Jack Moffet (where is Dan Saffer?). The gist of the argument is that interaction designers cannot design for…
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Beginning Thesis Paper Readings
With Emergence over, my attention has turned to my neglected theses endeavors. Earlier this week I bought a bunch of books, some of which arrived the past few days. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design (Interactive Technologies) by Bill Buxton The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert A. Simon Design…
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Emergence 2007 Reflections
We did it! After nine months of planning, the conference went off splendidly. The team and I are pretty pleased with ourselves. We succeeded in bringing in more money and more registrations than we had hoped, and were also successful in bringing together a diverse group of speakers and attendees. We got a lot of…