Jamin Hegeman

Tag: Dan-Boyarski

  • Searching for a New Head

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    At the end of this semester, Dan Boyarski, the current head of the School of Design, is stepping down after six years. Dan has an inspired character and has done an excellent job representing the school. His personality and teaching ability helped seal my decision to apply to the interaction design program at Carnegie Mellon.…

  • Visualizing Information Space

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    This project required me to visualize information space for the book Else/Where Mapping. It was to be either interactive or a time-based video. I chose the latter, because it is where I had the least experience. In combination with sketches, I prototyped ideas in Flash and experimented with animation early. I used the mapped structure…

  • Email Visualization

    Email Visualization

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    The purpose of this project was to create a self-portrait using data collected about myself over the course of a week and represent it visually. I started by tracking my communications, then narrowed my focus to three email accounts: personal; work; and school. Between the sketches and the final, there was a careful balance of…

  • 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),…