Jamin Hegeman

Tag: Dan Saffer

  • The Most Influential Interaction Design Products

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    Dan Saffer recently asked, “If I asked you to name the most influential interaction design products, you would say…?” I found this question a bit confusing. It raised a lot of questions. My instinct was to respond by asking, “What product does not involve interaction design?” Next, “What do you mean by product?” Further, is…

  • Designing for Behavior

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    For a while now, when people ask me about being an interaction designer, I have explained it as designing for behavior: what, how, and why someone interacts with a product, service, or organization. As an interaction designer, I tread in the land of emotion, motivation, action, need, and desire. Like design itself, there need not…

  • Tony Golsby-Smith of 2nd Road Visits CMU

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    Last week, Tony Golsby-Smith, CEO of 2nd Road, the Sydney-based consulting company that focuses on shaping large-scale change, visited Richard Buchanan’s Design, Management, and Organizational Change class. Over the course of three hours, he shared his perspective on design and its role within 2nd Road. What follows are notes and thoughts from that conversation. Tony…

  • Bringing Emotion into the Design Process

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    I’d like to continue a comment about bringing emotion into the design process because I think it deserves its own post. Kip said: Design has some valuable roots in its ties with emotion, but in many ways we’ve lost touch. Can we bring a sophisticated discussion of “emotion” back on the table and include it…

  • Thoughts on Interaction08

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    I got back from the first Interaction Design Association (IxDA) conference, Interaction08, late Monday night after an 11-hour drive in a rented minivan with five other of my Carnegie Mellon peers. Rather than provide a blow-by-blow, I’ll apply a little bit of poetic license and start at the end. At the end of the second…

  • Design School 2007,
    Me in 2008, and a Blizzard

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    Happy new year +3! What follows is my experience in 2007 as a graduate student and the opportunities it afforded me, as well as what I will be doing in 2008. Finally, I mention the blizzard that is about to hit Mammoth Lakes, California, where I currently am. Design School and 2007 Two thousand and…

  • Bouncing Ideas Off Dan Saffer

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    One of the great things about being at Adaptive Path is that I have access to the cello-playing man who wrote Designing for Interaction, Dan Saffer. Today I sat down with him to talk about the direction my essay is going, as it’s somewhat of a commentary on the perception of interaction design in current…

  • Cupcakes and Cocktails

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    Tonight I went to a party dedicated to two of my favorite things: cupcakes and cocktails. The party took place at Satisfaction’s new space across the street from Adaptive Path. Previously, they were renting space within AP. I then went to an IxDA event in San Francisco, which involved about 10 more people than you…

  • CMU Alumni Party at Adaptive Path

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    On Sunday, I attended a CMU alumni get together at Adaptive Path in San Francisco. The event coincided with CHI being in San Jose this year. And CHI was the reason I was in SF. Dan Saffer was our host, so I got to talk with him a bit. One thing everyone seemed to mention…