Jamin Hegeman

Tag: Design

  • What is design thinking?

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    After reading Bruce Nussbaum’s recent article, Design Vs. Design Thinking, I have to ask, what is design thinking? Why? Because the way he refers to design thinking conflicts with my more or less ambiguous definition. The first thing that struck me was his reference to design thinking as a new field. New field? Is design…

  • Defining Design

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    Is defining design a worthwhile endeavor? Or should we just get on with it, do what we do and not analyze it so much? My rather amorphous thesis paper revolves around the process of design research to design concepts, supposedly within the realm of interaction design, but so far not really staying within that boundary.…

  • Designing for Beauty

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    Just finished watching Crash, and am now thinking about the ability films and other media have on stirring emotion and changing our perspective. I used to say that I never felt more emotional than during or after watching a film. There was a time when I would go to a film on a weekend night,…

  • Design-Emotion.com Seeks Female Design Experts

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    In response to my post on this site and my post on Adaptive Path’s blog, Marco Van Hout, of design-emotion.com, admitted that I busted him on having only men on his site. He is now looking for expert female designers to interview. I appreciate his transparency. Unfortunately, the essay I was researching that spawned the…

  • Support for a Connection Between Writing and Design

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    In relation to understanding the connection in my life between writing and design, I was inspired to read a comparison of the craft of writing to the craft of design in David Wroblewski’s “The Construction of Human-Computer Interfaces Considered as a Craft” from Taking Software Design Seriously. This was required reading for our seminar 2…

  • What’s wrong with “user testing”?

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    I’m talking about the verbiage. Bruce Hanington, who teaches my Research Methods for Human Centered Design course, tried to correct himself after saying “user testing.” He proffered that “product testing” is better because it alleviates the concern people have that they’re being tested. He’s not to first to make such an argument or to object…

  • Pluralism and Objectivity

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    My graduate seminar class with Dick Buchanan ended yesterday. For this last class, we discussed pluralism and objectivity, which Buchanan states as the fundamental problem of design. Why is it a problem? There is no subject matter in design. Designers make their subject matter. “This is a very peculiar thing,” Buchanan says. I agree. And…

  • Buchanan in Lisbon Impression

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    I received a report from the field about Dick Buchanan’s speech at the design conference in Lisbon last week. While subjective, I found it interesting and got permission to share it with you. Buchanan tells us that the design methods movement of the 1940s was largely concerned with design potentialities, productive science (the act of…

  • More Type Calendars

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    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.