Jamin Hegeman

Tag: identity

  • MetaMe — Masters Thesis Project

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    Abstract When people switch jobs, move to a new city, start school, or have a child, aspects of their identity change. For designers, this presents an opportunity to help people invent and discover who they would like to be in their new roles. But there is little evidence of design attempting to support this behavior.…

  • Identity Design

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    According to BusinessWeek, it’s all about me in 2008. Identity will replace experience in design. This bodes well for my thesis project, which is all about identity design. I’m so ahead of the curve.

  • Reconsidering Thesis Project

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    Over the weekend I was talking to a designer who created a skirt that lit up when you twirled. That’s great and all, but it seems like a lot of wearable projects do only that: light up given some condition. This got me thinking about wearables and the challenge of making a wearable that really…