Jamin Hegeman

Tag: ixda

  • Speaking at IxD10

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    I will be speaking at the Interaction 10 conference on Friday, February 5 in Savannah. The title of my talk will be “Service Design: an Interaction Design Perspective.” What is service design? How is it different from interaction design? Or isn’t it? As an interaction designer with service design education and experience, I will offer…

  • 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…

  • Moving to SF insane?

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    Saw this comment from Dave Malouf on the IxDA list: You’ve gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just insane to leave anyplace including NYC and move to SF unless you were guaranteed something between $150k-$200k, and HUGE relocation package upwards of $20-$30k. Having done relocates to both coasts I’m pretty familiar with what it takes at…

  • 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…

  • At Interaction08 in Savannah

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    If you thought this was a roundup of the conference, I apologize. I just wanted to say that I’m at the IxDA Interaction08 conference in Savannah and am heading off to the opening keynote by Alan Cooper in a moment. Yesterday, a crew of six of us from Carnegie Mellon drove from Pittsburgh to Savannah…

  • CHI Paper Not Accepted

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    Yesterday I received word that the work-in-progress paper I submitted to CHI was not accepted. As it was not my idea to submit to CHI because I do not view it as a good view for design, I was not disappointed. However, I will gripe about the comments I received because they emphasize CHI’s lack…

  • How I Became a Designer

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    This post is inspired by Jack Moffet’s Mystory, which was inspired by a recent IxDA discussion on when/where/how you decided to become a designer. To answer this question, I could go through my life story—army » engineering » poetry » journalism » web producer » editor » web developer—but that would be rather long and…

  • Pittsburgh IxDA

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    I went to a Pittsburgh IxDA meeting tonight. I believe this was the third meeting, so it??????s really in its infancy. There were only five of us, including two CMU graduate design students (Simon and me). The meeting was organized by Michele Marut, a human factors specialist at Respironics. There was also David Bishop, Director,…