Tag: motorola

  • CMU Writeup on Motorola Work

    CMU has a news story in its Corporate Visitors section regarding the studio 2 projects with Shelley Evenson we did this past spring in collaboration with Motorola. It includes a definition of interaction design by Shelley, and a synopsis of each group’s concept. Notable is the article’s focus on interaction design, referring to the studio…

  • Motorola Struggling

    The New York Times reports Motorola is struggling. The management of Motorola, the ailing mobile phone maker, has promised to turn the company around. Instead, Motorola’s troubles worsened yesterday when it announced that sales would fall considerably short of earlier projections and forecast a quarterly loss. Mr. Zander has said Motorola’s struggles reflect a handful…

  • Video Sketches vs. Cartoon Scenarios

    I volunteered to give brown bag presentation at Adaptive Path on the mobile media research and concept my team did for Motorola last semester. I really didn’t know what they would think. The most conversation centered around the value of the scenario video sketch versus a lower fidelity demonstration of the concept. Jesse James Garrett…

  • Mobile Presentation to Motorola in Chicago

    On Friday, representatives from the four Studio 2 teams presented our mobile media life projects to Motorola in Chicago. Carrie Chan and I had the honor of giving our team’s presentation. The morning started off slow, as there were a lot of problems getting all of our presentations onto one of the Motorola laptops. Motorola…

  • First Two Weeks at Adaptive Path

    As I’m going to Chicago to present our final Studio 2 presentation to a different set of folks at Motorola, I am done with Adaptive Path for the week. That means my first two weeks at AP are behind me. So what have I been up to? Not too much. But I don’t say that…

  • Motoroo: Motorola Mobile Media Project

    Mobile Media Life was a collaborative project with Motorola to explore imaging, communicating, visualizing, and viewing in everyday life. The goal was to help people become skilled at enjoying, producing and interacting with rich media at work, school, or play thorough new interfaces and services on mobile devices. This purpose of this project was to…

  • Interning at Adaptive Path

    Just a brief note to say I recently accepted an offer to work at Adaptive Path over the summer. I’m super excited to experience what they’re all about and check out San Francisco. I start the end of May and finish in early August. Should be a good time. In other news, my illness has…

  • Moto Research Presentation a Success

    Today we talked about the feedback we got from Motorola on our exploratory research presentations we delivered on Monday. First we talked collectively. Then Shelley Evenson met with each team to provide her feedback. Shelley said our presentation was fantastic, which my team was delighted to hear, as we did not get a good vibe…

  • No Such Thing as a Weekend

    From 10 a.m. Saturday morning till 1:30 p.m. Monday, my team and I worked on a presentation of our exploratory research for Motorola. Sadly, weekends have become simply days without class interruptions. The presentation went well, of sorts. The peeps from Motorola didn’t seem too keen on our exploration of the whole experience of a…