Jamin Hegeman

Tag: Richard Buchanan

  • Practicing Design on Wicked Problems

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    In response to a previous comment, I tried to define what an interaction designer does in rebuttal to the assertion that the goal is to build a better mousetrap. I wrote: From an interaction design standpoint, you might ask why we have mousetraps? Are mice the real problem? How do mice get into areas where…

  • 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…

  • Why Learn the Arts?

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    Dick Buchanan is in Lisbon for the 2006 Design Research Society International Conference, so today Carl DiSalvo filled in, and nearly stumped us by asking a basic question about our current topic of interest: the arts. “Why learn the arts” he asked. There was a pause, perhaps because it was a tough question to start…

  • Understanding Interaction

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    Last week we had to turn in our first paper for Dick Buchanan’s design seminar course. The first four pages were to discuss the central features of each of the four modes of interaction we had studied. The next two pages were to discuss the relationship of form and matter in the four modes. This…

  • Learning the Arts

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    Today in our design seminar, we started what Dick Buchanan referred to as the third part of the course: making connections that are significant. (Honestly, I’m not sure what parts one and two were, since I can only think of one previous part: defining the four modes of interaction. Nonetheless, there is so much brain…

  • Plato Knows Interaction

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    We’re reading Plato to explore the fourth mode of interaction: person and cosmos. I’m sure most people would not understand why we’re reading Plato to learn about design. It’s possible there are those in my class that feel the same way. I find it extremely interesting to approach Plato and Aristotle—his Poetics was the previous…

  • Interacting in a World With No Meaning

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    I’m going to preface this post by saying I am not going to do this topic justice. We read “Communication: The Context of Change” by Dean Barnlund for Dick Buchanan’s class. It was actually a really good read, and quite accessible, unlike some of the other readings. The three questions Dick always asks about the…

  • A Real Taste of Dick

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    Much as I expected, my idea of “data” was completely off the mark. For 80 minutes this morning, Dick Buchanan tortured us with questions and rhetoric trying to extract the four types of data. No one had a clue. I’m not sure if Dick enjoyed pulling our teeth, or if he thought we should have…

  • It’s Only Tuesday

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    Have I really already completed two days of grad school? Have I really only completed two days of grad school? Surely, it’s not Tuesday already. And surely, it’s not only Tuesday? I am just beginning to understand how this is going to rock my world. My life as I knew it before, my life as…