Tag: Teaching

  • Intro to Design Computing

    This fall I am teaching Introduction to Design Computing, a required course for first-year interaction design graduate students at Carnegie Mellon. Last year, I waived the course because it was primarily a Flash course and I had six years of professional Flash development and design experience. This year, a couple students asked to waive it…

  • Teaching Next Semester

    A while back Dan Boyarski asked if I would teach Introduction to Computing in Design this fall, and I accepted. The title of the course doesn’t say a lot, and the current description is even worse. But essentially I will be teaching the incoming interaction design students how to prototype in Flash. I can’t say…

  • I Was a Guest Lecturer

    Over the summer, during my design fundamentals training, I had a bit of an argument with the instructor of one of my software training sessions about table-based web design versus CSS web design. The argument was positive, however, in that it ended with the instructor, Cheryl Riedel, offering to have me be a guest lecturer…

  • Debating About Courses

    As an interaction design student, I have four courses that I was automatically signed up for, all of which are required. One of the courses, Design Computing, is primarily as Flash course. As I have designed and developed with Flash for many years, I got this course waived. I then signed up for Graduate Typography.…