Jamin Hegeman

Tag: visualization

  • Analyze the Personality of Your Blog

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    Want to figure out the personality of your blog? Check out Typealyzer. My writing on this blog comes out as ENTJ. There’s also a nifty visualization of the parts of the brain active during writing. ENTJ – The Executives The direct and assertive type. They are especially attuned to the big picture and how to…

  • Sketchcast Review

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    A recent comment led me to Sketchcast.com, a tool that allows you to draw and record what you’re drawing, with the idea that the visualizations can help you communicate your ideas. As a designer who is always open to new methods of visualization and communication of ideas, I set up an account and created the…

  • Visualizing Information Space

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    This project required me to visualize information space for the book Else/Where Mapping. It was to be either interactive or a time-based video. I chose the latter, because it is where I had the least experience. In combination with sketches, I prototyped ideas in Flash and experimented with animation early. I used the mapped structure…

  • Mapping the Invisible

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    Today I went to Martin Wattenburg’s lecture on mapping the invisible, during which he highlighted some of his work, including: Shape of Song NameVoyager Apartment I found the above three the most interesting. They’ve been around for a while, so there’s a chance you’ve already seen them. I can’t remember if I had been to…

  • Data Poster Critiqued by Ben Fry

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    After depriving myself of sleep and taking a chance that my poster would work it??????s way through the print queue in time for class (we were told to allow 48 hours and I submitted my job at 2 a.m.), I gladly hung my poster on the wall with everyone else during grad studio this afternoon.…

  • 668 Paths To Go

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    Although I spent all day working on my data visualization project, I’m still pretty much at square one, if you were to measure my current results by means of a finished project. I came into the studio late in the day to get some feedback to ensure I didn’t go down the wrong path and…

  • Design Studio and Grad Type

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    I’ve mostly been talking about my Design Seminar class with Dick Buchanan and my Interaction and Visual Interface Design with John Zimmerman because those classes involve more discussion of ideas, which are easier to write about. My other two classes, Design Studio with Dan Boyarski and Graduate Type with Karen Moyer (and later Kristin Hughes),…