RSS

March 8th, 2010 - 4:56 pm § in Uncategorized

Protected: Ergonomics

There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.[...]

February 22nd, 2010 - 1:00 pm § in Blog, HCI

Night Beacon

Night Beacon is a project developed during my Interaction Design course as part of a team of five. As part of the CHI student design competition, our team was challenged to think about the problem of walking. Early in the process, we decided to narrow the problem of walking into that of walking at[...]

January 27th, 2010 - 11:16 am § in Blog, HCI

What percentage of your drafted tweets do you actually post?

I draft more tweets than I actually post to twitter. I probably post about 55% of my drafted tweets. I think to myself, “who really wants to hear this?” every time I draft one. Whatever my reasons for hitting “post,” I’ve started asking people this question, and found a[...]

January 5th, 2010 - 11:25 am § in Blog, HCI

Re-imagining to Curate

Starting this month, I am going to be re-designing some websites for the organization I’ve been working with for about a year now. Re-imagining the site(s) comes at a time of change for our organization, which records and archives lecture materials, making new kinds of knowledge available to t[...]

November 10th, 2009 - 11:05 am § in Blog, Michigan Love

My Guest Essay at Generation Y Michigan

Generation Y Michigan is a journalism project spearheaded by Lauren Silverman that attempts to understand why Gen Yers (like myself) are staying or leaving our mitten, and as I visited the site yesterday morning (after NPR played a story from the site that hit close to home), I decided to write abou[...]

November 8th, 2009 - 12:00 pm § in Blog, HCI

Affordances!

The past few weeks I’ve been getting an education in affordances. This is not to be confused with having Norman’s Design of Everyday Things assigned, followed by a brief discussion, conclusion and let’s move on. Rather, we’ve been getting into the nitty-gritty details of why[...]