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[...]
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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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
October 26th, 2009 - 8:00 pm § in Blog
Sendak Pumpkin
This weekend I took some time out from what has been a busy final semester and carved this Sendak pumkin. This is the first time I’ve carved a pumpkin in at least the past 10 years. Does it look like the guy from Where the Wild Things Are? [...]
October 25th, 2009 - 4:09 am § in Blog
Welcome to the new site!
Welcome! After a period of consideration, I decided to manage my portfolio site with WordPress instead of with Google AppEngine. The decision had to do with several factors, including the nature of the content I tend to update, my desire to work with a simple CMS, and my previous experience with the[...]
October 9th, 2009 - 2:07 pm § in Blog
Do You Speak Superbunny?
This semester I’m taking a course in Graphic Design. This is the outcome of one of the labs we did the other day. I was working on the bunny in class on Wednesday and the instructor came over and said “how about some gradients?” So that’s what I did. Enjoy. [...]
Mozilla Labs University Design Challenge: Clothing/Closet Metaphor
Tonight was the U-M SOCHI kickoff for the Mozilla Labs University Design Challenge, a challenge wherein Mozilla encourages students to innovate and experiment in user interface design. After some rapid sketching, we quickly formed teams and developed some of the concepts that had been sketched out. [...]
Personas: Good Man, Bad Man, Funnyman, Chick
Personas by Aaron Zinman is an online component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit put on by the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab. The installation crawls the web and aggregates a bunch of data, which it then turns into the color/word bars that you see below. After an initial obligatory se[...]