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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
I love Netflix, but…
I think Netflix has a really good user interface. I even sang its praises in a short paper I wrote for my Fundamentals of Human Behavior class last spring. They take the elements of what is fun about picking out a video from a video store and transfer it to an online portal. I especially [...][...]
Oh, and did I mention Information Visualization?
Last semester I took a course in InfoVis with an interesting bunch of folks who produced an impressive set of projects. My classmate, Katie McCurdy, did the footwork of blogging about each of the projects, her entry about which can be found here. You can go to my portfolio page about the project to [...]