November 4, 2011
How to Decide How to Design
Instead of going to sleep early to hopefully rectify my declining health/unreasonable sleep schedule situation, I’ve stayed up to make this: Please use responsibly. (View gigantic version here.)
interaction design
March 22, 2011
Practicing frameworks
Last week, we began our Thesis Preparation seminar with Liz Danzico. After a great lecture on the merits of improvisation and keen observation skills, among other things, we were given our first assignment: to prepare a framework, or “pseudo-structure” (as Frank Chimero calls it), for a creative endeavor. (The assignment itself, in fact every assignment,…
March 6, 2011
HappyStat: a thermostat that smiles!
Last week in BERG’s workshop, we brainstormed ideas for ways to redesign thermostats. Here’s what my teammates, Kristin Breivik and Carrie Stiens, and I came up with. It’s a quick-n-dirty paper prototype for a thermostat concept that encourages you to keep your energy consumption lower than that of your neighbors: Check out the complete post…
March 5, 2011
Hopeful Monsters Workshop with BERG
This week we had an amazing workshop at school with Matt Jones and Jack Schulze from BERG, a design partnership in London. What made this workshop so amazing was that, for the first time in months, I felt like we were given license to actually go crazy and have fun. (Do not underestimate the import of these…