Archive for the 'Carnegie Mellon' Category

had an “a-ha” moment

October 16th, 2009

While charged with a project to design a site to showcase a font collection, I fell into the flawed approach of “designing for the self” instead of the user that the Contextual Inquiry was actually *performed*.  Luckily, I caught myself before any methods of the research toolkit were breached.  Sometimes I look back and wish [...]

Information Gap Theory

September 3rd, 2009

During my MHCI Capstone Project, I became fascinated with visualizing networks and information.  As a team, we used several methods to visualize networks (speed dating, participatory design, peer critiques, etc.), we came up with many ways to visualize networks in the form of people, content, and resources.  But, what I think is even more interesting [...]

MHCI Project Complete!

August 11th, 2009

Say it with me people, D-O-N-E.  Wow.  I fell like a huge weight has lifted.
I also feel very lucky to have worked with Nick, ZQ, Varnali, and [yes, even him] Paul this summer.  I learned so much.  Even though I felt very old being around a bunch of bright young things [age range of 23-28], [...]

I think he has a future, he just has to keep his pants on.

January 22nd, 2009

I was just told a cute story by Judy Abrams (Director of Cyert Center for Early Education) that President Cohen visited the school yesterday and Christian was the only child in Pre1 who would talk to him.  Since he was tall and no one had seen him before all of the other children just looked [...]