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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 [...]

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 [...]

Notes from Hugh Dubberly’s Talk:Design education must change and change quickly: 

The sensor web
The mobile web
The video web

Really cool products will evolve even more and have impact:Nintendo Wii/Wii-moteWorld of Warcraft (truly bazaar)Macs have accelerometers in themWalmart is requiring RFID tags in every productSensor revolution in micro-harvesting of grapes (put sensors on the vines to track where best [...]

finding myself doing a number of these type of diagrams while job searching.  Trying to find my ‘balance’ in the overall hunt.  Thought you might like this.   You’re welcome.