I was fortunate enough to have the chance to get into Designing for Service with Jodi Forlizzi this semester. Our first project was simply to map three services. We could compare services within [...]
Time, Motion, and Communication I referred to this class as Time and Emotion for most of the semester because of the finger cramps, anxiety, and eye strain that went into the class. However, it [...]
It’s funny how things move in slow motion as you’re going through them but seem to speed up when you realize how much time has passed. Second semester of grad school seemed like a [...]
A lot of people have asked me since I’ve come back how graduate school is and what differences I see between it and college. Well first off, yes, they are indeed quite different. Especially [...]
1. Designers will use one of the following to differentiate items within a line of text: // . | x 2. They like having good product photography. That might include taking pictures of pets and [...]
One of the main things that has struck me about CMU is their two-folded approach to both functionality (training designers professionally) and philosophy (helping designers design for “the [...]
1. I dress better (or at least I’d like to think so). 2. I wear darker colors generally (yay designer stereotypes). 3. I eat better (woo off-campus lifestyle). 4. I have more intellectual [...]