Babblings

This personal blog is a portal through which I do my best deep soul snorkeling, about design to relationships, to life.

Interaction15

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February 19, 2015
[vc_row][vc_column width="1/1"][vc_column_text disable_pattern="true" align="left" margin_bottom="0"]I have been lucky enough to attend the Interaction15 Conference hosted by IxDa in San Francisco last week. It was a great experience to not only meet professionals but gain …

Designing for service or servicing design?

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January 26, 2015
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 a …

Understanding immersion in disciplinarity as a process

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January 23, 2015
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text disable_pattern="true" align="left" margin_bottom="0"]At CMU, and especially in the design department, we pride ourselves on being interdisciplinary* - in the approaches we use, in the people we work with, and in the results we …

Reflections of 2014

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January 1, 2015
It's been a hard year but I hope the new year will be touched by wonder and filled with hope. Lessons Learned: 1. Now or never. If you want to do something for yourself, do …

Maggie Centres

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December 15, 2014
A couple of months ago I went to a talk by Charles Jencks at the Carnegie Museum of Art about Maggie Centres. I had never heard of this before but due to recent events, it …

Reflections of Grad School (Round 3)

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December 15, 2014
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 was an …

Find the fruit (app)

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November 16, 2014
I’m constantly overwhelmed, underwhelmed, and confused by the changes within the “app system” that currently exists and the constant modifications to workflow that don’t seem to actually lead to any greater productivity. The new …

Personal Branding

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October 22, 2014
I have spent the last week in perpetual frustration attempting to figure out how to "re-brand" myself. I've done numerous design exercises, compiled all of my previous "branding" work, and whiteboarded until the dogs …

Flash from the past

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October 13, 2014
Last year, in an endeavor to better organize myself I started furiously documenting all of my freelance work. I actually attempted to sort through the "dump folder" I had created. I revisited the folder …

Summer Internship 2014

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September 5, 2014
Backplane creates a social media platforms for communities. The concept centeres around "walled gardens" and creating a safe space for people to discover interests and interact with others exploring those interests. I worked as …

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