the color of laughter dancing through your veins, so vibrant it startles a funereal yellow that shows its age, but sweetly

Attended a workshop at Stanford this afternoon hosted by IDEO CTO Doug Solomon and Lead of Connected Health Domain Arna Ionescu. It’s encouraging that the process we went through in the brainstorming session was so familiar. Guess I learned something in the past year of grad school! Posted via email from corinna’s posterous

In a recent talk at Carnegie Mellon University, American statistician and professor emeritus Edward Tufte said “Respect your audience.” Pithy advice, but what does it mean? Tufte goes around the U.S. conducting seminars on information design, so presumably he directed these words at information designers, people whose primary goal is the effective communication of information. [...]

I think I am now addicted to inspiration. Today’s TEDxCMU event featured speakers ranging from entrepreneurs to artists to musicians to writers. Actually, most (if not all) of them fell into more than one of those categories. In order of appearance: Jonathan Fields A former attorney turned author, blogger, and entrepreneur, his talk (according to [...]

Spring break has come and gone without really being. At least, that’s how it felt as I spent all week in Pittsburgh, reading and writing for school assignments and thesis preparation. I am glad I got things done, though, especially when I consider all that lies ahead. A quarter-long mini course I had been taking, [...]

I just attended a university lecture by Chuck Klosterman, journalist, pop culture philosopher and author of books such as Eating the Dinosaur. In a self-aware storyteller style reminiscent of a stand-up comic, he talked about a variety of things, including Why are things the size they are? How are a blues club and a zoo [...]

I turned in a first draft of my paper entitled “What is interaction design?” this morning for seminar, churned through the weekend’s trend analysis findings with my studio classmates this afternoon, went home, took a nap, and arose groggily an hour later feeling like I just came out of a weekend-long design bender that I [...]

I just finished making an interactive composition in Flash for my Computing in Design class entitled “Help Hammy.” My concept was inspired by the Lucas Arts puzzle adventure games, in which a player explores and interacts with the environment in a spirit of playful discovery. “Help Hammy” was my first serious foray into Actionscript, which [...]

One of the instructors in my graduate design seminar related a reaction that someone once had during a class exercise years ago. It went something like this: “Why should my work serve future generations? What have they ever done for me?” He brought it up as an example of the egocentrism he wishes designers to  [...]

I am learning new words, and some new meanings for old words, in the course of my graduate education and thought it might be helpful to start compiling a list for my own reference. Keep in mind that these are the definitions I have pieced together from various readings and, as such, they may be [...]