Archive for the ‘ Thoughts ’ Category

Interactive Product Design Finals

Better late than never. Student projects from the Spring ‘10 Interactive Product Design Studio. [ READ MORE ]

Tackeling Programming Problems

One of the most important but difficult programming skills to acquire is the ability to break apart problems. But how does a student go from a fuzzy idea of some multi-media editing interface to the boolean logic of an if else statement when they have the barest grasp of program flow in the first place. [ READ MORE ]

Game Studies and IxD

Since undergrad I’ve found that most games are exceptionally sophisticated examples of designed interactivity whether poetic or instrumental. Back then there was a shrinking but present stigma, a common acceptance that games are not-serious. Not to say there weren’t a number of people taking these artifacts very seriously (beyond people looking for something to blame [ READ MORE ]

Teaching Processing

This quarter I’m an acting TA for the class “Interactive Product Design” over in the industrial design department. The primary goal for the quarter is to give students there a chance to tinker with Arduino and start thinking about how they can invest their forms with some embedded computing. Secondly, the class will also serve [ READ MORE ]

Spring Break

I’ve been silent. I’m on break. Until I get back, you might consider checking out Upgrade Complete by Armor Games. While it claims to comment on the backward-ness of game achievements and grinding, it unwittingly makes for a rather interesting study. In Upgrade Complete, a sci-fi SCHMUP, players destroy alien ships for points which can be [ READ MORE ]

On Interaction Design

•Disciplines are based on metaphoric framings and the knowledge from them. In the Invisible Computer by Donald Norman he presents an illustration that shows chairs created by several related but distinct disciplines. Each chair, sharing the same impetus for its creation, is indelibly marked by the frame from which its creators work. The manufacture’s chair is [ READ MORE ]

Beer Clock

Instructions: Let run during class. (Statistics are only guaranteed to be applicable for SCAD students). [ READ MORE ]

Metaphorically Speaking

In 1980 George Lakoff and Gregg Johnson published Metaphors We Live By. The book made the case that most of our thinking is largely metaphorical in nature; that we directly apply our understanding of the less abstract to the more abstract. Their description of metaphoric language as reflective of a thinking mind irrevocably situated in [ READ MORE ]

Thesis Prospectus Introduction

  • February 26th, 2010
  • Posted in Thoughts

Interactivity is most commonly described in terms of a conversation.1 While useful in separating the study of complex interactivity from that of traditional static forms, this description is of little use to those designers who wish to get a hand on the design of such interactivity. Some reasons for this can be found in where [ READ MORE ]

This post was not written by a thinking being.

Is being written not a thought transcribed (nor transcribing) but a thinking be-ing? [ READ MORE ]