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Biomimicry - Waste Management: Part 5
This week, we are in the final stages of our project. We were able to successfully launch a survey and card sort activity where we...
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- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
Biomimicry - Waste Management: Part 4
Biomimicry is such a fascinating topic to explore and now that we (My group and I) are a couple of weeks into this project, we have been...
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- Nov 30, 2021
- 2 min
Let's Tell a Story!
In this week's reading, our lecture and readings focused on using your research to tell a story, user personas, and how to break down...
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- Nov 23, 2021
- 2 min
Biomimicry - Waste Management: Part 3
For my project this week, I explored various design methods by going through Hanington & Martin's, " Universal Methods of Design". This...
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- Nov 22, 2021
- 1 min
Make, Make, and Remake!
Prototyping and Brainstorming was the theme of this week's readings and lectures. In Piantella's lectures, she gives us a few steps to...
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- Nov 16, 2021
- 2 min
Biomimicry - Waste Management: Part 2
This week, my group and I met together to discuss the possible stakeholders for our project. We decided to narrow our location to just...
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- Nov 13, 2021
- 2 min
What's Your Method of Design?
This week's lectures and readings reached further into various design methods and research. In "The Importance of People", Piantella...
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- Nov 9, 2021
- 3 min
Biomimicry - Waste Management
"Biomimicry is the emulation of the systems and elements of nature for the purpose of solving complex human problems." I hadn't heard of...
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- Nov 9, 2021
- 2 min
How Do We Research?
In this week's lectures and readings, I was really appreciative of the content especially from Benedetta Piantella and Mathew Frankel....
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- Nov 2, 2021
- 3 min
Time Capsule - Part III
For the final part of my time capsule, I decided I wanted to create a comic to bring the story to life. My story for this project is...
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- Oct 30, 2021
- 2 min
Strive For Progress, Not Perfection!
The lecture "Dividing Projects In Phases" by Benedetta Piantella couldn't have come at a better time. I am guilty of trying to make...
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- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
Time Capsule Part II
This week's assignment took me a lot longer to think about than the rest. I would normally have a clear idea of what I would like to make...
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- Oct 23, 2021
- 2 min
Understanding Comics
This week's reading "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud took us into the makings of comics and the various styles used when they are...
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- Oct 19, 2021
- 3 min
Time Capsule Part I
This project took a lot of thought and several days to fully decide what I wanted to include in my Time Capsule. While looking around my...
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- Oct 17, 2021
- 2 min
Storytelling is an Art Form
While reading this week's lecture, I enjoyed the connection of storytelling to philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Confucius etc. It...
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- Oct 4, 2021
- 4 min
Candy Crush- Translating Affordances
Candy Crush is one of those popular games that everyone couldn't stop talking about when it came out. It was incredibly addicting and...
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- Oct 3, 2021
- 2 min
"Humans Think Through Metaphors"
In the lecture "Models & Metaphors", metaphors are explained with their relation to design and how we use them throughout our language....
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- Sep 26, 2021
- 3 min
The Hawksbill Turtle
The Hawksbill turtle is considered to be critically endangered with a population of about 10,000 in the world. They are mostly found in...
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- Sep 25, 2021
- 3 min
"Should the Future of Interaction be a Single Finger?"
I don't believe I've resonated so much with an article like "A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design" by Bret Victor. It...
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- Sep 19, 2021
- 2 min
Let Your Mind Be Free - 50 Shades
50 different renderings can seem like a lot when your are overthinking the process. When I first heard of the assignment, I immediately...