February 2012
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Grad school chicken pox
Grad school chicken pox isn’t physical, it’s mental. I’m coming understand this affliction as the point in time when you decide to deal with a part of yourself that’s always needed a bit of work. You also know that avoiding it any longer will only make your life much more difficult than it already is. My classmates have talked about their own experiences with this rite of...
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Take Note
Challenge Millions of people traverse, occupy, work, live, and use the city at any given time. By prospect of being here, they interact with the city constantly.
Create a digital artifact that communicates the theme “Interactions with the City”. Give the publication a name, a logo, and a personality. Focus will be on using principles of design and UX.
Approach NYC is an incredibly...
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Taste Home
Team Members: Guri Vensted, Tash Wong
Challenge A look at finding what you need amidst a sea of information, and getting it into a form for personal decoding. Find isn’t only a function that occurs on computers. We are tasked with finding things all everyday: directions, prices, our keys, people, and more. As the complexity of information grows, we must become more creative in our methods...
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Caption
Team Members: Barbara deWilde, Prachi Pundeer, Tash Wong
Caption is a response to a design challenge to create a product or service that meets an unmet need around the management of time.
Challenge We point our camera and take a picture, capturing a moment in time. Not long ago, film encouraged us to carefully edit our photos, and the time and money invested the photographic process drove many...
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Growing Up
Team Sarah Adams, Tom Harman, Tash Wong
Challenge Save isn’t only a function that occurs on computers or with photographs. It embodies our connection to information on a physical and emotional level. It can even inform how we identify ourselves to the rest of the world.
Concept and prototype a way to improve a particular behavior around saving things. This could seek to alter the emotions behind...
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Getting Together: Interaction 12, Day 2
This blog post is part of a series on Interaction 12 by SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design Despartment. The original post is can be found here.
Day 2 was a good day. I got up at 8:30AM, made some breakfast, then walked down to the Convention Center. During the 25 minute walk from our apartment, I got to wander and take in the sights and sounds of the Dublin morning commute. The River Liffey is...