November 2007
13 posts
Leveraging Diversity Charette
Video games shall bring us together. Ok, maybe we’ll need more than that, but it could be a start.
Last Saturday, Improve ID hosted a charette titled “Leveraging Diversity.” Originally focused on the international student experience at ID, it turned out to cover a bigger arena of diversity, and how to turn potential stumbling blocks into advantages.
Over thirty attendees including students,...
Bruce Mau: Designer’s Responsibility @ Archeworks
By: Andrew Buhayar + Ido Mor
Do You Know Larry Brilliant?
Bruce Mau gave a lecture on Wednesday (November 14, 2007) evening to a packed house at Archeworks —and no, the lecture was not completely about Larry Brilliant–but we’ll get to that …Mau’s essay for this lecture will be published for The Archeworks Papers, Volume 1, Number Five that will be released in Spring 2008.
His reading began...
ID Photography of the Past
Many students at the Institute of Design have taken a photography class, namely the foundation photography course, so often taught by John Grimes. With assignments like color strategy, quality of light, gesture, and portraits; students learn to see everyday life with new eyes. It is sometimes difficult to understand why certain assignments are given to students. After completing a course and...
New IDer: Tal Shay
Tell us a little about yourself.
I was born in Israel and lived there all my life. In ‘96, like all other Israeli 18 year olds I went into the army. That is where I started the journey that led me to discover the field of Usability. 11 years later I’m now 29, still nuts about it, and still got tons left to learn. I believe my major will be comm. design, but I’m also...
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Past IDer: Joyce Chen
Please introduce yourself in a sentence or two.
This California baby grew up outside D.C. (in Silver Spring, MD) but returned to the West coast for college and post-graduate employment. I moved to San Francisco after getting my MDes in Planning in May, 2007 and now live with two fellow ID grads (Mario Ruiz and Enric Gili Fort), working as an interaction designer and strategist at MetaDesign.
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Take fewer classes.
After writing this, I realized that it is a bit longer than most articles. It took Kayo three minutes to read it, and I hope you will take the time to finish it.
Every week, the New Yorker arrives in my mailbox. Folded in half, it fits neatly in my back pocket. I try to keep one on me wherever I go so I have something to read while I’??m on the bus or waiting for a friend. Or sitting on...
Maybe we are overthinking this
At the recommendation of a good friend, we attended a classical music performance headlined by young American composer Nico Muhly last Monday. Nico had been commissioned by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to compose a piece for the MusicNOW series.
Nico’s composition, Step Team, was uncharacteristically rhythmic for modern classical music, yet at the same time sufficiently removed from any...
Mystery Lecturette
Need a break from the monotony? Did you lose a mouse or lunchbox?
Come to this surprise Lecturette! You never know what will turn up, but we promise it will be fun. Here are the words of the presenter himself:
Design is sometimes about the unexpected. Come next Tuesday, November 13 to hear a lecture from a mystery guest you will at a minimum find entertaining, but who could change the way...
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Past IDer: Bruce Lund
Bruce Lund is toy-inventor and designer, originally from Lewiston NY, just North of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY. He spent 6 years in Durham, NC to attend Duke for Botany + Zoology, and then he began a business in leatherwork there and relocated the business in San Antonio. He moved to Chicago in 1977 and has been here ever since.
When did you graduate from ID and which program? MS Product...
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New IDer: Ruth Schmidt
Please quickly introduce yourself in a quick sentence.
Hi, I’m Ruth… everyone thinks I’m MDM because I’m 38 and I guess I look the part, but I’m am MDes graduating in Spring ‘09; I came in officially as Communication Design, but now that the tracks are disappearing I’m thinking of having a fling with Design Planning.
Married?
Yes - Dan’s an...
The Design of War
“Read Sun Tzu, The Art of War. Every battle is won before it is ever fought.”- Gordon Gekko to Bud Fox in the movie Wall Street.
Executives have long touted the relevance and applicability of the lessons from The Art of War to business (Google “Art of War” and “business,” and you will see what I mean.). So with design moving into the business world, can design draw parallels to war principles...
Observed
manly antiques
http://mantiques.net/
a great addition to any kitchen or bathroom http://www.galaxie-vac.com/sweep-away-%202.html
hell to make, fun (kind of) to use http://unlimited.orange.co.uk/flash/go
cell phone + lip stick + coffee = car accident. jessica hagy’s simple diagrams http://indexed.blogspot.com/
culture culture...
Jakob Nielsen Lecturette
Ever think someone could love business applications?
It may sound crazy to say that you can love your business applications. But, you know that special something about certain products that somehow gets you to fall in love with them? It is this very phenomenon that we on the Microsoft Dynamics User Experience Team are seeking to understand. It is our mission to develop products that go beyond...