During my first semester, one of my instructors was constantly telling us that to be good designers (or usability practitioners, as is my goal), then we need to be constantly reflecting on what we’re doing and learning in school. We had a class blog, and he encouraged us to keep our own blogs for [...]
Archive for January, 2008
18 Jan
Smash Lab (a designer’s perspective)
My fiance and I are huge fans of the Mythbusters TV show on the Discovery Channel. If you’re not familiar with it, the premise is a team of special effects experts put myths and urban legends to the test to see if they could be real. But, basically, it’s an excuse for them to just [...]
17 Jan
Designing the Gambling Experience
Last month, my fiance, sister, father and I spent a day at an Off Track Betting site in my old hometown about 2 hours away. For those of you who are not familiar with OTBs, they are places where you can go to watch–and, more importantly, bet on–whatever horse racing tracks are running around the [...]
17 Jan
IU HCI Blogs
So, while I’m not new to blooging, this is the first “official” blog I’ve created specifically for school. Blogging has been highly recommended by several professors and students in the HCI grad program. Several of my IU HCI collegues have blogs as well. I was going to try to collect them all [...]
