Open IXD 2011 Presentations
If you happened to miss the thesis presentations from SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design program last month, the videos are ...
Capturing the Interaction Design Thesis Process
Open House at SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design program seemed like it was only yesterday. I remember feeling my heart ...
A Chance to Parallax
For the final leg of my thesis project, I had to create a one page website that summarizes what my ...
Final User Journey
After a brief brainstorming session with fellow schoolmate and soon to be 2nd year student, Sera Koo, I came up ...
Shooting a Live User Journey
As you might have noticed, I usually do my user journeys in sketches, but being that this is my last ...
Wireframes and Prototypes
I spent the past week iterating and testing wireframes for the Story Forest iPhone app using the method as described ...
Story Forest Flowchart
Before moving to wireframes, I created the user task flows for Story Forest. By going through this process, I can ...
Story Forest Logo
This is a follow up to the sketches that I had posted earlier yesterday. As mentioned before, I was originally ...
Story Forest Logo Sketches
Here’s a quick first round sketch of logos for Story Forest. I’m leaning towards the last logo in the list ...
Paper Prototyping the Interactions with a Memory Tree
The interaction between people with their memory trees plays an important role in this project. To figure out whether or ...
User Journey (Initial Rough Draft)
Before diving into the user journey, I’d like to introduce you to Ethan. Ethan Currently Ethan is a young professional ...
Notes on Nostalgia
Most of what I’ve read so far aligns with the findings from my prototyping research. The content below also sheds ...
Story Forest
After my meeting with thesis adviser, Rob Faludi last Thursday, I’ve updated my statement to the following: Story Forest shares ...
1st Round of Prototyping
Last night, with the help of my brother, Will, I completed my first round of prototyping for Memori. Will was ...
Sticking with this Concept
In this post, I’ve finalized on my thesis concept and I’ll also be wrapping up questions from my last post ...
The City as a Memory Tool
How can moments, which are individually encapsulated at points within the urban landscape, self-reflect on our past to help us ...
Hometown Concept Map
“The steps in-between were more fulfilling than achieving the goal.” This statement, which was expressed in an interview with my ...
Marginalia Mania
A few days ago, we were fortunate to have Craig Mod speak at SVA’s MFA in Interaction Design’s Spring Lecture ...
Summarizing First Semester of Thesis Dev
Before the start of the semester, my thesis statement involved increasing mental and physical acuity among the elderly, but with ...
Systemic Thinking
After going through preliminary concepts for my initial thesis statement, I have realized that having such a general statement could ...
Pulling It All Together
After going through a couple of ideation processes and coming up with several different concepts, it’s time to synthesize everything ...
Elevator Arrival and Departure Times (Thesis Concept No. 3)
This concept focuses on making the time it takes to get to your floor more transparent so that you can ...
Word Up! (Thesis Concept No. 2)
About Word Up! Taking what I’ve learned from Chalk Walk along with some of the suggestions given to me by ...
Learning Over Time
During my years of undergrad, I used to sporadically tap my pencil to the music that my roommate blasted in ...
Prototyping Chalk Walk
Last week, our thesis development class held a brainstorming session where we broke up into groups to help each other ...
Business Model Canvas
Last week, we had a thesis workshop led by Manuel Toscano of the Helsinki Group in Jennifer Bove’s Thesis Development ...
Thesis Mile Marker
Before going on break last summer, I knew that I wanted to help the elderly. This topic struck a personal ...
Converging on Thesis Idea
Lots of converging and diverging lately on thesis ideas. Just to quickly restate what I’m currently working on: I am ...
Notes on Weight Loss & Exercise
As mentioned in articles by both the Guardian and Time.com, exercising alone doesn’t necessarily mean you will lose weight. According ...
Interviews About Fitness
Rick H. Interviewee #1 | Physically Active with Training Program Rick has been doing interval training during the past four ...
Changing Behaviors
So why do people do the things that they do? During a brief conversation with Rob Faludi (thesis advisor and ...
City Games – Thesis Proposal V1.0
What better time than now to change my thesis proposal again. Rather than another image of a house on fire, ...
Wish List
Inspired by the urban wishlist exercise that Jake Barton and Ian Curry presented in class, this will be an ongoing ...
Thesis Proposal V0.2
For my thesis, I would like to focus on how a public space can serve as a platform for older ...
Snowboarding in the Subway – 2nd Thesis Idea
Unlike my first idea, this new idea focuses on a younger audience. The question that I pose is, how can ...
Dancing with Lights – Thesis Proposal V0.1
Topic Statement Q: What problem are you taking on? A: The problem that I’d like to address is the decline ...
Finding and Maintaining One’s Inner Narrative
The following are notes and stories taken from the book that I found relevant to the ‘inner narrative’ that Dr. ...
Ideating and Prototyping at Ninety-Three
Mr. MacGregor, a 93 year old resident at the neurology clinic of St. Dunstan’s went to see Dr. Sacks, an ...
The Elderly in China
Before arriving into Shanghai, I wasn’t really sure what to expect of the elderly and their lifestyle here in the ...
Thesis Statement SVA IXD
Bear with me, but the following might be a bit general. I’m purposely leaving room for myself to budge around ...
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