Riding the Wave of Change

Lots of changes are happening around here. Not physically, but here on the web. After overcoming my denial with how broken the experience was around the site, I finally got off my ass to consolidate my pages within Wordpress. After a healthy update to the admin interface, I am now on my way to unified [...]

Apple Announces New iPods, Commercializing Touch Interfaces

Okay, so the new iPods are out, and they are hot (minus the nano, sorry). Wireless iTunes. Ringtones. 8GB iPhones get a $200 price cut. Starbucks partnership. So while everyone is getting their knickers in a bunch for whatever reason, this announcement brings many compelling questions to mind:
Apple is leveraging the huge iPod user base [...]

Greetings From Germany!

Hello dear friends, I am writing to you from Munich Germany.  It’s day 8 now and it has been a complete blast so far.  The culture here is wonderful. There’s so much about Europe in general that makes me happy. More specifically, everything is a lot more cleaner and effiencient here. The train system makes [...]

Life After Graduation

Three weeks have gone by quickly and already so much as happened. Even more exciting are the things that will be coming up. More to come on that later.
Since graduting from the wonderful University of Washington, everything seemed to just cruise along. I’ve moved back home over on the east side and it [...]

A Little Portfolio Demonstration

Created with Paul’s flickrSLiDR.
A lot of people don’t know exactly what I do. What is Informatics? What is Interaction Design? You’re artsy fartsy (wrong, but I do love art, and especially great design). So on and so forth. Well it occurred to me that while I have spent my long summer hours [...]

Health and Wellness: Sketches and Mock Ups

So our group decided to go with the shopping idea. Instead of having the user tote a list around, the list would be generated and remembered through a USB keychain. This keychain would be able to store, transact and record information the person’s consumption and purchasing habits. As a result, we can solicit [...]

Tabletop Touch Screen Brainstorming

Now this is useful:

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More On Multi-Touch Screens

Multi-touch screens are nothing new in the research world. If you don’t know what that is, just think of the new iPhone and using two fingers to “pinch” an image to shrink. Microsoft also has something similar when you manipulate a map with your hand gestures. This example is just more demonstrations of [...]

Health and Wellness: Concepts and Designs

Before I go any further, I’d like to point out that our initial website is up: Pebble In A Pond
wtf does that mean?!
Simply, it is a metaphor of our purpose. A single pebble dropped into a calm pond, causes ripples to spread further and wider. There is a dualistic relationship here: One is that [...]

Health and Wellness: Research and Analysis

Time for an update right? It’s been a week and by the way I’m naming these titles, it’s looking like a software development life cycle (SDCL *shutters*). I was hoping for a more agile approach, but then again, this is school and going through the processes is pretty essential. So from my previous post, [...]