April 2010
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Re-imagined Registration: Round 1
Here’s my first round of screen designs for my Information Architecture class. We’re working on redesigning the process of scheduling for classes. We’ve spent a lot of time so far this semester working out the behind the scenes details of personas, process flows, concept maps, wireframes and prototyping. So here’s the final stage of our project, the visuals.  Re-imagined...
Apr 6th
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What I did on my Spring Break.
During my Spring “break” I was lucky enough to get to do some creative work at Wall-to-Wall Studios, back in my good ol’ hometown of Pittsburgh. What you see above are a collection of icons I worked on for a Children’s Museum web site. These are all shrunk down a little bit, the real ones are larger and the type is actually legible. I think I did somewhere between 30–40...
Apr 3rd
February 2010
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Big Brother is watching. →
In Eastern PA a high school is caught installing software that activates the web cam on the laptops they provide students and spying on them. Unbelievable. How could anyone ever think this was a good idea or think they’d get away with it? If I lived there I’d be beyond furious.
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Feb 12th
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I want.
In case I haven’t already established myself as a huge nerd. Also, I promise to start writing some relevant design posts here in the very near future. Really.
Feb 5th
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Calvin and Hobbes
http://bit.ly/abxCoH The first interview with Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes since 1989. The man made the strip magical and managed to keep it that way by not allowing it to be bastardized via corporate promotions and gimmicky toys. I have a lot of respect for that. I really can’t say enough good things about this comic. There are no others like it. If you haven’t...
Feb 2nd
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Fire, Agriculture, Design: How Human Creativity... →
Feb 1st
January 2010
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Jan 30th
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Jan 27th
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Anil Dash: Applying Web 2.0 to the Government
Anil Dash: Applying Web 2.0 to the Government Big idea: To apply the lessons of Web 2.0 to government, through his new D.C.-based incubator, Expert Labs. “The great Web 2.0 businesses are really data engines built on info generated by purchasing, searching, posting, tweeting.” Dash’s goal is to exploit the massive amount of data that the government has and creates. Government...
Jan 26th
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Jan 25th
“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the...”
– —Calvin and Hobbes
Jan 18th
The Graphic Exchange →
Jan 18th