Finally I finished updating my portfolio based on the comments I received from critiques. Two weeks ago, I presented my portfolio in the front of my design studio class. I received criticism and feedback from all my colleagues and Eli Blevis. I'm happy with the outcome... for now. As designers ...  Continue Reading »

Tomorrow Phoebe Sengers an Assistant Professor in Information Science and Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University will be in our Experience Design class. We will be discussing a paper written by her and Bill Gaver titled "Staying Open to Interpretation: Engaging Multiple Meanings in Design and Evaluation". She is ...  Continue Reading »

For our service learning project in our design-studio course, my team is working with the City of Bloomington to help formulate some ideas and long-term solutions to increase the activity in the downtown area. A few weeks ago we interviewed the Executive Director of the Bloomington Area Arts Council ...  Continue Reading »

What are the visual rules that stimulate attention? This is one question behind View Finder Heatmap, a project inspired by the last 25 years of research in artificial vision and neurological studies on perception and cognition. The tool was built by Feng-GUI Lab, a group of artificial vision scientists and ...  Continue Reading »