Today wasn't as nearly as hectic as yesterday. We visited two companies. Hewlett Packard HP has been around since 1950's and from my observations they are a traditional corporate company. However renovations were being made to improve the work environment more modern looking. At HP we met with another former IU Alum ...

The IU (Indiana University) Human Computer Interaction Design and Computer Science graduate students visited Silicon Valley to get a glimpse of the corporate life of many well-known high-tech companies. For many of them it was their first trip to California and it was a ton of fun showing them where ...

I finished my first semester of graduate school with a mixture of sadness and relief. It's definitely been a roller coaster ride for me, both mentally and physically. Throughout the semester, when feeling fatigue and mentally exhausted, I always remember what a second year grad-student, Will Odom told me, ...

Marion Buchenau and Jane Fulton Suri of IDEO describes experience prototyping as a form of prototyping that enables design team members, users and clients to gain first-hand appreciation of existing or future conditions through active engagement with prototypes. I heard of the term before, but I did not have a ...

These past couple of days I've been working on my design portfolio in preparation for my Silicon Valley trip in December. Making the transition from engineering to interaction design, I'm a bit concerned on how to construct an effective portfolio for IxD internships this summer. I've been researching some information ...