It's unfortunate that our submission did not get accepted to the student design competition. I was hesitant to post this news because any form of rejection is a hard pill to swallow. After receiving this discouraging news, I recall a phrase a senior designer told me: "We learn wisdom from failure ...

Last night I went to BayCHI's monthly program meeting to see Peter Merholz from Adaptive Path speak about their latest book, Creating Great Products and Services in an Uncertain World. He first started his presentation that media is a mess. Blogs are taking away readers from print media, the web is ...

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 ...

I finally get to catch up on some pleasure reading this holiday break. I know the Kite Runner is out in theaters, but I hear the book is much more compelling. "Sketching User Experiences. getting the design right and the right design", by Bill Buxton (Mar 2007) ...

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 ...