I went on the academic job market last fall, and, with help and support from friends, colleagues, and people I’ve never met, I managed to
Category: design methods
Amazon.com Product Ratings
I teach an introductory course on human-centered design here at Penn State, and the students in my class recently completed a redesign of the product
Visual Thinking + Discourse Analysis
One question many discourse analysts ask when they’re familiarizing themselves with data is: how could things be different? If you’re comfortable messing around with Photoshop
design course development
I’ve been sketching some new ideas for undergraduate design courses, and, although I came up with these with a particular program in mind, they could
human-centered design education
I piloted an in-class activity with my human-centered design class today. In preparation for class, students read Don Norman’s essay, Human-Centered Design Considered Harmful. Then,
the first design problem
There’s a great line in a recent exploration of near-future UX issues. It goes: Design is about solving problems. And deciding how to solve a
