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Remote user research - Intel industry project

Ashwin Rajan wrote 7 months ago: Here are further notes on generating insights from user research to inspire design concepts for the … more →

Tags: Design Process, industry project, Design Thinking, Energy, India, Intel, sustainability, User Research, xplane

Desert 'Kites' - Ancient strategic design genius

Ashwin Rajan wrote 7 months ago: I was awed by this example of strategic design from over 5000 years ago. The ‘kites’ - s … more →

Tags: musings, Prototyping, kite, Strategic Design, desert, National Geographic, sketching

Smart and Clever - from Kicker Studio

Ashwin Rajan wrote 7 months ago: A new presentation from Dan Saffer’s Kicker Studio. I always like Dan’s practical, no-no … more →

Tags: Paradigms and Frameworks, Design Process, Dan Saffer, kicker studio, GUI, Business Software

Intel Project - The Social Collective as an Agent of Behavioral Change

Ashwin Rajan wrote 8 months ago: Working with Intel design researcher Jay Mellican (of Intel’s Digital Home group) and CIID fac … more →

Tags: Data Visualization, Paradigms and Frameworks, industry project, vinay venkatraman, Social Interaction, Intel, jay mellican, Smart Grid, Energy

CIID Microsites go live!

Ashwin Rajan wrote 10 months ago: CIID Mircosites - Browse CIID projects by module or student in: - Tangible User Interface - Toy View … more →

Tags: CIID, Design Process, Interaction design, microsites, Portfolio

Frontline gloves - concepts and prototypes 2 comments

Ashwin Rajan wrote 10 months ago: I posted a short note on our recent project in Tangible User Interfaces where we decided to work on … more →

Tags: physical computing, Tangible User Interface, Design Process, featuritis, gestural interaction design, Prototyping, Sensor

Screen-based solutions for eldercare -process and concepts

Ashwin Rajan wrote 12 months ago: The Project: We worked on this project during Graphical User Interfaces class; here are some notes o … more →

Go for quantity - ideation to prototyping

Ashwin Rajan wrote 1 year ago: I have referred to this talk by Tim Brown earlier in my post on Bodystorming. Tim Brown discusses he … more →

Tags: bodystorming, Brainstorming, IDEO, prototypes, Prototyping, Tim Brown

Video Prototyping - 'Keyless' Concept

Ashwin Rajan wrote 1 year ago: Notes on a concept for a service that we worked on in Video Prototyping class, followed by the video … more →

The 1K Project

Ashwin Rajan wrote 1 year ago: One thousand video recordings of people playing Track Mania run simultaneously. That’s so … more →

Tags: 1k project, User Research, video game

Bodystorming - Living in the Problem Space

Ashwin Rajan wrote 1 year ago: Tim Brown of IDEO speaks here on the importance of the (work/play?) environment used by leading desi … more →

Tags: Bill Verplank, bodystorming, cartoon house, Prototyping, Brainstorming, Persona, problem space, Virtual Reality, Tim Brown

On Analysis and Synthesis in Design

Ashwin Rajan wrote 1 year ago: Here’s Vinay Venkatraman (interaction designer and teacher at CIID) talking about the processe … more →

Tags: Analysis, Synthesis, vinay venkatraman, Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of the Four, Chocolate

Emotional Considerations in UbiComp

Ashwin Rajan wrote 1 year ago: Mark Weiser’s seminal article has proved to be sweeping in title as well as consequence. It is … more →

Tags: Mark Weiser, the computer for the 21st century, the disappearing computer initiative, Pervasive Computing, ubiquitous computing, Ambient Intelligence, physical computing, the internet of things, Things that think

Two Models of the Design Process

Ashwin Rajan wrote 1 year ago: Bill Verplank drew for us his comprehensive yet concise model of what constitutes the process of des … more →

Tags: Bill Verplank, Interaction design, Motivation, Meaning, Metaphor, Mode, Mapping, niels-clausen stuck, User Research


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