Jamin Hegeman
About: I am an interaction design graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University, and will be graduating this May. That means I'm looking for a job!
My thesis work includes a paper on the nature of design thinking and a project that explores the use of meta information in the physical world to support identity construction. At CMU, I currently teach Basic Interaction, a foundation interaction design course for HCI students. Last fall I taught a Design Computing course.
Before graduate school, I was a reporter, editor, web producer, web developer, and soccer coach. I have my own business, Yum Yum Web. But I do not attend to it much because of grad school.
I have a BA in English Writing with a concentration in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh.
Blog Posts
mTID Gets Panties in a Twist
--I’m not sure Carnegie Mellon’s master of tangible interaction design is news to me. I sort of recall hearing something about it last sp...
Design Thinking Hiatus
--Obviously, I have not been writing much recently. There are a number of reasons for this. First, I needed a break from all the design thinking to r...
Going to Nokia
--I am happy to announce that I will be joining Nokia at their new design office in San Francisco this August. The group is headed by Raphael Grignan...
The Thinking Behind Design
--Over the course of the school year, my thesis paper went through quite a metamorphosis as I explored many text and wrestled with what I wanted to s...
eReader and Gestural Interaction Projects
--Just want to share the results of the eReader and gestural interaction project I had my Basic Interaction class (undergraduate HCI double majors) d...
I am a Master of Design
--Today I received my diploma. My overly large diploma. The day, as a whole, was a bit surreal.
Done with Grad School! (the short post)
--At 10am this morning, I turned in my signed thesis paper and thesis project, making me officially done with grad school. It’s been pretty qui...
Richard Buchanan Leaving School of Design
--Today we learned, in an apparent slip, that Richard Buchanan is leaving the School of Design. At the very end of class, in a conversation largely f...
Fourth Order Design?
--I’ve heard “fourth order design” thrown around a lot lately. The more I hear it, the more I would rather hear what the the person...
Tony Golsby-Smith of 2nd Road Visits CMU
--Last week, Tony Golsby-Smith, CEO of 2nd Road, the Sydney-based consulting company that focuses on shaping large-scale change, visited Richard Buch...
Core Competencies of Design
--Richard Buchanan presented the “Core Competencies of Design” in class this week, offering a slightly different version of the list of w...
Perspectives on Why We Design
--In continuation of our project to design the next design firm, we were attempting to articulate our personal visions for the future of what design ...
Designing Design Teams
--As our efforts to consider how current design firms might transition to new areas for design, our team talked about designing design teams as a pos...
Coast to Coast
--The impending end to my days at Carnegie Mellon and the need to find myself a job have left me with little time to develop my recent thoughts into ...
Earth Day Poster for Whole Foods
--For the Color and Communication class I’m taking this semester with Kristin Hughes and Mark Mentzer, we were asked to create a mask out of re...
Designing the Ideal Design Firm
--As an unexpected twist to the end of the semester, for my Design, Management, and Organizational Change class with Richard Buchanan, we were asked ...
Teaching Gestural Interaction
--Today marked the beginning of the third project in the Basic Interaction course I am teaching this semester. The goal of the project is to design a...
Six More Weeks of Grad School
--If you follow this blog regularly, you will have noticed that I have not been regularly updating as of late. Time has been very limited, and the br...
But why?
--For one of my classes, I was asked to put a file on the server. But when I saw the possible folder names, none made sense at a destination for my f...
Bringing Emotion into the Design Process
--I’d like to continue a comment about bringing emotion into the design process because I think it deserves its own post. Kip said: Design has ...
Bringing Emotion into the Design Process
--I’d like to continue a comment about bringing emotion into the design process because I think it deserves its own post. Kip said: Design has ...
Bringing Emotion into the Design Process
--I’d like to continue a comment about bringing emotion into the design process because I think it deserves its own post. Kip said: Design has ...
Bringing Emotion into the Design Process
--I’d like to continue a comment about bringing emotion into the design process because I think it deserves its own post. Kip said: Design has ...
Quantifying Design
--As a designer, one of my greatest questions centers around the value of design, in particular the aspects of design that make it effective, success...
My Amazon Tags Suggest Boundaries for Design
--Beneath my recommendations on Amazon.com, there exists a tag cloud of categories representing the types of books I typically buy—in this case, typi...
Searching for a New Head
--At the end of this semester, Dan Boyarski, the current head of the School of Design, is stepping down after six years. Dan has an inspired characte...
Interview Madness
--On Thursday and Friday of last week, about 50 companies attended the School of Design’s job fair. Friday was the big day, with all interviews...
Moving to SF insane?
--Saw this comment from Dave Malouf on the IxDA list: You’ve gotta be nutz, coocoo, and just insane to leave anyplace including NYC and move to...
4×4 Things About Me
--I was tagged by Dan Saffer to continue a meme (noun: an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture) of fou...
Erik Stolterman talks Design at CMU
--Erik Stolterman has been visiting Carnegie Mellon for the past few days, during which he gave a lecture on “The Design Paradox – and the natu...
Thoughts on Interaction08
--I got back from the first Interaction Design Association (IxDA) conference, Interaction08, late Monday night after an 11-hour drive in a rented min...
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Zhen Zeng (mutual) friend |
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Doug LeMoine (mutual) friend |
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Emma van Niekerk (mutual) friend |
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Imran Sobh (mutual) friend |