Design Verses Usability
- Post By: Jamie
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- Category: Spring 2016, UX Design
A few quick thoughts on UX design mid our eCommerce project. I realized that designing from the perspective of the user experience was great until suddenly we needed one more button than I found visually pleasing. Design and usability are […]
Read MoreSearching Til There’s Nothing Left
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- Category: Nothing: Creating Illusions, Spring 2016
SEARCHING TIL THERE’S NOTHING LEFT (Response to excerpts from Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees) Robert Irwin is truly the perfect reading for a class on nothing. He searched and searched until he discovered art is not […]
Read MoreSubway Mate
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- Category: Spring 2016, UX Design
SUBWAY MATE PROBLEM: My partner, Sicong, lives in New Jersey. She commutes into New York often, but not often enough to buy unlimited metrocards. Sicong has trouble remembering if she has money left on her card and often ends up […]
Read MoreA Choice
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- Category: Narrative Game Studio, Spring 2016
A CHOICE This semester early on I made a choice to take Narrative Game Studio with Clara Fernandez-Vara over Directing VR class. Although I am very interested in Virtual Reality, the class focused on 360 video and filmmaking and did […]
Read MoreLost Bear
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- Category: Sensory Driven Storytelling, Spring 2016
LOST BEAR For our first homework assignment, we needed to find an object that tells a story. My choice was a lost teddy bear. WHY IS IT COMPELLING? The reason I picked a lost bear is there’s inherently […]
Read More“Your website should be a mensch” – Steve Krug
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- Category: Spring 2016, UX Design
“YOUR WEBSITE SHOULD BE A MENSCH” – STEVE KRUG Steve Krug delivered exactly what he claimed he would in Don’t Make Me Think. He warned that so much of what he said would seem obvious after we read it. […]
Read MoreF for Fake
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- Category: Nothing: Creating Illusions, Spring 2016, Uncategorized
F FOR FAKE My first thoughts on the film were how self-reflexive it is. I loved watching the footage through the Moviola and the numerous times you see Welles step out of frame to reveal the lights and the crew. […]
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Fabrication for Dummies
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- Category: Fall 2015, Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing
My alien already could carry on a conversation, but I still had to make a little speaker system to go along with him. Even though the coding was the hardest part by far on this project, my lack of fabrication […]
Read MoreHe’s alive… HE’S ALIVE!!!
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- Category: Fall 2015, Introduction to Computational Media, Introduction to Physical Computing
He finally works!!! Here’s a little video of a conversation with my alien. Extraterrestrial Artificial Intelligence Early Testing from Jamie Ruddy on Vimeo. This is what it took to get him there: This week so far has been completely insane. […]
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