I met with Hans-Christoph Steiner last Tuesday to explore software solutions that might power the StoryWalks mobile app. Hans is teaching this semester’s Programmatic Audio course and has expertise in Pure Data (PD), a programming environment for audio and video processing. Pure Data is a … Read More →
Category Archives: User Experience Design
StoryWalks at Eldridge Street ~ User Testing
This semester, in collaboration with Anna Pinkas and Amy Stein Milford, Deputy Director of the Museum at Eldridge Street, I’ve been designing a site-specific audio experience and interactive mobile application that will infuse the Eldridge Street Synagogue with the voices of past congregants, revealing its … Read More →
Discover Great Buildings ~ Wireframes
My wireframes for the proposed new Great Buildings homepage and content page are inspired by the Bing search landing page and Flickr’s photo pages. On the homepage, I imagine users arriving to find a refreshed image of a building pulled from the Great Buildings collection. … Read More →
Discover Great Buildings ~ Redesigning www.greatbuildings.com
How do you transform a 1990s-era website into a photo-rich, community-supported, content-rich discovery portal? Break it down to its component parts and rebuild to showcase crowdsourced images accessible through simple, persistent navigation. This week: Site analysis, concept sketch, and flow diagram. Next week: Wireframes.
Disruptive Thinking ~ Recollecting the Muse: The Literary Reading, Redesigned (A Manifesto)
In spite of innovation in performance, publishing and technology, literary readings are presented much the same as they were when, in 1922, James Joyce read from his freshly-printed copy of Ulysses at a podium in Paris’s packed Shakespeare & Co. bookstore. The reading is a … Read More →
Key to Kindle: A Short History of E Ink
This according to a report PricewaterhouseCoopers released in 2000, the same year Stephen King published Riding the Bullet, a 66-page digital novella which sold 400,000 copies in the first 24 hours. The potential for ebooks’ to compete against traditional books for consumer dollars seemed great, … Read More →
Core Experience & UX Design: Remind my future self…
The busy semester’s concurrent deadlines make it difficult for me to remember to do the little things that keep life at home running smoothly. Whether it’s picking up shampoo from the pharmacy or buying milk on the way home, when life gets busy these activities … Read More →
Online Giving and User Experience Design
Presentation View more presentations from CarlinMWragg Imagine. You are an employee at a newly (and wildly successful NYC startup). You recently presented a demo of your product at the New York Tech Meetup. To celebrate, last night, you and your date had dinner at momofuku … Read More →
The Fun Theory ~ Young people save for retirement, buy stuff AND accrue nestegg
I started saving for retirement two years after starting my first post-college job, but the weekly deductions felt abstract. Incentives like “tax savings” and “capitalized interest” and “future security” weren’t as powerful as the urge to splurge on dinner at WD-50, or add a new … Read More →
StoryWalks at Eldridge Street ~ Research & Revised Prototype
After sharing our first prototype with classmates at ITP and the Museum at Eldridge Street leadership team, we tweaked our design to incorporate some of their suggestions. In general, we worked to make a clearer connection between the congregant’s voices and the visual landmarks on … Read More →