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Published in LX Design — Sustainability Team

·Mar 29

XII. Block Busting

Willetta Wisely, Catherine Wang, Catherine Yochum, Gabriel Winter Clark Block busting Activities During the in-class block busting exercises, the most memorable exercise was designing experiences/objects that lacked the assumed necessary components. For example, one of the teams deemed heat important for a toaster, and then later on they had to design a toaster…

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XII. Block Busting
XII. Block Busting

Published in LX Design — Sustainability Team

·Mar 15

VIII. Knowledge and Skill Acquisition

Team Sustainability: Catherine Yochum, Catherine Wang, Winter Clark, Willetta Wisely — After conducting many different knowledge and skill acquisition activities based off of our readings, our team has a firmer grasp of what knowledge and skill goals our users can achieve with our learning experience. Wiggins + McTighe’s Six Facets of Understanding Our group’s first round of doing the six facets was with random examples, and that was…

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VIII. Knowledge and Skill Acquisition
VIII. Knowledge and Skill Acquisition

Published in LX Design — Sustainability Team

·Feb 15

IV. How we used McCarthy’s 4MAT System

IV. How we used McCarthy’s 4MAT System Wiletta Wisely, Catherine Wang, Catherine Yochum, Winter Clark During Wednesday’s class, our team used the 4MAT exercise to organize our ideas through different motivations: is the idea teaching the what, why, how or how to take it further (a.k.a. apply)? The activity itself is a good reminder that our designed…

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IV. How we used McCarthy’s 4MAT System
IV. How we used McCarthy’s 4MAT System

Dec 3, 2021

Final Reflection for Futures II

Fall 2021|Catherine Wang

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Final Reflection for Futures II
Final Reflection for Futures II

Apr 10, 2021

Alex Steinweiss Video

4/6/2021–5/13/2021 Project Brief: Make a 1–2 minute long animation telling a story about your design hero. Collecting Speaking Audio There was obviously very, very few audio clips that were good quality and had people who knew Alex well enough to talk about him extensively Steven Heller talking about Steinweiss: Alex Steinweiss: Father of Record Cover…

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Alex Steinweiss Video
Alex Steinweiss Video

Mar 16, 2021

Alex Steinweiss Booklet

3/9/2021 — 3/30/2021 Initial brainstorming I had certain themes that I wanted to include in my booklet while I was working on my poster: a spread to showcase different ways Alex portrayed the piano a spread showing the different printing layers that overlap to make one album cover + complement that with…

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Alex Steinweiss Booklet
Alex Steinweiss Booklet

Published in Research Methods 51–208

·Feb 11, 2021

Our Main Question and Related Research Methods

2/10/2021 We are currently picking between two areas of interest: 1. How would future pandemics affect the elderly population? 2. How do people experience entertainment differently due to COVID? (such as books, movies, etc.) — Regarding question 1, we think that mind mapping and empathy mapping are two good research methods for investigation. Because of how broad our question is, mind mapping is a good method for idea generation and thought organization. It can…

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Feb 10, 2021

Poster for Alex Steinweiss

2/4/2021— 3/4/2021 Choose a designer who’s work you want to learn from in your own practice. Make a 19.75" x 31.25" poster showcasing your design hero to an audience who is unfamiliar with them. ___ It took a while to choose my hero. qualities I was looking for: delicate designs and use of color prolific reasons for designing…

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Design Hero Project
Design Hero Project

Published in Research Methods 51–208

·Feb 9, 2021

Speed Dating Matches!

Reminder of what my research method is about: Parallel Prototyping is when a team of designers distill wide explorations and their unique perspectives into a singular, superior design. …

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Speed Dating Matches!
Speed Dating Matches!

Published in Research Methods 51–208

·Feb 7, 2021

Parallel Prototyping (Speed Dating)

Parallel Prototyping is a step of the research process that happens before the iterative/refinement stages. Designers should fully explore the options available to them to make confident decisions and to not be fixated on a design too quickly. After multiple designers explore on their own, their progress is evaluated by…

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Parallel Prototyping (Speed Dating)
Parallel Prototyping (Speed Dating)
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