Last week I entered the aSister project into the Google 10^100 project. I really enjoyed working on this project and saw how it could make a difference in the lives of some people.
I created a website to add more information about the project [www.asister.org]. I have posted the video [...]
Today I accepted a position with Manhattan Associated in Atlanta, GA for a User Interface Designer position. It should be an interesting job in that I'll be part of a new department that currently has two people the supervisor and one other person. We are working on revising the whole [...]
I turned in my capstone paper on Friday. I haven't had a chance to put a write up on it in my portfolio yet but I have uploaded the paper.
I really enjoyed working on this project and hope that some of the ideas and recommendations that came out of [...]
What a month it has been. Between graduation, my job search and working on my capstone presentation I haven't had much time to blog.
I presented my capstone on Friday and it was very well received by faculty and the international students. It looks like someone might be carrying on [...]
After I got back from CHI and a small vacation I walked right into the end of the semester and graduation so finding time to post has been difficult until now.
I thought the student design competition poster session went well but unfortunately our team did not make it to the [...]
I am excited to be leaving for CHI on Thursday but I have a lot of preparation to do before then. My team is pretty much ready to go. We have our poster printed and we are working on some additional items. We are also submitting our project to the [...]
It was really interesting to find out that one of the possible job titles I could have is one Fast Company considers to be a job that people don't realize they want.
I especially liked this part of the article. "Although many interaction designers have advanced degrees in design, such a [...]
The abstract for a paper I am working on with Professor Erik Stolterman, classmates David Royer and Selvan Thandapani was accepted to the Design Research Society 2008 conference. The paper is titled Designerly Tools and Theoretical Approaches. In this paper we are looking at the tools that designers use for [...]
One of my friends is looking into the way people use personas in design. We had a open discussion the other night about our capstones and she asked each of us to talk about how we use personas in design.
After a bit of thinking I have found that I have [...]
Since we have wrapped up the intense part of Bloomington Startup Weekend I wanted to do a little wrap up myself. I didn't get much time to blog since I spent most of it running around trying to keep things moving.
I started out with user experience but since we were [...]
Right now the challenge for some people is finding something to do. Some of the groups are so large that it is impossible to keep everyone on the same task. I have moved over to sort of a HR/UX role since I had left to do user research and fell [...]
Last night the user experience team decided to concentrate on the small promoter. We came up with a scenario of Dave wanting to promote his band Captain Underpants and the Seafish. We are trying to make this different from other similar applications since we are concentrating on the promoter and [...]
Our concept is event a central events database that will feed other sites and the primary place for finding events in Bloomington. The user experience team has retreated to the Informatics building to discuss the design of the pages and figure out details. We are somewhat unsure of the exact [...]
This weekend I am trying out the Bloomington startup weekend. We are going to try and develop a company in one weekend. I am signed up as part of the user experience team and I might drift over to design a bit depending on what we end up doing. It [...]
Indiana University is really putting together a strong showing at CHI in Florence. Tonight we learned of the acceptances of papers by the following IU authors.
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Shaowen Bardzell and Jeff Bardzell
Tyler Pace
Research Landscapes
Shaowen Bardzell, Tyler Pace and Jeff Bardzell
Work in Progress
Richie Hazelwood, Kevin Makice, Kay Connelly and [...]
My team is one of the 12 semifinalists in the CHI student design competition. We are one of 4 make that 5 teams from Indiana University.
I am excited to present in Italy in April along with my aSister teammates Kshitij Gupta, Adwait Joshi and Nigel Vaz.
I also congratulate our [...]
When I left the journalism industry two years ago not many people were thinking about the usability of their websites. Within the past few weeks I have seen a few things that make me believe that maybe they are starting to come around.
With the spike in online newspaper [...]
Today I launched a capstone blog to keep track of where my research is currently. I'll be importing a few posts regarding capstone into that blog.
I have also posted my research competition paper there.
I will still post major capstone updates here but all updates will be found on the [...]
Tonight I posted aSister the CHI 2008 student design competition submission that my team submitted today. This year's topic deals with homelessness.
Earlier this week I posted a final project from the end of last semester, Experience the Buskirk Chumley Theatre. It took me a little while to gather all [...]
My team is working our CHI student design competition submission. Once it has been submitted I will post the paper and summary in the portfolio section. I think we have an interesting take on the competition and hope we will be selected.
I am in an analysis/planning of my next steps [...]
Many of you have probably noticed a slight site revision. For blog readers it is a pretty major change for those of you looking at my portfolio site it is a header change and some content tweaks.
I decided to put my blog as my homepage since it was easier [...]
This is the second example of bad usability that I have seen with a PayPal integration. I am trying to decide if this is the way PayPal wants things or something else.
From Woot.com:
Once again the PayPal button is closer to the credit card entry area than [...]
I am a huge fan of Southwest airlines they get you where you need to go for a reasonable price. A few weeks ago I tried to book my flight home and kept getting this error message "The purchaser's first name was not entered. Please return to the previous page [...]
Tonight I had an interesting discussion with a group of first year HCI students regarding the CHI 2008 design competition. We are all working on it as part of different classes but face similar problems.
The part of the discussion I found the most interesting was how people design and where [...]
Probably the most interesting piece of research I have found for my capstone so far is a dissertation from 1959 about International student adjustment. Interestingly I am working on pretty much the same topic.
Did you know that Indiana was one of the top schools for International students in the United [...]
Much of this year will probably be spent thinking about jobs and trying to find a job.
With my internship I thought what I wanted to do would become much clearer but it didn't. Unfortunately this is because I didn't get to do what I wanted to do on my [...]
The semester started on August 27th with a whirlwind of activity. This semester I am working as an associate instructor for Introduction to Informatics which requires me to be in lecture on Monday's and Wednesdays, hold office hours twice a week for an hour, teach two labs and help teach [...]
I had a lot of fun this summer and was quite busy therefore very limited blog posts.
Here are some photos I posted on facebook. You should be able to access them even without a facebook account. [indiana.facebook.com]
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After Yosemite Steve and I visited Sonoma where we spent [...]
This morning somewhere around 4 am I was sleeping soundly in my bed in San Francisco. All of the sudden the bed started to shake then I heard the shutters on my window flapping and the door squeeking. At first I didn't know what was going on then when I [...]
Yeah I have been a bit busy so I haven't posted in a while.
What have I been up to you wonder well I have been spending most of my weekend exploring different areas of California.
To catch up from my last post I moved into the Marina area of [...]
PayPal is an interesting place to work, much different from the New York Times Co. The dress code is jeans and a nice shirt/sweater etc. I think they call it office casual.
The buildings on both the eBay and PayPal campuses have themes. I am in the music building so the [...]
It has been a busy last few weeks hence no posting. Last weekend I looked at a few places and ended up finding one in the Marina neighborhood of San Fransisco. I am living in a 3 bedroom 2 bath condo with one other lady. It is pretty nice since [...]
The first few days in San Jose have been pretty good. Sunday I went to San Fransisco using public transportation. It took me about 2 hours. I started out at my apartment getting on a bus, then a light rail train, then the CalTrain. I was supposed to get on [...]
