Starting My Thesis Journey on 9/11

I enter the final thesis year of my MFA in Interaction Design with some recent clarity on what I…

Post-Looks-Like-Feels-Like

Following my “looks like feels like” presentation yesterday, which is the penultimate presentation of our thesis…

Follow the Leader

As I roughly traced the history of democracy throughout civilization, it struck me how little true progression there has been. Biases against the lower rungs of society, using economic and class status, lack of education, gender and, of course, race have been consistently debilitating throughout…

Dumplings for Democracy (10 short observations and talking to folks)

Stakes Is High

This past Thursday, September 13, 2018 was the New York State primary elections. Although all three of the Progressive nominees I…

The POLLY User Experience: 5 E’s

In exploring the ‘5 E’s’ I am able to get a better grasp of the user’s journey before, during and after using the POLLY app.

Chipping Away

It’s been a while since my last blog re: my thesis. I have tried to pivot away from…

Highly Advisable

I have the good fortune of having a very smart thesis advisor in the form of my good friend Richard from R/GA. We sat down last…

Research Plan

My research plan thus far has been done primarily via desk research. There are numerous articles concerning my thesis topic. There are also many websites and apps, some of them using similar approaches to how I would tackle the problems I have gained insight on. The rut I currently feel is one which…

POLLY: User Testing Report

In the past two days I conducted user tests with the target group of seven high schoolers as well as two…