Teaching about Marginalized Voters through Games: Avian City

Introduction

Stanford CS 247I: Design for Understanding — A Reflection

Stanford CS 247I: Design for Understanding —…

Understanding “Design for Understanding”

A reflection on CS247I: Design for Understanding at Stanford…

The Soccer Field of Design

I played soccer from 1st grade till 10th grade, and my time playing was filled with a rollercoaster of emotions. I went from being one of the best players my first year of playing, to a period of struggle, back to success, and back to struggle. My final years of soccer culminated…

CS 247I Class Final Reflection

Designing for Understanding Complexity

Design for Understanding : Reflection

Introduction

In taking Design for Understanding, my goal was to learn techniques I could use to break down complex topics into sticky, digestible bits of information. I’ve seen so often how the “curse of knowledge” in any field hinders…

CS247I Class Reflection

Intro

I thoroughly enjoyed this class and I felt like I learned a lot. The class effectively taught that there are multiple mediums in which a concept can be presented and taught for the purposes of understanding. From the explorable explainer to the website to…

Design For Understanding — Class Reflection

“What is your definition of ‘Design,’ Monsieur Eames?”

As I stared at those words on a wall in the Oakland Museum of California, it was hard to pull my focus away from the room of TV screens behind me. On the screens, the…

Reflecting on CS 247I: Design for Understanding

This class has been a interesting and unique learning experience for me. Coming in, I had little expectation of what this would be like since it was my first quarter here at Stanford. I had taken a class similar to CS 147 at Cornell though, where…

CS247 Final Class Reflections

Intro

I would like to start out this reflection by going into the main learnings that I feel stuck with me from this class as well as some random thoughts on things that I really liked. Then from there, I’ll talk a little bit about things that I…