Syllabus: Interaction & Service Design Concepts

Principles, Perspectives, and Practices

What’s “up” with our maps?

The politics of cartography

The Seams of an Elevator

In cities today, elevators are a mainstay in buildings that rise above ground level. They are the shuttle to our destination, embedded in how we think about modern architecture. The elevator co-exists, and some might say competes, with another infrastructural element, the stair. Most…

Infrastructures Underlying Mobile Payment Systems

Work-in-progress post examining mobile payment systems through Vertesi’s notion of seams.

Background

I’ve been wanting to talk for awhile about a really interesting phenomenon to me and…

Is the medium really the message?

Two sides of a coin : technology vs society

Deep Learning Cameras, Faces, and the Internet of Things

With the resurrection of researches conducted in AI, there is a proliferation in the field of machine learning, and especially Deep Learning. Its idea is to autonomously learn things from putting together raw data.1 This technology…

Re-defining Interaction Design and How it’s Changing My Life (and yours, too!)

Reflections on first semester of grad school, being a Designer, and FOMO.

5 Lessons I’ve Learned About Design and Interaction Design

Semester Reflections for CMU IxD Seminar, Fall 2015

Over the semester, through seminar, studio, and lab, we have done, tried out, and learned about a lot of things. Amongst many things I’ve learned is…

Crosswalk Signals As Message

I’ve been thinking about Pittsburgh crosswalk signals for various other class projects. How do these banal…