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Designing a key takeaway

Designing a key takeaway

After a user finishes their audio experience and exits the sound booth, I want to extend the interaction by providing a take away that…
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People Testing a Soundbooth and Audio Scenarios

People Testing a Soundbooth and Audio Scenarios

This is the very minimalist soundbooth I have constructed to provide an isolated environment separate from our subjective reality to allow…
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Voice-over Recording Session

Voice-over Recording Session

I had scheduled to put on a live performance to test the effectiveness of the scenarios, but it had become increasingly difficult to…
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Prototype Feedback

Prototype Feedback

I presented version one of my live performance prototype to my classmates and instructors the best way that I could without actually having…
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2nd Iteration Value Proposition

2nd Iteration Value Proposition

For men to build empathy towards women, “Do You Even Know?” is a live performance that uncovers implicit gender bias, teaches through…
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Experience Map

Experience Map

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“Competitor Matrix” but not really.

“Competitor Matrix” but not really.

We were asked to audit our competitors for our thesis projects. Although I don’t necessarily have competitors because I am not looking to…
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1st Actor’s Meeting

1st Actor’s Meeting

I finally met with my group of actors who want to participate in my thesis. I wanted to make a good impression on them so I bought fresh…
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Women + Men as Allies Panel Discussion

Women + Men as Allies Panel Discussion

On Feb. 6th at the Symphony Space Theatre located in Manhattan’s Upper West Side, I listened to a fantastic panel discuss many diverse…
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Second Thesis Value Proposition

Second Thesis Value Proposition

FOR men WHO need to develop more empathy and understanding for the issues and challenges women experience, “Grab’em by the Patriarchy” is…
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Prototype Roadmap + Plan

Prototype Roadmap + Plan

Roadmap
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Interactive Calendar Prototype

Interactive Calendar Prototype

For my next prototype, I have been thinking of a novel way to give a set of practical tools and guidelines that can be integrated into…
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First Thesis Concept/Value Proposition

First Thesis Concept/Value Proposition

This is definitely a work in progress. It needs to be condensed and the title needs to be more creative.
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Product Lifecycle

Product Lifecycle

An organization (education, corporate, etc) that wants to provide training on understanding how implicit gender bias affects the…
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Ideas + Criteria Matrix

Ideas + Criteria Matrix

Creating this matrix has helped solidify why I want to use live performance as a tool to help men develop more empathy for women. It hits…
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Decision Making Criteria

Decision Making Criteria

User Needs I think they need
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Reflection on progress so far

Reflection on progress so far

I’m trying to design an experience for men to help solve a problem they may not be aware they have, and that makes it a very precarious…
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Finding a Real Advisor

Finding a Real Advisor

The problem space I am trying to solve for has led me down an interesting design path. By not using technology as the primary means, but…
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Shane Strassberg
Prototyping Live Performance Scenarios

Prototyping Live Performance Scenarios

The power of live performance can make a viewer experience real feelings that parallel those being performed by the actor. It can alter…
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Digital Research Prototype Fail

Digital Research Prototype Fail

After designing, testing and iterating on a research prototype to test an assumption of unconscious implicit bias against women as a…
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Early Research Prototype

Early Research Prototype

The first step to help men become more empathetic towards women is to make them aware of their gender bias. I did some research to find…
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Assumption Mapping

Assumption Mapping

Last week we did an in-class exercise to try and map out all the assumptions we could think of for our problem space. I could probably use…
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Making a Big Pivot

Making a Big Pivot

I am changing my thesis topic. Not because I have lost interest in my original one or that I don’t believe it doesn’t have any merit. The…
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“What do you hope to get out of your thesis?”

“What do you hope to get out of your thesis?”

Seems like an easy question to answer, but the more work I put into it, the less clear it becomes. I hope to design a compelling narrative…
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In-class Exercise

In-class Exercise

We worked through an exercise designed to help us brainstorm new and interesting directions thesis could take with the help from two…
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