Description
You will learn to observe, analyze, and understand the role design plays in our lives. Look around. Virtually everything you see was designed: the layout of keys on your laptop, even the font used for the letters, the shape and placement of your front door knob, the ways you control your car, how you swipe to interact with your smartphone. All were designed. But how well were they designed? Could they be designed better? And on a deeper level, how does the way things are designed shape our minds and how should what we know about our minds shape design?
We examine not only the visible features of designed objects but also the less visible features of process and interaction (e.g., how we queue to obtain service at an ATM, why we decide to grasp an object in a certain way, or sit in that specific seat in the classroom), the implicit and explicit ways design influences our interaction with the world and with each other.
General Information
The class is a design studio. You will keep a portfolio to document your projects and activities. Your grade will be determined by class participation, projects, and your portfolio.
This is a partially flipped classroom: you learn material at “home” and work on projects in class, with extensive discussions and mentoring by professors and TAs/IAs.
Be sure to get the revised and expanded version. It contains required material not in previous editions.
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Announcements
Here is the form to describe the contributions of each member of your team (including yourself). At the start of the description for each person include their full name and your estimate of the percentage of their contribution to the final project. This percentage should combine their assistance in executing the project, preparing the video and presentation, and writing the final paper. The total for all the team members should sum to 100%.
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Here is your final submission link:
Please send in one link to your final paper per group.
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Please submit any slides or video content that accompanies your presentation tomorrow through the following link. (If you do not have slides, and do not have a video, you do not need to fill this out.)
Be sure to submit before 9am tomorrow (Wednesday).
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Use this form to submit your link to your one minute video. Hard deadline is 9AM Tuesday (3/14)
By the end of the day on Wednesday (2/22) please fill out this form to describe the contributions of all members of your project team. We would like your candid assessment of the contributions of everyone in your group (including yourself). There are two questions. One about the contributions to the doing of the project and one about contributions to writing the paper.
| Name | Office Hours | |
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Professor Hollan | When? Where? | |
Adam Rule | When? Where? | |
Amber Tang | When? Where? | |
Isaac Fehr | When? Where? | |
Kaiser Pister | When? Where? | |
Xinran Wei | When? Where? | |
Alejandro | When? Where? | |
Ardavan Amini | When? Where? | |
Kishan | When? Where? | |
Se One Park | When? Where? | |
Prof. Michael W. Meyer | When? Where? |