

J3: Roles and realities...
In the ever-evolving design process, a product emerges that at best addresses and solves a problem, or at worst leads to still better...


J2: Design Project, shift...
I have many products currently in various states of development. Originally I selected a smaller of these to feature for this class, a...


J1: You know it don't come Eamesy...
Great reading this week from Bill Moggridge about the considerations related to design. One of the great advantages to entering this...


Mind the gap...
I had included this quote on my first blog post for this summer 6190 class. It was from the Facebook page of a musician friend and it...


Do Good Work...
Power A Zen Master observing students at archery practice notices one of them who is consistently missing the mark, and says: “It is his...
The best thing...
In a blog I wrote a few years ago, for which I now realize I had prophetically chose a quote from B.F. Skinner to lead the text, I talked...


Meaning...
Concepts... conveyances... design... so much to think about... so much to consider... In an ideal situation, any one of the headings...


Components... Examples...
Hello classmates! I hope you all are enjoying our class and learning from each other as much as I am. :) Our readings from the Krause...


Musical Design...
In my last journal I mentioned visual rhetoric and Gestalt. In our readings for this week there is discussion on aspects of composition,...


Instruction, design, and the fight...
I started my life as a freelance designer in the mid-1990s, when computers were just beginning to supersede traditional commercial art...