Shanel Wu
They/them. PhD student: smart textiles, weaving, computational craft, hardware hacking.
Blog
27 Oct 2019Knitting Intarsia in the Round
Smart Circle: Testing and Unravelling a Woven Smart Textile
Raspberry Pi, PyQT, and GUI design
Reading Assignment 2 - Users and Tasks
While many of these concepts about who users are and what tasks are involved in a system are fairly intuitive, I found these readings useful for terms that rigorously labelled the concepts. If anything, I’ll just sound a lot more technically competent if I write “task decomposition” rather than “to-do list”.
Assignment 1 - The Deep Dive
Reading response for Assignment 1: The Deep Dive, a video about IDEO, an influential design firm. Video link.
Designing Solutions to the Apple TV Remote
Design charrette - inspired by Don Norman’s work, a short, collaborative meeting to quickly collaborate on or sketch ideas in order to share a broad diversity of design ideas. Our task: redesign the Apple TV Remote.
Introduction to CSCI5839
Hello! My name’s Shanel and my pronouns are they/them/theirs. This is the first blog post I’m making on this site for CSCI5839, a course on User Centered Design that I am taking in the Fall 2019 semester.