They/them. PhD student: smart textiles, weaving, computational craft, hardware hacking.
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”.
03 Sep 2019Reading response for Assignment 1: The Deep Dive, a video about IDEO, an influential design firm. Video link.
03 Sep 2019Design 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.
03 Sep 2019Hello! 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.