I am not a graphic artist; I don’t draw icons. To understand what I do, one of my favorite breakdowns of usable software design is Jesse James Garrett’s The Elements of User Experience (view the original diagram). I have taken his diagram and placed next to it a small selection of some of the methodologies […]
Julian and Alice GraduatingOriginally uploaded by jmissig.
Four years, two majors, and a lot of work. Now it’s over. It still doesn’t feel real. I managed to graduate from Carnegie Mellon University, being conferred a degree of Bachelor of Science with University Honors in the field of Cognitive Science with an additional major in Human-Computer Interaction.
Alice […]
I had my last undergraduate class this morning and did not even realize it until now. I have quite a bit of work left to do, but I’m almost done with my undergraduate degree. Pretty crazy.
Of course, the Masters program runs straight through the summer (”No breaks!”, even for my undergrad graduation), and then I […]
CHI2006, the conference on human factors in computing systems, has released a final schedule [pdf]. I will be attending the event and I wanted to give you, my loyal (and not so loyal) readers, a chance to let me know if there’s anything at the conference you think I should attend.
The schedule link is a […]
I’ve put together a standalone personal project site to make things easier for people who only care to find out about those sorts of things. Feel free to suggest ways I could make it better.
Why do you care? It will be a compendium of information on Gabber and my Cocoa Pie Menu. I swear that […]
This semester is my last as an undergraduate student. In theory it was supposed to be a light semester, but for some reason I just can’t find the time to get all the work done that I need to do. Hopefully it’s just a matter of not having figured out my schedule (as in when […]
I did in fact finish my Cocoa Pie Menu implementation in time to be presented, written about, and submitted for class. Behold:
I of course have a quick little test application making use of the class. I will post that later. For now if you’re curious you can read the paper [pdf] I wrote for class. […]