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Continuing from before:

ETC PresentsOriginally uploaded by jmissig.

I’ve posted photos from the show for a class Alice took this semester called Building Virtual Worlds. Now, normally when I see the worlds the students built I’m kind of interested, and sometimes I think they’re cool, but it was very different (so much better) being there for this whole production. […]

I’ll comment on it more later when I have more done. But for now, I’ll give you a quick screenshot:

Hooray for open-ended projects. :)

More than a year later, I now have a wonderful addition to my rant about Carnegie Mellon Housing Services. I’d like to note for historical purposes that I did in fact talk to the “Dean of Student Life” about the incidents I described in that article. Of course, at the time, the “Dean of Student […]

There’s been a lot circulating lately about how the media treats science. I found this article particularly interesting:
OK, here’s something weird. Every week in Bad Science we either victimise some barking pseudoscientific quack, or a big science story in a national newspaper. Now, tell me, why are these two groups even being mentioned in the […]

One of my former design teachers (he was a grad student, taught the Visual Interface Design course I took) has finally put into words the reasons that personas are often bad ideas.
As he says, personas can work wonders when done well, but if you aren’t going to bother to do any sort of user research […]

Despite lack of interest in the other paper I posted, I’ve gone ahead and posted two more of my school papers. Hopefully someone out there finds them interesting. I certainly spent a lot of time on them!