Monthly Archives: October 2007

iMix

My team presented our iPhone application design in Shelly Evanson’s Basic Interaction course on Tuesday. I think that we were a spectacular success, and hopefully impressed Freddy Azures (one of the iPhone’s original designers), who attended by video-chat from California. Our application, iMix, is a simple song-mixing toy for the iPhone. It is, however, designed …

October 17, 2007 – 8:24 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Process, Flash | Comments (0)

Podcasting Starts Now

I recently began DJing with Ableton Live, the music sequencing software I like, and realized that it is perfect for putting together beautiful DJ mixes. So, I’ve decided to start podcasting a DJ mix. I hope to do this weekly, but we’ll see how much time I have. For now I’m only promising ‘semi-weekly’ (whatever …

October 10, 2007 – 8:33 pm | By Paul | Posted in Music | Comments (1)

Reading like a Grad

I remember how on the first day of our seminar with Dick Buchanan, Dick told us that he hated teaching grad students because they think they know something and they really don’t.  He also told us that he was going to teach us a new way to read.  That as undergrads we learned to talk …

October 8, 2007 – 10:37 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Thinking | Comments (0)

Explosion

The following is just plain funny.  It came inserted with a pair of headphones: But lets look at it from a design perspective, shall we?  Clearly we don’t want our headphones exploding and so will do everything possible to avoid it.  We know from the diagram that the we should use a AAA battery – …

October 6, 2007 – 10:16 am | By Paul | Posted in Design Thinking, Humor | Comments (0)

Lonely Streets

Got some neat shots of Pittsburgh’s Lonely Streets last night on the way home, and thought I’d share:

October 2, 2007 – 9:07 am | By Paul | Posted in Photography, Pittsburgh | Comments (0)