Category Archives: thesis

Thesis Project Documentation

I’ve finally updated my portfolio site a bit, and have put up my thesis project presentation and documentation for anyone who’s interested.  You can download them here. Thanks for looking, and if anyone has feedback, or questions please don’t hesitate to post it or email me directly (paulrobare{at } gmail[dot] com)!

August 16, 2009 – 1:19 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design, Design Thinking, thesis | Comments (0)

New Portfolio

I’ve revised my web portfolio – giving it a new and improved look and adding some work (and details about old work).  I’ll probably continue to tweak it, but I’m pretty happy with what’s there now.  I actually did the entire design and development (learning Javascript and jquery in the process) in three days.  The …

February 25, 2009 – 9:12 am | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Communication Design, Design Process, thesis | Comments (1)

Another Semester Gone

Wow!  I can’t believe it’s been a month since I last posted.  That was probably the last time I had a day off, but now sweet winter break has finally arrived. It’s also a little hard to believe that I’m now three quarters of the way through grad school.  Looking back, it’s hard to describe …

December 21, 2008 – 2:24 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, thesis | Comments (0)

Thesis as Design Process

I have asked myself many times why writing my thesis is such a struggle.  If I were to be simply handed a topic and told to write a 20-30 page paper I could easily knock it out in a weekend and be happy with what I did.  With my thesis, however, I have had to …

October 19, 2008 – 1:28 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Design Process, thesis | Comments (0)

Accidentally Visual

As I’ve been working on my thesis, which looks at sound in computing (and digital products in general), I’ve also been looking at the history of the graphic user interface.  One of the things that strikes me most, is how nearly accidental the evolution was of computing into an almost entirely visual medium.  The earliest …

October 12, 2008 – 3:23 pm | By Paul | Posted in Design Thinking, thesis | Comments (0)

The new and final year of D-School

I realize that I never wrote much about my summer experience at Intuit.  In part, this was purposeful – I was (and still am) hoping to receive a job offer from them, and so felt that it would be better if I weren’t publicly blogging my thoughts on everything.  I do, however, feel that it …

September 18, 2008 – 1:08 pm | By Paul | Posted in CMU, Intuit, thesis | Comments (0)