Blogs about: Jimmyp

Featured Blog

Greening the Grocery Store2 comments

jimmypierce wrote 1 month ago: Design Observer recently featured a piece on “Greening the Grocery Store” by KT Meaney, … more »

Tags: communications, Food, purchasing, recycling

mix tapes vs. digital playlists (mediation, meaningful objects and sign values)2 comments

jimmypierce wrote 4 months ago: Last week, I conducted some user studies to learn about music libraries. One of the participants com … more »

Tags: Aesthetics, experience design, HCI, Interaction design, Leisure, Phenomenology, semiotics, Structuralism, User Centered Design

mix tapes vs. digital playlists (mediation, meaningful things and sign values)

jimmypierce wrote 4 months ago: Last week, I conducted some user studies to learn about music libraries. One of the participants com … more »

Tags: Interaction design, Aesthetics, experience design, HCI, Leisure, Phenomenology, semiotics, Structuralism, User Centered Design

Are designed experiences "real"? (and other initial thoughts on Dewey and experience design)

jimmypierce wrote 5 months ago: I502 started with the question of how can we (as interaction designers) design compelling experience … more »

Tags: Interaction design, Meta, Questions, experience_design, DEWEY, i502, experience?, Perception

fictional interaction design2 comments

jimmypierce wrote 6 months ago: …anew genre I hadn’t thought about. via http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/fictional … more »

Tags: Aesthetics, Corporate, film, Interaction design

interface space4 comments

jimmypierce wrote 7 months ago: An interesting piece on some artistic explorations of interface culture. I actually think some of … more »

Tags: Postmodernism, Interaction design

Tagging as Identity Construction2 comments

jimmypierce wrote 7 months ago: For my paper, I’ve been looking at tagging on sites like Del.icio.us and Flickr.  Lots of int … more »

Tags: Interaction design, paper, Postmodernism, poststructuralism, Prewriting, semiotics

Q: What is the difference between authorship and use?4 comments

jimmypierce wrote 7 months ago: Manivich says that “Although more complex types of interactivity can be created by a computer … more »

Tags: semiotics, Structuralism

paper topic ideas2 comments

jimmypierce wrote 8 months ago:  Manovich says “If there is a new rhetoric or aesthetic possibile here, it may have less to d … more »

Tags: Prewriting, semiotics, Structuralism

Structuralist Design Methodology2 comments

jimmypierce wrote 8 months ago: While thinking about the strengths and weaknesses of the phenomenological, hermeneutic, and structur … more »

Tags: Design Process, Ethnography, Phenomenology, Structuralism

prewriting: digital being v. physical being

jimmypierce wrote 8 months ago: We experience being-in-the-digital-world as distinct from being-in-the-physical-world. For example, … more »

Tags: Phenomenology, Interaction design, Prewriting

Lecture Liveblog: 10-18-071 comment

jimmypierce wrote 8 months ago: Butter is not concrete. This butter is concrete. Give me something concrete and “that … more »

Tags: Phenomenology

rationalism v. phenomenology v. activity theory5 comments

jimmypierce wrote 8 months ago: I started to think about how different theories constrain and open up the space for design but got c … more »

Tags: Activity theory, Phenomenology

the death of the viewer3 comments

jimmypierce wrote 9 months ago: Stephen Prince argues that “To date, theory has tended to minimize the importance of perceptua … more »

Tags: Amateur Video, film, Phenomenology

What makes a primitive a primitive?1 comment

jimmypierce wrote 9 months ago: There are two ways that undertanding and working with things becomes more challenging: it’s to … more »

Tags: Interaction design

Some reflections on Massively Amateur Culture1 comment

jimmypierce wrote 9 months ago: Jeff- I really loved your presentation… and I have a few questions. Or, rather, some themes … more »

Tags: Questions

creativity and the design of tools, and more tools, and more tools...1 comment

jimmypierce wrote 9 months ago: The readings so far in this course have generated so many questions in my mind having to do with the … more »

Tags: Interaction design, Design Process, Questions

Q: Tool v. Material ?4 comments

jimmypierce wrote 9 months ago: I meant to ask this a while ago, after Erik’s lecture… What is the difference between a … more »

Tags: Design Process, Questions

Q: What is the difference b/w needs and desires?3 comments

jimmypierce wrote 9 months ago: The dialogue following Marty’s post raises some questions about why we design, what should the … more »

Tags: Aesthetics, Questions


Have your say. Start a blog.

See our free features »

Related Tags
All »

Follow this tag via RSS

Find other items tagged with “jimmyp”:
Technorati Del.icio.us IceRocket