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24 hours until orals.

In the past week, I’ve decided to present my thesis as an application for Apple’s new iPad. Orals are just a few days away, but this video already has me thinking about ways to fine tune some of the screen interactions I’ve designed. (Thanks to Linc for sharing this video with me.)

These are some projects that I’ve seen over the past year/months that might help as I start trying to envision a system that has a more spatial personality.

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I made these behavior studies as a step in the process toward the work I plan to show at orals and presented them at my last committee meeting (2/16/2010).The premise is a system alongside an existing writing space, with a cluster of widgets for conversation and research and another cluster for mapping and transitioning into writing.

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Polyvore is a website where users can go to mix and match fashion-based mood boards. Polyvore is similar to one of my mini studies from study 1, the clipping bin storyboard. I think mood boards are a good way to generate the feeling of something—this same type of concept would be interesting to use in argument construction.

For mini study 3, my sketches are more detailed than the past two studies and I’m starting to get into content a tiny bit. Now, as Kermit says, it’s time to dip my toe into the water… time to start fitting some of these studies together and pulling in more info to create a system. Stay tuned.

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I just came across this piece via Design Observer. I don’t totally agree with everything she says, but what interests me is the core of her argument: being able to express oneself clearly through the written word holds a lot of importance. With an increasingly social media-soaked landscape, people don’t write (in a formal sense) as much as they used to, and this is a big reason I became interested in my thesis topic. The problem is, not everyone learns to be a decent writer in the same way—this is where learning styles come in and I think design has a role to play in training visual learners to write.

For my mini study 2, I continued exploring through sketching. I’ve posted the full sketches after the jump.

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