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What Role Might Machine Learning Ethically Play in Retail Spaces?
Last spring, grad students in the Master's in Graphic Design Program at North Carolina State University partnered with an auto parts company to explore this question. The company was particularly concerned with… -
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How Can We Support Data Literacy in Middle Schoolers?
As decisions become increasingly data-driven, the ability to interrogate data is emerging as a key skill for self-advocacy. Unfortunately, marginalized communities most heavy impacted by algorithmic decision making are often those least… -
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Whose Data Is It Anyway? Ever Had Trouble Accessing Your Own Medical Data?
How can the design of an intelligent interface empower patients to access secure personal data repositories, thus giving patients agency over their own medical data? Over the course of the semester our…
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Accessibility + IBM Watson?
What's machine learning and what can designers do with it? The NCSU 1st year Masters of Graphic Design Studio took on just this question over the course of the semester. We began… -
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What Do Design Educators Need? The AIGA DEC has Data.
The AIGA Design Educators Community (DEC) set aside time during the fall to collect data around the needs of design educators and better articulate the value proposition of the DEC. I co-chaired… -
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What Does It Mean to Put the User at the Center of Your Process?
Last week I lead a UX design workshop with the University of Georgia's Graphic Design Program. We explored what it means to apply UX methods to understand user needs and then scope… -
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Before there was Illustrator
How can we use computation to augment our mental abilities? This was Vannevar Bush’s query in 1945 when he wrote “As We May Think.” Two of his ideas: the Memex: (also here) a… -
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A Bag of Beacons: Enabling Personal Mobility
This fall, the NC State graphic design junior studio spent two weeks collaborating with the SAS accessibility team. The goal: remove barriers to independent personal mobility for people with visual impairments or… -
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The Unboxing: A Project with Sealed Air
In my Special Topics Studio this semester, NC State graphic design seniors worked with Sealed Air to reimagine the secondary packaging unboxing experience. As part of their user-centered research process, the students… -
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Making Astronomy Accessible
This week, Alexandra Grossi (NCSU MGD '17) and I travelled to Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. There we met with a team of researchers and educators committed to making the study of astronomy…
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