’12 Rules of Animation’ movie

This was one of the videos that Antonio De Pasquale (an interaction designer at Frog) gave at his IxDA talk, “Design in Motion.” It was an incredible talk about repurposing some of Disney’s animation rules into interaction design experiences to create a more enjoyable experience. His talk over all was really excellent as he also went through…

What I’m reading over winter break…

So. Excited. Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks (non-fiction, neuroscience) What the Dog Saw by Malcolm Gladwell (non-fiction, social science) How to Do Things with Language by JL Austin (non-fiction, language philosophy) Things That Make Us Smart: Defending human attributes in the age of machines by Donald Norman (non-fiction, design) Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (fiction, Russian classic) Kafka on the Shore by Haruki…

5: Final projects

I am frozen from the cold breeze of ‘overwhelmed’ s as I approach my last week of my first semester at Carnegie Mellon.   One product-service innovation/design philosophy paper. Two interactive heteronym visualizations. (Using Adobe Edge) One interactive data visualization using processing. One video sketch of said visualization being implemented in a real life circumstance. One argument…

Kakapo Love

Kakapo Love: The Mating Ritual of a Nocturnal Parrot from Jacklynn on Vimeo.   Also know as: Why I haven’t been sleeping for the past two weeks. Sorry for the radio silence, guys, but I have been pouring my soul into this last project and with the tremendous help of James Wagner, here it is!…