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Saturday, June 7, 2003
UX in CSAt the Designing for User Experiences conference, according to Todd Warfel on the SIGIA list, "during the opening discussion, Mitch [Kapor] brought up the need for a User Experience program by design and not by CS. From his perspective, if a university tries to do a UX program from within CS, then it will suffer the anti-body syndrome. Much like how an anti-body attacks and kills a disease, CS will react to UX, treating it like a disease and killing it off, or assimilating it." I wonder what my classmates in CMU's HCI program (which is housed in CMU's Computer Science department) feel about that.
posted at 11:46 AM in
hci program
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Wednesday, June 4, 2003
SoftwareWe've been informed that we should be familiar with the following programs prior to starting school in the fall: - Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Flash
- Director
- InDesign
- Dreamweaver/HTML Authoring
Well, 2 out of 6 isn't bad, since I know Photoshop and Dreamweaver. (What, no Visio?!?) During summer session in the afternoons, we're supposed to have "software bootcamp," but from all reports, not much is learned during the 90 degree Pittsburgh summer afternoons. I'm going to have to step through the tutorials myself, especially Flash. I ordered with my new laptop Macromedia Studio MX (they are having a great sale right now). I guess I'll try to learn those myself over the summer. But I don't want to cough up the massive cash for the Adobe titles. I'd spend like $2000+ in software.
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money, software
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Tuesday, June 3, 2003
JittersI had a "First Day of School" nightmare last night, where I was supposed to have written a poem for my first class, but lost it. Gee, think I'm a little anxious about starting?
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preparation
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