Crafting hand-knotted rugs primarily made from wool sourced from sheep, llama, or alpaca.
Abstracts
Emotional Engagement in Design: Traditional vs. Art-Based Approaches
Identifying differences by exploring the effects of emotional impact on an audience.
A New Framework and Database for Exploring Works of Experience Design
A project to organize and catalog resources to facilitate specific reference searches and discover experience design information.
Design + History Methodology Slam
Four Graphic Design History Methodologies for historical research— formal analysis, biography, fiction writing, and data visualization.
User-Centered Design + Generative AI Research Tools: Usability Testing and Implication
Comparing how generative AI facilitates interaction design undergraduate students’ work.
Pedagogical Workshops and Collaboration
Engaging with dialogue, risks, intuitive creativity, and happy accidents.
Accessibility and Creative Authorship in Design Theory Through Multimodal Learning and Metacognitive Reflection
A course that engaged a cohort of international first-semester masters students in complex theoretical concepts encouraging self-reflection and creative authorship.
Design + Computation + Performance + __________
An innovative software tool enabling users to create dynamic, immersive media environments.
Sensory and Ambient Interfaces
Alternative feedback strategies that invert the visual-first priority of digital feedback.
Exploring Identity Through Curatorial Practices: Gráfica Latina
The role of the graphic designer as curator addressing identity and belonging, culture, social justice, empowerment, and civic responsibility.