Yes indeed, I’ve pasted my thesis defense ladies and gentlemen! It was quite a short one though, 2 * 10 minutes to present and defend a whole year’s research, is awfully short in my opinion. But ask me if I care right now, I’ve passed, and that’s what counts. More important, with my master degree [...]
Master = done!
Sep 10
Next Friday, so 4 days from now, I’ll be defending my dissertation. So this means the last couple of days have been, and will continue to be, quite stressing. As for now, I am still developing my prototype. I have to say, the most difficult modules have been written. It’s all about tweaking, improving, optimizing [...]
Ready for the print job
Aug 27
Indesign. Once you get the hang of it, it’s an awesome tool to design your text document. I finally finished my thesis document, but it took more time than I keyed for it. Redefining paragraph styles, tweaking some parts, reviewing the text and structure over and over again. But now, it has been uploaded to [...]
Co-design session done!
Jun 30
And once again, I wasn’t disappointed by the results this co-design session yielded. I invited some friends and told them what an ubiquitous world could look like in 20 years. The first thing they mentioned, like everybody does by the way, was the big privacy issue. I then suggested the global central data management, responsible [...]
What do you think about ABSOLUTELY NOT? I have been breaking my head today about a paper prototype, which I have to prepare for my user tests on Monday. At first, I didn’t even consider user research as a necessity, but now I even have trouble creating a paper version of my prototype’s interface. My [...]
Gone shopping for shirts
Jun 4
As I said in my previous post, I went shopping with a friend today (damn that sounds girlish…). Since he knows I am a man of good taste, he requested my advice. Since this was a nice opportunity to analyze people’s shopping behavior, I agreed to join him. Thus we were off to the shopping [...]
Thesis finished!
Jun 3
Unfortunately not for me though. Today was the deadline for some of my classmates to hand over the printed version of their dissertation. As for me (and a whole bunch of unlucky guys ‘n gals), today was just another deadline. I have to say, my text is quite in it’s final stage, at least, that’s [...]
Long time since I posted anything, but I have been very busy working on my thesis and blahblahblah. I do have some drafts pending, but at the moment I doubt if I’ll ever finish them. But I’m gonna save you the “busy times” gibberish. But to give you an update on how things are right [...]
Hard disk crash?
Mar 14
Luckily, that didn’t happen to me yet. But to avoid such a digital massacre, I’ve set up an SVN to back-up my thesis files. I don’t want to take any risk. I use the free version of Beanstalk, a great Google service. I’m not the first student who uses SVN as a back up for [...]
The Abstract
Mar 14
I finally finished my abstract! After missing the first deadline (medialab is partially to blame for that) I was granted another week to elaborate my abstract texts and image. The dutch text was ready before the first deadline, but the english text and the image were far from good. So, there it was, another week [...]