Felix's Documentation of Teaching at NYUAD

Place: Inside the teaching lab that is hidden somewhere deep in the Arts Center
Time: Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 2:40pm – 5:20pm

• Checking attendance

• Design Disciplines/Fields of Design
• Design Approaches
• Designing Interactions – 20 Interaction Design hints
• Sketching interfaces: flow chart diagram, stencils…
• Early prototyping
• Make your design fun-to-use…
• The Vitruvian virtues: Firmitas, Utilitas, Venustas (SOLID, USEFUL, BEAUTIFUL)
• Remember Rams: Less is more!
• Visual Hierarchy
• Have the courage to fail – Failing means learning
• Be ready to say no

A few great examples of what 3D printers can be used for…

• Enabling the Future.org
• A 3D Printed Marble Machine
• Procedural Voronoi Foams for Additive Manufacturing
• Printed Perforated Lampshades for Continuous Projective Images
• Augmenting Physical Avatars Using Projector-Based Illumination
• Kinematics Petals Dress
• Cilllia – 3d printed hair

• Soldering workshop (tools and how-to)
• General tips and building tricks

• Finish the stupid pet trick
• Read chapter 2 of Designing Interactions by Bill Moggridge (DesigningInteractions_2.pdf – available via NYU classes / also check out: http://www.designinginteractions.com/download)
• Read: Mandel-GoldenRules.pdf (available via NYU Classes)