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Download a PDF of the Dynamic Media Institute’s latest publication: The Experience of Dynamic Media. The book documents five years of graduate-level research in dynamic media, and more. 
A more official blurb: On the occasion of our tenth anniversary, we are very pleased to present The Experience of Dynamic Media — the second book publication of the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Combined with the previous, entitled The Language of Dynamic Media published in 2005, the books cover work from the Dynamic Media Institute between 2000 and 2010. This edition is organized in several sections and includes short essays by DMI professors and visiting faculty, student work through articles excerpted from the larger thesis documents, examples of extracurricular projects which were developed between DMI and outside partners, a series of DMI student-curated exhibitions, a selection of essays written by current DMI students, short accounts of six DMI alumni sharing their thoughts on the DMI experience, all MFA degree thesis abstracts from 2006 to 2010.

Download a PDF of the Dynamic Media Institute’s latest publication: The Experience of Dynamic Media. The book documents five years of graduate-level research in dynamic media, and more. 

A more official blurb: On the occasion of our tenth anniversary, we are very pleased to present The Experience of Dynamic Media — the second book publication of the Dynamic Media Institute at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Combined with the previous, entitled The Language of Dynamic Media published in 2005, the books cover work from the Dynamic Media Institute between 2000 and 2010. This edition is organized in several sections and includes short essays by DMI professors and visiting faculty, student work through articles excerpted from the larger thesis documents, examples of extracurricular projects which were developed between DMI and outside partners, a series of DMI student-curated exhibitions, a selection of essays written by current DMI students, short accounts of six DMI alumni sharing their thoughts on the DMI experience, all MFA degree thesis abstracts from 2006 to 2010.

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One last narrative user scenario: a donation service designed for the hundreds of thousands of students in the boston area. By Adrianna Gonzalez, Emily Kihn and Sarah Mayer. 

In my segment of last semester’s Design Research course students were asked to identify a social group that they felt was underserved in the digital marketplace and, based upon demographic research and ethnographic field studies, develop a proposal for a prototypical digitally-centered service tailored to their chosen user group.

The final deliverable for this segment comprised of a formal presentation along with a narrative user scenario explaining the service and defining its various touchpoints.

Several more of these narrative user scenarios have been posted on Vimeo.

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I have gotten a few more Narrative user scenarios from last semester’s Design Research course online.

In my segment of this course students were asked to identify a social group that they felt was underserved in the digital marketplace and, based upon demographic research and ethnographic field studies, develop a proposal for a prototypical digitally-centered service tailored to their chosen user group.

The final deliverable for this segment comprised of a formal presentation along with a narrative user scenario explaining the service and defining its various touchpoints.

Several of these narrative user scenarios have been posted on Vimeo.

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Teaching duties for this semester’s senior-level Design Research course at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design was split between myself, Jan Kubasiewicz and Gunta Kaza.

In my segment, students were asked to identify a social group that they felt is underserved in the digital marketplace and, based upon demographic research and ethnographic field studies, develop a proposal for a prototypical digitally-centered service tailored to thier chosen user group.

The final deliverable for this segment comprised of a formal presentation along with a narrative user scenario explaining the service and defining its various touchpoints.

Several of these narrative user scenarios have been posted on Vimeo. 

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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
Henry Ford