March | 2019 | Sense & Scale

NYU D&T Session 15: Persona Design Continued; D&T in Kibera (Nairobi, Kenya)

Announcements April 4: Navigating Identities in the Workplace (NYU Wasserman Center, Kimmel Center). April 8: NYU Aging Incubator Lunch Seminars, talk by Prof A (Tandon Makerspace Auditorium). TCS Spring Writing Awards. Let me know if you would like to be considered before the April 8 deadline. Last year’s prize was $200. External Resources: Open Style […]

Notes from Preparation Call with Joshua Ogure

Last month, I held a preparatory call with Josh Ogure to explain the context of our class (including our discussions of salient social identities) and to prepare some backup slides in case of Internet connection issues. Here are some notes from our call. I bolded items I’d like to follow up on when we call […]

NYU D&T Session 14: Persona Design; Guest Speaker Vernelle Noel

Announcements Medical Bias Movie Roll Red Roll Update: Up to 8 students can sign up with non-discounted rate. If this changes and more students can sign up, I’ll update this signup sheet. If you want to go, please check the signup sheet, purchase your ticket, add your name to the sheet, and email me your […]

NYU D&T Session 13: Last Presentations; Setting Up Second Half

Announcements No make-up class on May 4 Roll Red Roll Update: March 29 & 30? Midterm resubmission policy now published Second Half of Semester External speaker updates and backgrounds: Vernelle Noel Suggestions: Patriot Act, Small Group, Peer Feedback, Tech Companies Final: Focus on Human-Centered Design. Testing your prototype or idea with 1-2 classmates, at least […]

NYU D&T Session 12: Midterm Context Presentations

Announcements Please fill out this quick poll for upcoming sessions today if you haven’t already! A discussion of Extra Credit Opportunities has been posted. Our class’s Guest Speaker and Field Trip calendar has been posted–more information to come soon. Remember that you are also presenting today (Wednesday)! If you need to prepare more context material, […]

NYU D&T Extra Credit Opportunities

If you would like to submit an extra credit “expanded blogging” assignment, please complete it as a blog post and put “Extra Credit” somewhere in the post’s title. Each extra credit post will earn up to 2.5 points on your total grade; the post should be 1000 words long to be eligible for the full […]

NYU D&T Session 11: Midterm Prototype Presentations

Agenda 4:30: Ishan (Parts 1 & 2) 4:40: Jeremy 4:45: Nicole 5:50: Tahmid, Tamim, Shahriar (group) 5:05: Alex 5:10: Jaynaba 5:15: Michael, Camil, Alice, Munsu (group) 5:35 Sierra 5:40 Ashia 5:45 Mohamed, Shiv (group) 5:55 Ari 6:00 Augustin 6:05 Nabiha, Rabiya, Abid (group) 6:20 END Assignments / Announcements Context Presentations on Wednesday 3/13! Remember that […]

NYU D&T Session 10: Midterm work session

Announcements: Class & NYU General Accessing documents for this class: Log into Google Drive with your NYU IDs. Field Trip / Guest Speaker questions Your blogs: Good work! Thanks for citing your sources along the way. Please make sure you have 10 posts + your Midterm by Monday. Please fill out this quick poll for […]

NYU D&T Field Trip and Guest Speaker Calendar

Additional details to be posted soon. March 27: Guest Speaker: Vernelle Noel, Georgia Tech April 3: Guest Speaker: Joshua Ogure, Kibera News Network April 10: Visit from/to Recurse Center (Metrotech). We will start in the classroom and walk together to Recurse Center. April 17: NYU Diversity: LGBTQ Center, Spiritual Life (NYU Washington Square). We will […]