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#Octothorpe – Card Learning Tool

A project we created in my usability class (CIS 368 – Usability Design & Evaluation) was super interesting. Every group decided on a project, an application they would like to design. Then we went through several process such as Contextual Inquiry (understand current solutions) Contextual Analysis (analyze results, find out possible improvements) Ideation (creative process…

USA Washington - Wind Farm 2013-08-07 - 07-02-19

Washington, Electricity Generation

Washington state has a pretty important and big history in the area of electrical power generation. During World War II it had a great impact. Not only did the Grand Coulee Dam deliver energy for the citizens of Washington. It delivered energy for building Boing aircrafts, nuclear research and not to underestimate the Columbia Basin…

Farm USA 2013-07-31 - 11-27-46

Washington Farm, Wheat-Silo

Now I am at the farm where my brother and his wife live. My brother’s working on a silo to get it up and running for wheat-harvest. Since the silos have not been used for a while there is quite some work to put them back together. Silo The transportation system of the wheat, which…

Android (Eclipse) and Xcode

Summer School – Android / iOS

Android During the first week of Summer School we looked at Android and developed some very basic applications. Learning the fundamental concepts and for example using an Rest-API such as the one of Foursquare.   iOS In this week we are looking into iOS and try to get some foothold there. Today we simply started…

mr gull, mr ferry and mr bridge

Sleeping Bear Dunes & Mackinac Island

The Sleeping Bear Dunes On sunday we decided to go to the Sleeping Bear Dunes. These dunes are located at Lake Michigan and it provides a nice view. Energy-loaded kids, people, dogs may climb down the dunes and up again, however most of them underestimate the effort to climb the dunes again. A dog for…