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Bamboo House: Made in Alabama

The Bamboo House: Made in Alabama presents innovative architecture spearheaded by the Rural Studio at Alabama’s Auburn University School of Architecture, a studio focused on designing beautiful, affor

What I’ve Got: Tinder

It feels a little bit like cheating to use the media/blog circus’ favorite app de jour, but having watched three of my roommates pour two or three hours each into this iPhone app over the weekend, I f

What I’ve Got: Desirable Designed Snacks

The New York Times continues its crusade against all foods fattening with “The Extraordinary Science of Junk Food.”** You don’t often think of your food as having been designed, but this articles make

Challenge 3: FlightAware

The utility of a flight tracking app depends on two things: the accuracy of its updates, and how quickly you can interpret them. While Flight Aware has plenty of information, its presentation is not

What I’ve Got: Nostalgia and the Re-release

From time to time old brands or product lines will be re-launched. Consider the winter 2012 returns of Vidal Sassoon, the return of the vintage Herbal Essences bottles, and the Furby 2012. To some ext

What I’ve Got: Weather/Location Personalization

With all of our recent discussion of mobile apps and location/time/weather personalization, I was amused to see the non-mobile l’Oreal website today advise me on what make up to wear in rainy Cambridg

Challenge 4: shopper

Online shopping can be overwhelming. There are a lot of options and it is hard to efficiently sort through clothes to find what you want. Moreover, if you have something close to what you want, but no

I Saw You Harvard/Locally Viral/CS50 Projects

Every fall, when CS50 projects come out, one or two of the 400+ projects turns out to be a big hit on campus. The best projects to “go viral” on campus usually address some Harvard specific/local need

What I’ve Got: Who Spends $500 on a pen? Or $5,000?

Fountain pens can be a pricey luxury. The best brands release beautiful themed limited edition pens that can go for several hundred, or several thousand, dollars. And they sell out. Why would you spen

Seal: 3D Pen Challenge

The inspiration behind our pen lies in the ancient tradition of cylinder seals, which originated in Mesopotamia. Similar to stamp seals and ring seals, they rely on forming impressions on soft materia

What I’ve Got: High Design in Unexpected Places

Sorry this picture is so rotten, I snapped it in a dark emergency staircase. I saw this little sign and just had to take a picture of it. It’s such a nice example of good graphic design. Nice fonts, m

What I’ve Got: Craft + A Digital Asthetic

I saw this on a friend’s blog and just had to share it. This is not a digitally manipulated image, but rather a carved piece of furniture designed to appear as if it were a glitch. There is something

Challenge 7: The Astral 950

Wherever technology goes, luxury follows. Stylized designs have invaded every corner of the modern lifestyle. Given that so many Americans own handguns, we were surprised to discover that beautifully

What I’ve Got: Interactions

Based on how everyone answered the “What do you want to do with your life?” question during our guest lecture last week, I’d venture that if you aren’t reading Interactions, you probably should be. Pu

What I’ve Got: Spring

After a long winter, I don’t think there is anything people desire more than spring. Delmore Schwartz captured a Cambridge spring perfectly in this poem, published in Selected Poems, 1938-1959: Summer

FLOAT

Click here for presentation. We designed FLOAT to simplify travel. For challenge four, we were tasked with finding an application and improving its user experience. We chose to work with flight apps.