Work and thoughts on design research and design education
Thinking Design
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Building a Feature-Rich Markdown Editor with a Single HTML File
I think it’s called Vibe Coding? Today I engaged for the first time with Claude 3.7 and Wow its powerful. I first asked it to have a go at modeling a chair which it did ok at (see another post) but then I had the idea of doing a simple Markdown editor as a web…
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Feeling Rusty?
Thursday 9th Jan. Spent this evenings portfolio session finding old courses I have done in the past and highlighting some gaps. Revisited Course from LeManoosh and looked at his final case study of a phone case game controller. This is a simpler exercise than my PS5 controller which replaces it in my workflow and portfolio.…
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Portfolio is such a big word
Portfolio is such a big word Consolidate not complicate I have made previous attempts at pulling together a portfolio and got distracted heading down rabbit holes or diving back in to finish earlier projects. But not this time, this time I have a plan (ha ha). Seriously, there is a plan. Collect up a listing…
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ChatGPT Ate My Homework
Strange reflections This was my second “through a scanner darkly” moment with LLM’s. The first being when it wrote a working website from a description. On the day the capability to build a custom GPT was launched by OpenAI I decided as a test case to load up my MA Thesis as background information into…
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Qualitative analysis with Jupyter
Using Jupyter notebooks to perform qualitative analysis (or at least the data visualisation element) I have previously shown examples of how I have used D3.js to follow on from the qualitative analysis in Obsidian to visualise the resultant output in a tree plot. In this section I show the use of Jupyter and the python…
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Playing Tag! Extending Obsidians capability to analyse tags with python
Icon or eyesore? Yashica Electro 35 on Arcos debed in XTOL 1:1 I had a slight frustration with my latest efforts to use Obsidian as a tool for qualitative analysis. This arises mainly from how I’m trying to use tags as codes on notes or passages of dialog. The beauty of Obsidian is however that…
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Qualitative Analysis in Obsidian
This work looks at taking those raw sheets and coding them in Obsidian and processing them through D4.js to produce a range of tables, codebooks and visual representations useful in the qualitative analysis of this workshop activity.
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Obsidian for Qualatative Analysis
Qualitative Analysis I’ve used commercial qualitative analysis software to good effect in the past but I was unsatisfied with its lack of flexibility and critically the closed file format and the upgrade cycle. I was badly caught out trying to get Nvivo to install on Windows to open some old projects. I was attracted to…
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Building a Virtual Studio
Scan what you have The first step in my process was to scan the first year studio. The scan was taken right at the end of term so the place is in a bit of a mess but you get the basic ides from the image below. This scan was done quickly with the iPad…
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Zotero to Obsidian
The power of Zotero and Obsidian combined. (My Obsidian Obsession)
Got any reading / listening recommendations?
Brief Moments of Clarity 