This is a journal of my experiences pursuing a PhD in Informatics at the University of California, Irvine.

Do Artifacts Have Politics?

by Langdon Winner

Indigenous Circuits: Navajo Women and the Racialization of Early Electronic Manufacture

by Lisa Nakamura

Is Technology Neutral?

by Robert J. Whelchel

World Brain: The Idea of a Permanent World Encyclopedia

by H. G. Wells

Searching for Personal Territory in a Human-Computer Interaction Design Studio

by Micah Gideon Modell and Colin M. Gray

Man-Computer Symbiosis

by J.C.R. Licklider

A declaration of the independence of cyberspace

by John Perry Barlow

The Library of Babel

by Jorge Luis Borges

In Education We All Want to Be Nice: Lessons Learned from a Multidisciplinary Design Studio

by Katherine Cennamo

As We May Think

by Vannevar Bush

"People who take this class always say there is too much reading. I don't care."

Science and the State

by Alondra Nelson, Charis Thompson, Sonja Van Wichelen, Joy Rohde, Joshua Barkan, Christo Sims, Diana Graizbord

The shapes of grief: Witnessing the unbearable.

by Christina Sharpe

Friendship, discourse and belonging in the studio: the experiences of ‘non-traditional' students in Design Higher Education

by Samantha Jane Broadhead

The Private Fiefdom as Planetary Project

by Raymond Craib

Dialogic Status in Design Education: Authority and Peer Relations in Studio Class Conversations

by R. Keith Sawyer

First day of school :)

An ethnography of the design studio: Exploring social interactions and performances in studio environment through Goffman's dramaturgical approach

by Süleyman Enes Karabulut, Ozge Merzali Celikoglu

How to be a Teaching Assistant in just two days

Independent Study - Understanding Studio Culture through critical analysis of existing scholarly work

User Experience As Legitimacy Trap

by Paul Dourish

An Image of Society: Gender and Racial Representation and Impact in Image Search Results for Occupations

by Danaë Metaxa, Michelle A. Gan, Su Goh, Jeff Hancock, James A. Landay

Some reflections on my pre-PhD preparation

Educating the Reflective Practitioner, Chapter 2

by Donald Schön

Space of Inquiry, v5

Behind the Mask: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Interaction in the Design Studio

by Jeffrey Karl Ochsner

A New Paradigm for Design Studio Education

by Tsungjuang Wang

The style and goals of design critique pedagogy: how to bring criticism to life in the studio classroom

Teaching At The Bauhaus

by Rainer K. Wick

The Design Critique as a Model for Distributed Learning

by Brad Hokanson

Critical absence versus critical engagement: problematics of the crit in design learning and teaching

by Christine Percy

The 'right kind of telling' - knowledge building in the academic design studio

by Katherine Cennamo, Carol Brandt

The Analytics of Power: Re-presenting the Design Jury

by Helena Webster

My TA assignment: 139W, Critical Writing on Information Technology

The Perceived Value of Informal, Peer Critique in the Instructional Design Studio

by Jason K. McDonald, Peter J. Rich, Nicholas B. Gubler

Fear and Learning in the Architectural Crit

by Rachel Sara and Rosie Parnell

Performing Tribal Rituals: A Genre Analysis of 'Crits' in Design Studios

by Deanna P. Dannels

Critique as Collaboration in Design Anthropology

by Laura Forlano and Stephanie Smith

Embodied reasoning in architectural critique

by Keith M. Murphy, Jonas Ivarsson and Gustav Lymer

Space of Inquiry, v4

'Peer Critique' in Debate: A Pedagogical Tool for Teaching Architectural Design Studio

by Kristof Crolla, Paula Hodgson, and Angel Wai Yuk Ho

The Components of the ‘Crit’ in Art and Design Education.

by John P. Healy

At the end of a huge crit in the summer, it was 'crap'–I'd worked really hard but all she said was 'fine' and I was gutted.

by Bernadette Blair

Informal peer critique and the negotiation of habitus in a design studio

by Colin M. Gray

Making judgements about students making work: Lecturers' assessment practices in art and design

by Susan Orr, Sue Bloxham

Beyond Content, Deeper than Delivery: What Critique Feedback Reveals about Communication Expectations in Design Education

by Deanna P. Dannels, Amy Housley Gaffney, Kelly Norris Martin

The Design Studio, Models of Creativity and the Education of Future Designers

by Anthony Williams, Michael Ostwald, Hedda Haugen Askland

The design studio 'crit' - Teacher–student communication

by Gabriela Goldschmidt, Hagay Hochman, Itay Dafni

Educating Artists: Theory and Practice in College Studio Art

by Stacey McKenna Salazar

A Foucauldian look at the Design Jury

by Helena Webster

Approaches to Coaching Students in Design Reviews

by Robin Adams, Tiago R. Forin, Cole H. Joslyn

Teaching creativity in art and design studio classes: A systematic literature review

by R. Keith Sawyer

Novelty ≠ Creativity: How Measurement Distorts Our Understanding of Creative Practice

The Impact of Technology and Post Modern Art on Studio Art Education

by Andrew Phelan

Space of Inquiry, v3

Cognitive Dissonance

by Leon Festinger

The Design Enterprise: Rethinking the HCI Education Paradigm

by Anthony Faiola

Organizing Metaphors for Design Methods in Intermediate HCI Education

by Anne Pivonka, Laura Makary, Colin M. Gray

Hiring for Creativity in a World of UX Design Systems

The Bauhaus and Studio Art Education

by Andrew Phelan

Limitations in the decision strategies of design students

by Roger Simmonds

Rethinking Design Education for the 21st Century: Theoretical, Methodological, and Ethical Discussion

by Alain Findeli

Design Education in Crisis: The Transition from Skills to Knowledge

by Jacques R. Giard

Materialising the Studio. A systematic review of the role of the material space of the studio in Art, Design and Architecture Education

by James Corazzo

An Attempt to Understand the Design Studio as a Distinctive Pedagogical Setting

by Duaa Al Maani, Andrew Roberts

Creativity And Speed Of Mental Processing

by Jonna Kwiatkowski, Oshin Vartanian, Colin Martindale

A fix for fixation? Rerepresenting and abstracting as creative processes in the design of information systems

by Doris Zahner, Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Barbara Tversky, James E. Corter, Jing Ma

How do you take something serious, and make it trivial in twenty minutes?

Reflective Design

by Phoebe Sengers, Kirsten Boehner, Shay David and Joseph ‘Jofish’ Kaye

An update on my Hiring for Creativity research study

The pursuit of newness: Advertising, creativity and the ‘narcissism of minor differences’

by Sean Nixon

The Coming of Post-industrial Design

by Nigel Cross

Understanding and supporting the design systems practice

by Yassine Lamine, Jinghui Cheng

Creativity in Design: Analyzing and Modeling the Creative Leap

by Nigel Cross

Advancing Donald Schön’s Reflective Practitioner: Where to Next?

by Linus Tan, Anita Kocsis, Jane Burry

Lost in translation; Reconsidering reflective practice and design studio pedagogy

by Inger Mewburn

The reflective practice of design teams

by Rianne Valkenburg and Kees Dorst

Objects as knowledge: A case study of outsight

by Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau, Anna Green, Paul L. March, Sune Vork Steffensen

Space of Inquiry, v2

Investigating the Homogenization of Web Design: A Mixed-Methods Approach

by Sam Goree, Bardia Doosti, David J. Crandall, Norman Makoto Su

An Investigation of Self-Efficacy and Topic Emotions in Entry-Level Engineering Design Learning Activities

by Suzanne Jones, Brett Campbell, Idalis Villanueva

Measles, mumps, shit design

Toward a Model of UX Education: Training UX Designers Within the Academy

by Guiseppe Getto, Fred Beecher

Barriers Faced by Coding Bootcamp Students

by Kyle Thayer, Amy J. Ko

Do User Experience (UX) Design Courses Meet Industry’s Needs? Analysing UX Degrees and Job Adverts

by James Branch, Christopher J. Parker and Mark Evans

Brand yourself, design your future: Portfolio-building in the social media age

by Leah Scolere

The Politics of the Artificial, Chapter Thirteen

by Victor Margolin

The Politics of the Artificial, Chapter Twelve

by Victor Margolin

The Politics of the Artificial, Chapter Seven

by Victor Margolin

The Politics of the Artificial, Chapter One

by Victor Margolin

The Construction of Preference

by Paul Slovic

The Disposition Toward Originality

by Frank Barron

Divergent Thinking as an Indicator of Creative Potential

by Mark A. Runco and Selcuk Acar

What design can't do

by Kees Dorst

Enhancing design skills in art and design education

by Tun Zaw Oo, Timur Kadyirov, Lyajsan Kadyjrova and Krisztián Józsa

Can creativity be developed?

by J. P. Guilford

A short, grandiose theory of design

by Jay Doblin

Creativity

by J. P. Guilford

Affect and Creativity at Work

by Teresa M. Amabile, Sigal G. Barsade, Jennifer S. Mueller, Barry M. Staw

Teachers’ conceptions of student creativity in higher education

by Isa Jahnke, Tobias Haertel, and Johannes Wildt

Understanding Design as a Social Creative Process

by Andy Warr and Eamonn O’Neill

Constructing Grounded Theory, chapter 5

by Kathy Charmaz

My first study was approved!

Design Fixation

by David G. Jansson and Steven M. Smith

Space of Inquiry, v1

How Templated Requirements Specifications Inhibit Creativity in Software Engineering

by Rahul Mohanani, Paul Ralph, Burak Turhan, Vladimir Mandic

The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire But Reject Creative Ideas

by Jennifer S. Mueller, Shimul Melwani, Jack A. Goncalo

Requirements Framing Affects Design Creativity

by Rahul Mohanani, Burak Turhan, Paul Ralph

So I registered for class...

What makes a creative day? A diary study on the interplay between affect, job stressors, and job control

by Carmen Binnewies, Sarah C. Wörnlein

Abduction: The Logic of Discovery of Grounded Theory

by Jo Reichertz

Systemic Creative Problem-Solving: On the Poverty of Ideas and the Generative Power of Prototyping

by Frédéric Vallée-Tourangeau

Developing Entry-Level Portfolios: Strategies for Graduating Students

by Janet Lee Coleman

Unpacking Creativity

by Kerrie Unsworth

Motivation for Creativity in Design Students

by Shulamith Kreitler and Hernan Casakin

Preparing Future UX Professionals: Human Skills, Technical Skills, and Dispositions

by Emma J. Rose, Cynthia Putnam, Craig M. MacDonald

Why Do Ideas Get More Creative Across Time? An Executive Interpretation of the Serial Order Effect in Divergent Thinking Tasks

by Roger E. Beaty and Paul J. Silvia

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Second edition, chapters 10 & 11

by James Paul Gee

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Second edition, chapter 9

by James Paul Gee

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Second edition, chapter 8

by James Paul Gee

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Second edition, chapter 7

by James Paul Gee

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Second edition, chapter 6

by James Paul Gee

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Second edition, chapters 4 & 5

by James Paul Gee

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Second edition, chapter 3

by James Paul Gee

Camp or College: Student Perspectives from College Computer Science Departments and Coding Boot Camps on Skills Learned

by Quinn Burke, Cinamon Bailey

I submitted my first study to the IRB for approval.

An Introduction to Discourse Analysis, Second edition, chapters 1 & 2

by James Paul Gee

Understanding the Software Development Industry’s Perspective on Coding Boot Camps versus Traditional 4-year Colleges

by Quinn Burke, Cinamon Bailey, Louise Ann Lyon, Emily Green

Can I use TA? Should I use TA? Should I not use TA? Comparing reflexive thematic analysis and other pattern-based qualitative analytic approaches

by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke

Null effects of boot camps and short-format training for PhD students in life sciences

by David F. Feldon, Soojeong Jeong, James Peugh, Josipa Roksa, Cathy Maahs-Fladung, Alok Shenoy, and Michael Oliva

Design Systems for Conversational UX

by Robert J. Moore, Eric Young Liu, Saurabh Mishra, Guang-Jie Ren

A Systematic Review and Thematic Analysis of Community-Collaborative Approaches to Computing Research

by Ned Cooper, Tiffanie Horne, Gillian Hayes, Courtney Heldreth, Michal Lahav, Jess Holbrook, Lauren Wilcox

Creativity in the design process: co-evolution of problem–solution

by Kees Dorst and Nigel Cross

Toward good practice in thematic analysis: Avoiding common problems and be(com)ing a knowing researcher

by Virginia Braun and Victoria Clarke

Reprioritizing the Relationship Between HCI Research and Practice: Bubble-Up and Trickle-Down Effects

by Colin M. Gray, Erik Stolterman, and Martin Siegel

The Nature and Art of Workmanship, chapters 1-4

by David Pye

Designer's Identity: Personal Attributes And Design Skills

by Kamila Kunrath, Philip Cash, and Maaike Kleinsmann

Thematic Networks: An Analytic Tool For Qualitative Research

by Jennifer Attride-Stirling

Creativity As Action: Findings From Five Creative Domains

by Vlad Petre Glăveanu, et al

Rewriting the Language of Creativity: The Five A’s Framework

by Vlad Petre Glăveanu

Design Thinking: An Educational Model towards Creative Confidence

by Ingo Rauth, Eva Klppen, Birgit Jobst and Christoph Meinel

Dialogue In The Making: Emotional Engagement With Materials

by Ingar Brinck and Vasudevi Reddy

An In Vivo Analysis of Crafts Practices And Creativity - Why Affordances Provide a Productive Lens

by Michael Kimmel and Camilla Groth

Synectics: The Development of Creative Capacity, chapter 5

by William J. J. Gordon

Synectics: The Development of Creative Capacit, chapter 2

by William J. J. Gordon

Synectics: The Development of Creative Capacity, chapter 1

by William J. J. Gordon

Stimulating Creativity, chapter 9

by Morris I. Stein

Creativity and Culture

by Morris I. Stein

The Standard Definition of Creativity

by Mark A. Runco and Garrett J. Jaeger

The Philosophy of Creativity

by Berys Gaut

A housing update: Aliso Viejo

Awful apartments, and a loose plan with Paul and Katie

Course work and equivalencies

Looking for a place to stay in Irvine

Headed back to school...