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Carnegie Mellon design students propose a new IDSA website

By Michael DiTullo - October 29, 2010

in design.edu | Featured Items | Video

IDSA.org redesign: a digital short by CMU IDSA from Julius Tarng on Vimeo.

I like to define design as "Design is the ability to see nothing is as it should be, coupled with the desire and aptitude to do something about it." In a complete personification of that spirit of optimistic rebellion, Carnegie Mellon University students held a collaborative design session to redesign the IDSA website. Julius Tarng, of the student chapter was one of the session's facilitators, "14 of us met in a room, threw the website up on the projector, and critiqued the design of the IDSA website. We then came up with a new navigation flow that we felt better organized the content, and drew up wireframes to explain our designs. Then, we created Photoshop mockups" .

The IDSA launched their current website in June of 2010. While many of us picked and prodded at it in the discussion forums, these students actually did something about it. Watch the video to get an overview, and click here to see higher resolution images of the mockups.

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Ash

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@Micheal, you do realize CMU has one of the best design schools in the country...?
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Sam

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THANK YOU CMU IDSA. We all thought it, you actually did something about it.

Dear IDSA,

The ball is in your court.

Signed,

Every Industrial Designer
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Trent

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Thank you for the inspiration and for creating alternatives to the current and challenging website.

What a great project!
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Micheal

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Engineers critique designs, then to be implemented by more engineers. Sigh. CMU, sketch more calculate less.
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