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Jan 9, 2011 • A series of people have been asking me online about my experience at NYU ITP. This blog post was created as a way for me to direct potential applicants to common questions about the program, why I’m here, how it’s been for myself personally. I can say that NYU ITP has been a life-affirming program...
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Jan 6, 2011 • We were inspired about making celebrations more interactive and fun in an open space. In preparation for celebrations, people often hand around print cards to sign along as a mass greeting. Meanwhile, in social networks, some users prefer leaving messages on a person’s Facebook wall or Twitter. What would happen if we provided a tangible...
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Nov 9, 2010 • Code MAMA – Design for Unicef Presentation from cindy wong on Vimeo. In Design for Unicef, my teammates and I have settled on a project aimed to help a specific local population in post-disaster situations. Here’s our project proposal outlined in our presentation, above. Code MAMA is a mobile outreach service that aims to connect...
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Nov 4, 2010 • Generation Default: Student Debt as a driving force in 2022 By Cindy Wong Future of the Infrastructure: Research Paper Research Paper PDF | Footnotes Attached Note: For my course, Future of the Infrastructure, we are to research and identify a trend that will drive future development of society by 2022. I elected to pick college...
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Oct 31, 2010 • How Does Your City Feel? captures the emotions people feel in their cities by measuring them in the contents of local real-time Twitter messages. What are people feeling in New York City? Seattle? San Francisco? Sad? Happy? Angry? Love? When you visit, please choose a city and click an emotion to see the results. If...
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Oct 4, 2010 • Trace Route: Seeing Pings Mapped from cindy wong on Vimeo. For Understanding Networks, we were assigned to examine trace routes as we ping various websites and see the travel routes they take throughout the Internet. I created a movie that visually maps out the routes through 24 sites. From there, I culled out the most...
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Sep 23, 2010 • Generation Default: America’s College Debt is a ticking financial time bomb. In 2008, the American appetite for debt exploded when the real estate market collapsed. However, the demand for higher education and loan funding for it is still growing, despite the evidence that college debt has become burdensome to today’s soon-to-be college graduates. As college...
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Sep 6, 2010 • via Frank Chimero. Sweet and simple. Does it have heart or not? For any creative-tech makers inclined, that’s the killer question. Print this. Display it. Remind yourself. Daily Affirmations.
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Aug 24, 2010 • Meet Fashion Forecast, the web application that pulls up your destination’s temperature readings (from Yahoo! Weather RSS feed) and recommends you a stylish, weather appropriate wardrobe before you have to step out the door. Choose your fashion preference based on popular brands and if you’re a guy or a girl. Site created with PHP as...
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Aug 24, 2010 • SocialDrinkster is about free alerts for free things. Pass freebies to your friends. On The Go, On Your Phone. A friendly mobile app developed in New York City. Duties included user development/experience, web programming, mobile web experience, back-end database management and visual branding. Debuted at the 2010 New York University’s ITP Spring Show. Featured in the...
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Aug 24, 2010 • StreetSnaps is a mobile street photography site where people can photograph the fashionably dressed in New York City and email their photographs directly from their cellphones. The StreetSnaps website will automatically take the photography emails and upload the content online based on the New York City neighborhoods indicated. See the stylistic choices of folks dressed...
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Aug 24, 2010 • Comments Closed FarmBridge is an online social management hub for local food organizers and their community members. Proposed and presented to Microsoft for the 2010 Microsoft Design Expo, the site offered easy design solutions to make it more convenient for organizers to manage their groups, for members to anticipate their next food treats, and to use crowd-sourcing...
