Gene Lu

Conversation at Starbucks
Cybernetics
Tuesday, 09 February 2010

Can I get the Mocha Frappucino, No Whip?

Did you ever notice that whenever you order a drink at Starbucks, your drink is repeated three times by the employees? Did you also notice that there's a special order in which your drink is verbally constructed? Inspired by an article at Dubberly, I modeled this conversation to demonstrate a part of Starbucks' service design strategy.

 
A Retake on Playfair
Info Visualization
Thursday, 21 January 2010

William Playfair's

In our first assignment in Information Visualization with Steve Duenes, we experimented with different approaches on one of William Playfair's charts from "The Statistical Breviary."

 
The Toilet, a Closed Loop
Cybernetics
Thursday, 21 January 2010

Cybernetics not equal to robots!

According to the Wiki, cybernetics is the interdisciplinary study of the structure of regulatory systems. Ok, so when you think regulatory systems, you think toilets, right? Here's my attempt to show how the toilet is a self-regulating (closed-loop) system for Paul Pangaro's Cybernetics class. 

 
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