Device Design Day 2011: Six Questions for Cori Schauer
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In anticipation of Device Design Day 2011, we’ve partnered with Kicker Studio to bring you a series where speakers from this year’s conference reflect on six questions about design and their practice. D3 brings together visual, interaction and industrial designers for a multi-disciplinary conversation about the design of consumer electronics and objects with embedded technology.
In anticipation of this year’s Device Design Day, Kicker Studio is profiling their line up of speakers, asking them each our Six Questions. We kicked off the series last week with Six Questions for Branko Lukic—today we’re chatting with Cori Schauer, an ethnographer in the User Centered Technologies group at NASA Ames Research Center. Most of her projects focus on helping the flight controllers NASA Johnson Space Center understand and visualize their processes, culture, and position in the aerospace market so they can prepare for future missions. Currently, Cori is working with the Planetary Data System, the archive for all NASA funded planetary science missions, to help them understand and serve their customers better.
Read on to discover more about the importance of storytelling, why Schauer doesn’t consider herself a designer and her love for Swiffer.
Kicker Studio: What is the most cherished product in your life? Why?
Cori Schauer: I’m not sure I have one thing that I cherish above all others. However, something I use everyday is my double-headed watch that Barbara Flanagan designed for MoMA in 2004. I love it because I don’t have to do time zone conversions in my head—I set one face to the time where I am traveling and keep the other face at pacific time. And, I’ve beat the hell out of that thing and it keeps ticking. It is one of my best purchases.
What’s the one product you wish you’d designed, and why?
The Swiffer. Harnessing the power of static electricity for cleaning? Genius! We have hardwood floors stained black, a gray cat, and a toddler, so Swiffering is a MUST on a daily basis. And, it’s totally fun. I enjoy cleaning, so maybe this just feeds into my Monica Geller-ness, but I like seeing the progress I’m making with my cleaning.
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