Blogs

  • CHI 2013 roundup

    Elizabeth Churchill

    The 2013 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (commonly known as just CHI) took place in Paris from April 27 to May 2, 2013. Many of you…

  • CHI grows up

    Aaron Marcus

    CHI 2013 took place from April 27 through May 2 in Paris’s Palais des Congrès, not far from the Arc de Triomphe on the western edge of the city center.…

  • Design, CHI, richness of spirit

    Deborah Tatar

    Since returning from Paris, I have been tapping away, writing about CHI, commenting on the papers, the panels, the oblique and direct epistemologies. But what keeps rising to the top…

  • Prototyping businesses: plan vs. play

    Tim Fife

    I’ve recently come back from a two-day workshop on Lean StartUp, hosted by The Pollenizer in Sydney, where I got a crash course in how entrepreneurs take a sketchy idea…

  • What would it take to be inclusive?

    Jennifer Mankoff

    It's been a while since I was asked to join the group of interactions bloggers. I guess I've been waiting for the right inspiration to strike. I've just attended CHI,…

  • What is user experience?

    Ashley Karr

    Take away: User experience (UX) is a type of engineering and design that focuses on creating products and systems that work best for the intended user. Defining user I am…

  • Designing from the sixth sense

    Monica Granfield

    This year’s CHI conference is "Changing Perspectives." It got me thinking about the perspective of design, and design by intuition in technology.Perspective is the state of one’s idea or views,…

  • A perfect storm

    Jonathan Grudin

    Full disclosure: I generally don’t mention my company’s products in print, but can’t avoid it here. It’s not something I worked on.The summer after high school I was hired to…

  • What designers need to know/do to help transform healthcare

    Richard Anderson

    I've been immersing myself in all things focused in some way on dramatically changing the U.S. healthcare system and the patient experience. This has included attending lots of events. Last…

  • The new Gmail interface: better or worse?

    Elizabeth Churchill

    People have been declaring the death of email for decades. It is claimed that email is only used by fuddy-duddies, a dying breed of technologically challenged, uncool dinosaurs. That would…