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  • Why teaching tech matters

    Ashley Karr Posted: Fri, May 16, 2014 - 10:12:56

    Education is one of the most valuable ways that we can improve quality of life for ourselves and others. This improvement applies to teachers as well as students. Having just…

  • Designing the cognitive future, part IV: Learning and child development

    Juan Hourcade Posted: Thu, May 15, 2014 - 10:29:54

    In this post, I discuss how technology may affect learning and child development in the future, and how the HCI community can play a role in shaping what happens.Let’s start…

  • Margaret Atwood: Too big to fail?

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Mon, May 12, 2014 - 10:27:33

    Margaret Atwood gave the opening plenary for the CHI conference in Toronto in late April. When Atwood’s name was announced at the Associate Chair meeting the prior December, the audience…

  • Wireframes defined

    Ashley Karr Posted: Tue, April 29, 2014 - 1:18:59

    Take away:Wireframing is the phase of the design process where thoughts become tangible. A wireframe is a visual 2D model of a 3D object. Within website design, it is a…

  • True digital natives

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Tue, April 22, 2014 - 12:49:32

    They’re coming. They may not yet be recognizable, but some are walking—or crawling—among us. The term digital native was coined in 2001 to describe technology-using youths, some of whom are…

  • Three fundamentals for defining a design strategy

    Uday Gajendar Posted: Tue, April 15, 2014 - 11:04:47

    The other day I tweeted this out while grasping what I’m trying to accomplish in my new role as Director of UX at a Big Data start-up: "Creating strategy (&…

  • Interaction design for the Internet of Things

    Mikael Wiberg Posted: Fri, April 11, 2014 - 3:19:02

    The Internet of Things (IoT) seems to be the next big thing, no pun intended! Embedded computing in everyday objects brings with it the potential of integrating physical things into…

  • It’s spring and a girl’s thoughts turn to design (and meaning)

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Fri, April 04, 2014 - 10:37:40

    It’s spring. Spring for me is always associated not so much with the bulbs that turn Blacksburg into a really beautiful place, but with serious thoughts about values. Of course,…

  • Preaching to the choir, just when you thought it was safe

    Monica Granfield Posted: Wed, April 02, 2014 - 10:41:12

    UX has made great strides within the mainstream IT and software community. Hard work, education, and return on investment have all contributed to growth of the UX design discipline over…

  • Swarms and tribes

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Mon, March 31, 2014 - 11:03:23

    A crack team led by Deputy Marshall Samuel Gerard (Tommy Lee Jones) race about in hot pursuit of Harrison Ford’s fugitive Dr. Richard Kimble. Gerard finds one of his men…