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  • 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…

  • Designer’s toolkit: A primer on using video in research

    Lauren Chapman Ruiz Posted: Wed, March 19, 2014 - 1:00:17

    In our last post, we explored a variety of methods for capturing user research. Yet a question lingered— how can you effectively use video in your research without influencing the…

  • Theory weary

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Fri, March 14, 2014 - 10:09:08

    Theory weary, theory leery, why can't I be theory cheery? I often try out little bits wheresoever they might fit. (Affordances are very pliable, though what they add is quite…

  • What serendipity is providing for me to read

    Richard Anderson Posted: Thu, March 13, 2014 - 12:48:54

    In the spirit of the new What Are You Reading? articles that appear within Interactions magazine… My use of Twitter and my attending local professional events have had a big…

  • Designer’s toolkit: A primer on capturing research

    Lauren Chapman Ruiz Posted: Sun, February 23, 2014 - 5:32:11

    You’ve been preparing for your research—recruiting, screening participants, devising schedules, testing discussion guides—and now you are deciding the best way to capture your research. But how? If you’re busy scribbling…

  • Aarhus and methods: post-visit reflections

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Thu, February 20, 2014 - 10:51:26

    One day, when I was young in Boston, a friend and I were discussing how people cross streets. I described what I thought of as the urban method, a negotiation…

  • Implicit interaction design

    Mikael Wiberg Posted: Wed, February 19, 2014 - 10:41:19

    I guess it’s not an understatement to say that 99.9% of all interaction design projects still end up as screen-based solutions in one form or another. Most of these solutions…

  • Everywhere you go there you are

    Monica Granfield Posted: Tue, February 11, 2014 - 1:20:39

    Lately I have been giving a good deal of thought to consistency in presentation within the UI and how this affects the overall end user experience.I find that the online…

  • Metablog: The decline of discussion

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Tue, February 11, 2014 - 1:06:58

    Is our changing relationship to information rendering discussion obsolete? More information of interest is online than I can consume. Pointers may be enough. Today I may need help or time…

  • I’ve heard the future of interaction

    Aaron Marcus Posted: Tue, February 11, 2014 - 12:55:58

    Recently, I watched, or rather, more specifically, heard, the movie Her, which features Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role of Theodore Twombly (now, there is an introvert’s name), a somewhat…