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  • Engineering in reverse

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Thu, January 09, 2014 - 10:34:14

    As a new year starts, we may review the year past, taking note of passages and travel, selecting events that provide humorous, solemn, embarrassing, or celebratory glances back. A crafted…

  • Getting emotional over UX design

    Monica Granfield Posted: Mon, January 06, 2014 - 10:42:02

    First impressions, they are subconscious and visceral. The first impressions can make or break a product and an experience. A product that visually appeals to someone will draw them in.…

  • Post-visionary

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Mon, November 25, 2013 - 11:00:12

    The Interactions Timelines forum, 38 contributions by 28 authors over eight years, spanned the history of human-computer interaction and related topics. The November-December column on women who pioneered human-centered design…

  • Letter from Aarhus: scale and perspective

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Thu, November 21, 2013 - 10:41:38

    In addition to appreciating the ways in which Denmark has a design culture, which I wrote about last time, I am also appreciating not being in America, in two ways.…

  • Utilizing patients in the experience design process

    Richard Anderson Posted: Mon, November 18, 2013 - 10:00:45

    Dave deBronkart (a.k.a. e-Patient Dave) is quite well-known for his assertion during a TED talk and at other times that patients are the most underutilized resource in healthcare. Without question,…

  • Are we still just a digital shoebox?

    Monica Granfield Posted: Tue, November 12, 2013 - 10:39:09

    Digital pictures… they are fun to take and easy to share. With cameras built into our phones we can snap photos at a moment’s notice! Even with a separate camera…

  • Digging the crates: how DJs improvise like banjo players

    Steve Benford Posted: Mon, November 04, 2013 - 10:43:07

    If I hadn’t been a banjo player then perhaps I might have been a DJ. After all, both are cool, hip, and generally down with the kids. There are other…

  • Finding protected places

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Wed, October 30, 2013 - 10:28:39

    In a memorable scene, a boy is taught to swim by being thrown into a lake. In the movie, it worked. In real life, training is desirable, whether for heart…

  • A note on ‘compositional design thinking’

    Mikael Wiberg Posted: Tue, October 29, 2013 - 12:17:17

    Design thinking is growing as an explicit approach to interaction design. By acknowledging the thoughtful aspects of making, our community simultaneously acknowledges how design is both about doing/making and about…

  • My Apple was a Lemon

    Aaron Marcus Posted: Thu, October 24, 2013 - 12:04:00

    In August 2011, I bought an Apple MacBook Pro. No surprise; we’ve been a devoted Apple customer since January 1985, as well as a vendor to Apple, and even a…