Blogs

  • A perfect storm

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Wed, May 01, 2013 - 10:03:24

    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 Posted: Mon, April 29, 2013 - 5:39:32

    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 Posted: Fri, April 26, 2013 - 7:12:13

    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…

  • Making wearables, umm, bearable

    Uday Gajendar Posted: Fri, April 26, 2013 - 12:19:33

    Wearable devices seem to be all the rage lately, from personal monitoring devices (like Nike FuelBand or FitBit) to smartpens (LiveScribe) to Google Glass, and beyond (medical accessories for the…

  • Taking UX to Eleven

    Joe Sokohl Posted: Wed, April 24, 2013 - 12:44:01

    About a hundred years ago, I worked as a road manager. Often, when I tell folks this, they get all misty-eyed, somewhat dewy, and ask, "What was it like?" I…

  • Ai Weiwei, names, and memories (The background - foreground playground)

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Tue, April 23, 2013 - 12:56:02

    This is the fourth in a series of postings I’ve been writing about Ai Weiwei’s recently closed retrospective at the Hirshhorn, the significance of AI Weiwei’s art with respect to…

  • So you learned stuff. Now what?

    Lauren Chapman Ruiz Posted: Mon, April 22, 2013 - 11:44:47

    I recently returned from a trip in which my team and I conducted a series of contextual inquiries with over 75 people on the topic of spinal cord injuries. We…

  • The end of civilization as we knew it

    Aaron Marcus Posted: Fri, April 19, 2013 - 10:17:34

    Is it just me? I don’t think so. I do not think that I am being singled out by sinister forces whose objective is to end usability, usefulness, and enjoyment…

  • Recursion: A thinking utensil in the creativity kitchen

    Tek-Jin Nam Posted: Wed, April 17, 2013 - 9:48:28

    If I had to recommend a book about creative thinking, it would be Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein’s Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World’s Most Creative People…

  • Roger Ebert and the social value of criticism

    Jeffrey Bardzell Posted: Mon, April 15, 2013 - 3:02:47

    On Friday, April 5, 2013, I saw something I would never expect to see: the passing of a critic reported as front page news in the New York Times. The…