Blogs
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My computer still doesn’t know me: habit vs. intelligence.
Monica Granfield Posted: Fri, April 05, 2013 - 10:45:28
What I do as a habit is not necessarily what interests me the most. It's what I need, what I have to get done, maybe it's all I am aware…
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What’s empathy got to do with it?
Lauren Chapman Ruiz Posted: Fri, March 22, 2013 - 10:26:36
A strong human-centered designer has a keen sense of empathy for his or her users. The more fieldwork I perform at MAYA, the more I find the need to stress…
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Still failing the business value test
Daniel Rosenberg Posted: Wed, March 20, 2013 - 10:32:52
In my initial interactions blog post I promised to make my theme the relationship between UX practice and business value. For the March-April interactions issue, which should be arriving in…
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Don’t throw the mental model baby out with the skeuomorphic bathwater
Joe Sokohl Posted: Tue, March 19, 2013 - 10:17:08
Recently, Apple has been taken to task for its apparent hyperdevotion to skeuomorphism. Faux leather visual design, faux bookshelves, faux notepads—these artifacts of design become objet de derision in today's…
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Enlightenment by lesson, rather than by lecture
Tek-Jin Nam Posted: Mon, March 18, 2013 - 10:02:06
Today is Friday, but I am suffering from Monday sickness. It is the illness that many professors face at the beginning of a new semester. Korean universities commence the spring…
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Color my UX readable
Aaron Marcus Posted: Fri, March 15, 2013 - 3:00:44
The challenge of achieving good legibility and readability of color displays in all computer graphics (including all imagery and typography) is a constant one. Especially when computer-based displays show up…
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Humanoid (robot) hacking
Elizabeth Churchill Posted: Thu, March 14, 2013 - 9:00:42
Psy’s Gangnam Style took the world by storm in 2012. YouTube was flooded with copycat dancers performing unlikely gyrations. Fabulously, it wasn’t just human beings getting in on the fun.…
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An interFACE or to INTERface? On joineries of interactables
Mikael Wiberg Posted: Wed, March 13, 2013 - 10:51:34
The landscape of available interaction technologies and interfaces is growing at an amazing pace. Almost every day we see new interactive technologies launched in the market and almost every day…
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User-centered design: Science or common sense?
Monica Granfield Posted: Mon, March 11, 2013 - 2:46:47
There are many approaches to creating a user-centered design. There are methods such as user observations, creating personas, workflows, storyboards, journaling, conducting user interviews, voice-of-the-customer sessions, and usability testing. These…
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Ai Weiwei Part 3 (The background - foreground playground)
Deborah Tatar Posted: Mon, March 11, 2013 - 9:48:52
Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist with a recently closed show at the Hirschorn, memorializes the dead children of the 2008 Sichuan province earthquake in another form besides that mentioned in…
