Blogs

  • Magical or creepy? Designing for super-smart devices

    Uday Gajendar Posted: Thu, March 07, 2013 - 9:51:11

    We're now living in an era of "super-smart" devices that learn what we prefer (Nest), correlate data to anticipate our needs (Google Now), and quantify our habits for behavior change…

  • Couch Potato U.

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Wed, March 06, 2013 - 10:19:48

    An essay by Clay Shirky asserts that MOOC impact on higher education will parallel the impact of MP3s. The music industry could suppress Napster but not a deeper change: We…

  • Designing the cognitive future (part I)

    Juan Hourcade Posted: Tue, March 05, 2013 - 10:26:08

    We are designing the cognitive future and most of the time we don’t even realize it. We are changing the way cognitive processes work in people who use the technologies…

  • The start of an exploration

    Lauren Chapman Ruiz Posted: Tue, February 26, 2013 - 12:00:11

    Welcome to my first blog post for the interactions website. I am honored to have the opportunity to contribute, and my aim is to bring a unique perspective among the…

  • Welcome to my design+health blog

    Jina Huh Posted: Mon, February 25, 2013 - 11:59:23

    Welcome to my design+health blog. Let me first briefly introduce myself and tell you what you can expect to see from my blog. I am currently a National Library of…

  • Intellectualized instinct for a dazzling dance of design

    Tek-Jin Nam Posted: Thu, February 21, 2013 - 5:09:45

    Great design practitioners seem like masters of intuition. They design by habit and instinct. They often produce brilliant concepts instantly. Seeing them work, I ask many questions: Do their thinking…

  • Gravity over fences

    Dave Malouf Posted: Wed, February 20, 2013 - 4:20:01

    This past week I was in the position to talk a lot about how I design with storytelling. It was the first time for me where I was placed with…

  • HCI/CHI/UX and science fiction: A progress report

    Aaron Marcus Posted: Tue, February 19, 2013 - 2:04:55

    Since 1992 (at CHI 1992’s panel session at which I invited cyberpunk authors to talk about their ideas of the future), I have proposed that human-computer interaction (HCI) professionals would…

  • Out with the old, in with the new

    Richard Anderson Posted: Mon, February 18, 2013 - 11:43:50

    I've interviewed a lot of people on stage, sometimes individually, sometimes in pairs. Transcripts of three of my interviews of pairs were published as interactions cover stories. Two were published…

  • Are collaboration vacations part of my benefits package?

    Monica Granfield Posted: Fri, February 15, 2013 - 3:15:53

    Here is some news that may make anyone over the age of 18 gasp: Not everyone is on Facebook, Google+ or Twitter. Some people are more private and more introverted…