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The July-August issue of Interactions magazine is out and more and more content is publicly available online (thank goodness):
Editorial: Interactions: Time, Culture, and Behavior Cover story: The Waste Manifesto “At The End of the World, Plant a Tree”: Six questions for Adam Greenfield –> Although not publicly available on the Interactions site, this article (which I facilitated and has clearly inspired Jon Kolko’s thinking, as becomes clear in the above editorial), can be found on Adam Greenfield’s personal site. Make of his introduction what you want. Column: Designing the Infrastructure –> Unfortunately the online version of the article comes without the figures that Norman refers to in his text. Column: The Golden Age of Newsprint Collides With the Gilt Age of Digital Information Distribution Column: Ships in the Night (Part II): Research Without Design? Column: On Hopelessness and Hope |
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2 July 2009
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1 July 2009
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Pattie Maes, an associate professor in MIT’s Program in Media Arts and Sciences, leads research in human-computer interfaces at MIT’s Media Lab. She recently spoke with MHT associate editor James M. Connolly about the lab and innovation.
(via InfoDesign) |
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1 July 2009
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The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), is all devoted to education. It is available as a free download.
Table of contents: The next issue has the theme “Celebrating people and technology”. (via Usability News) |
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26 June 2009
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15 June 2009
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| Interaction designers, business strategists and usability experts gathered last week in Malmö, Sweden for the third edition of the “From Business to Buttons” conference.
Videos (alternate link) of the presentations are now online. A selection: The Zen of presentation design & delivery: Why it matters now more than ever “What’s going on” to “We’re not gonna take it” Designing personal informatics Designing humanity into your products Designing beyond the screen: the convergence of products, interactions and services “Every 3 Seconds, a User Dies Somewhere”. Making analytics matter in your design process Why designers fail and what to do about it |
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11 June 2009
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Fabio Sergio, a design and user experience strategist, creative director at frog design, and former associate professor at Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, was one of the speakers at the Frontiers of Interaction conference that took place on Tuesday in Rome, Italy.
- View presentation notes and slides (alternate link) You can also watch other Frontiers of Interaction resentations in English (skip the Italian introduction):
See also my earlier post on Matt Jones’ talk at the same conference. |
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9 June 2009
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5 June 2009
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The field of mobile gestures is a fascinating one that Nokia is keenly exploring and researching, with explorative designers Younghee Jung and Dan Macleod on the frontline.
Last week the people of Nokia Conversations had the opportunity to chat to them at The Inside Story design day in London about their ideas on mobile gesture design, the research they’ve been doing, and the tools that have been developed to help test how well future mobile gestures might work.
In a video interview they talk about the creation of the gesture phone prototype that they use to explore this new dialect of physical interaction designed to let you perform tasks and communicate in very new ways. Read full story (with video interview) |
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30 May 2009
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27 May 2009
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Nokia Conversations is reporting on a rare behind-closed-doors Nokia design event dubbed The Inside Story.
According to a first post, Alastair Curtis, Head of Design at Nokia, shared the design insight that your mobile is becoming more of a “sixth sense”, equipping you with “super-human” abilities.
A second post reports on a presentation by user interface designers Juliana Ferreira and Lee Cooper on the future of Nokia homescreens.
Also check the Making of the N97 video. |
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27 May 2009
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The latest issue of Ubiquity, a web-based publication of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), contains a fascinating account by Phillip Tobias on the emerging design principles that will generate a positive user experience, and satisfied and loyal users.
Ubiquity is dedicated to fostering critical analysis and in-depth commentary on issues relating to the nature, constitution, structure, science, engineering, cognition, technology, practices and paradigms of the computing profession. (via InfoDesign) |
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26 May 2009
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6 May 2009
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If you like the writings by the highly original Elizabeth Churchill, a principal research scientist at Yahoo! Research in charge of the Internet Experiences Group — and I definitely do! — then this Spring has been a particularly rewarding period.
Here are some of the publicly available papers and articles, which she wrote or co-wrote: Spinning Online: A case study of Internet broadcasting by DJs Digital Order: Just over the horizon or at the end of the rainbow? Learning How: The search for craft knowledge on the Internet On trusting your socks to find each other (pdf) How big can you think? Givin’ you more of what you’re funkin’ for: DJs and the Internet |
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6 May 2009
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Most of the videos of the Interaction09 conference, that took place this February in Vancouver, Canada, are now available online (see also here). Here is a personal selection:
Kars Alfrink: Play in social and tangible interactions Dave Malouf – Foundations of Interaction Design: Bringing design critique to interaction design Jon Kolko – Design synthesis Aza Raskin – Designing in the open Marc Rettig – How to change complicated stuff Jared Spool and Friends – Hiring the next generation of Interaction Designers Luke Wroblewski – Parti and the design sandwich (see also earlier post with links to videos of presentations by Dan Saffer, Robert Fabricant and John Thackara). |
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30 April 2009
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Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Paul Warwick Thompson announced the winners and finalists of the 2009 National Design Awards, which recognise excellence across a variety of disciplines.
The 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award – given in recognition of an individual who has made a profound, long-term contribution to contemporary design practice – went to Bill Moggridge, a true pioneer in user-centred design and interaction design. “Bill Moggridge is a co-founder of IDEO, a global design consultancy, creating impact through design. A Royal Designer for Industry, Moggridge designed the world’s first laptop computer. He pioneered interaction design and is one of the first people to integrate human factors into the design of software and hardware. He has been a trustee of the Design Museum; visiting professor in interaction design at the Royal College of Art in London, lecturer in Design at the London Business School and a member of the Steering Committee for the Interaction Design Institute in Ivrea, Italy. He is currently consulting associate professor in the design program at Stanford University. His book, DVD and Web site “Designing Interactions” tell the story of how interaction design is transforming our daily lives.” Bill, congratulations from all of us at Experientia! |
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30 April 2009
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Today I spent some time looking through the CHI 2009 papers. Here is a personal selection (and you need an ACM membership to access them):
A comparative study of speech and dialed input voice interfaces in rural India Sacred imagery in techno-spiritual design A comparison of mobile money-transfer UIs for non-literate and semi-literate users Comparing semiliterate and illiterate users’ ability to transition from audio+text to text-only interaction StoryBank: mobile digital storytelling in a development context Designable visual markers “When I am on Wi-Fi, I am fearless”: privacy concerns & practices in everyday Wi-Fi use Sharing empty moments: design for remote couples |
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30 April 2009
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Tim McCoy of Cooper thinks it is, at least as a service offering and a career path.
There is also a rich discussion in the comment thread. |
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26 April 2009
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As a contributing editor for Interactions Magazine, I am tasked with finding clever people to write a story for the magazine. My first choice was Bruce Sterling. He accepted and wrote a wonderful contribution — much appreciated by the editors — that was chosen as the magazine’s cover story.
Thank you Bruce. |
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25 April 2009
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The latest issue of Interfaces Magazine, a quarterly magazine published by Interaction, the specialist HCI group of the British Computer Society (BCS), is all devoted to interaction in the real world.
Table of contents Download the “Interaction in the real world” Interfaces magazine (via Usability News)d |
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17 April 2009
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In December last year, the Usability Professionals’ Association (UPA) organised its first European conference in Turin, Italy, with a focus on the connection between usability and design.
The very successful conference, which was chaired by the UPA Europe president Silvia Zimmerman (who has meanwhile become president of UPA Global) and UPA-Italy chair Michele Visciola (who is also the president of Experientia), has clearly had some impact on UPA’s global thinking, as exemplified by its upcoming international conference in Portland, OR, USA. Not only is the look and feel of the global conference’s website remarkably similar to the European one, but three of the invited speakers are actually designers — Dan Saffer (Kicker Studio), Nathan Shedroff (California College of the Arts) and Raphael Grignani (Nokia Design) — with a specific focus on interaction design and experience design. Obviously we are excited about this embrace of design within the usability community and look forward to hearing more about this conference. |
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