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  • CHI grows up

    Aaron Marcus Posted: Thu, May 16, 2013 - 11:12:26

    CHI 2013 took place from April 27 through May 2 in Paris’s Palais des Congrès, not far from the Arc de Triomphe on the western edge of the city center.…

  • Design, CHI, richness of spirit

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Mon, May 13, 2013 - 12:19:11

    Since returning from Paris, I have been tapping away, writing about CHI, commenting on the papers, the panels, the oblique and direct epistemologies. But what keeps rising to the top…

  • Prototyping businesses: plan vs. play

    Tim Fife Posted: Fri, May 10, 2013 - 10:19:27

    I’ve recently come back from a two-day workshop on Lean StartUp, hosted by The Pollenizer in Sydney, where I got a crash course in how entrepreneurs take a sketchy idea…

  • What would it take to be inclusive?

    Jennifer Mankoff Posted: Tue, May 07, 2013 - 1:03:13

    It's been a while since I was asked to join the group of interactions bloggers. I guess I've been waiting for the right inspiration to strike. I've just attended CHI,…

  • What is user experience?

    Ashley Karr Posted: Mon, May 06, 2013 - 12:55:48

    Take away: User experience (UX) is a type of engineering and design that focuses on creating products and systems that work best for the intended user. Defining user I am…

  • Designing from the sixth sense

    Monica Granfield Posted: Thu, May 02, 2013 - 12:35:41

    This year’s CHI conference is "Changing Perspectives." It got me thinking about the perspective of design, and design by intuition in technology.Perspective is the state of one’s idea or views,…

  • 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…