Blogs
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Taking UX to Eleven
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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An “intellectual turn” at CHI´13?—Paris and the philosophy of interaction
Mikael Wiberg Posted: Mon, April 15, 2013 - 10:51:56
CHI´13 is just around the corner now. In a couple of weeks from now the global CHI community is coming together, not primarily to meet the Spring in Paris, but…
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Designing the cognitive future, part II: memory
Juan Hourcade Posted: Fri, April 05, 2013 - 2:59:01
In these posts I’ve been discussing how interactive technologies are affecting our cognitive processes, and exploring how they may do so in the future. In the previous post I discussed…
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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…
