Blogs

  • 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…

  • Don’t throw the mental model baby out with the skeuomorphic bathwater

    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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…