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  • Measure twice cut once

    Monica Granfield Posted: Sun, February 10, 2013 - 12:31:59

    There is a popular book in woodworking called Measure Twice Cut Once by Jim Tolpin. The title says it all. Make sure your measurements are correct and your woodworking piece…

  • Ai Weiwei and the system 〈The background - foreground playground〉

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Tue, February 05, 2013 - 10:23:34

    Ai Weiwei's activism in the effort to understand the schools' collapse during the Sichuan earthquake of 2008 has not been confined to the realm of the truth of art. It…

  • No place for Hobbits

    Jonathan Grudin Posted: Mon, February 04, 2013 - 3:49:42

    ACM conference program committees may not violate the Geneva Conventions or international law. But they are unquestionably un-American. Presumption of innocence?—forget about it. “Until the rejection quota is reached, we…

  • Chef of user experience

    Tek-Jin Nam Posted: Tue, January 29, 2013 - 12:41:15

    Preparing a meal is an analogy that I use to explain the roles and expertise involved when designing and collaborating in a user experience (UX)-oriented product or system development team.…

  • On what holds UX back or propels UX forward in the workplace

    Richard Anderson Posted: Mon, January 28, 2013 - 2:43:34

    Among the teaching that I've done: UX management courses and workshops via the University of California Extension, during conferences, and in companies. And a topic I have always addressed therein:…

  • In the land of extreme social media

    Aaron Marcus Posted: Thu, January 24, 2013 - 4:04:08

    In past decades, we were drowning in a sea of undigested data. Today, we are drowning in a deluge of extreme, untamed social media growth. A half-decade ago, intrigued by…

  • Ai Weiwei and trust in the system 〈The background- foreground playground〉

    Deborah Tatar Posted: Wed, January 23, 2013 - 2:34:25

    Ai Weiwei has his first U.S. show at the Hirshhorn Gallery in D.C. It is a big retrospective, with many rooms, many galleries, many pieces, many different media, and many…

  • Embodied games from NYU ITP

    Phoenix Perry Posted: Fri, January 18, 2013 - 2:53:17

    At NYU ITP in fall of 2012, I created and taught a class focused on embodied play. We explored this question: “How can interactive design create powerful experiences by tapping…

  • Criticism and HCI

    Jeffrey Bardzell Posted: Thu, January 17, 2013 - 11:40:55

    The turn toward design and humanistic thinking in the last decade of HCI reflects a practical need: to design interactions used in our everyday lives, from the workplace to the…

  • On the question of human in HCI

    Elizabeth Churchill Posted: Wed, January 16, 2013 - 11:43:23

    WOW! I am so honored and so happy to be part of this amazing blogging lineup for interactions magazine. As some of you may know, I have been writing a…