This week a colleague of mine challenged me to tell him if I can (and if so how can I) tell the difference between something that was designed and something that wasn't.
Of course, the real answer is that I can't 100% of the time be right, but standing in the ...
I was first introduced to design principles in 2009 from @LukeW (Luke Wroblewski) in his great Interaction09 talk in Vancouver (see it here):
Luke Wroblewski - Parti and the Design Sandwich from Interaction Design Association on Vimeo.
His follow up article on principles was also really clarifying about their value and about ...
Today I entered my teaching space for the first time in months. This time I am just teaching for a week. And I'm teaching in a foreign country. This offers a new set of challenges and opportunities.
So far the biggest challenge of being a visiting foreign instructor is about ...
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Wow! another amazing chapter has been released about Contextual Design by the authors of the book with the same name. As someone who used this book for 3 years teaching contextual research methods, this chapter is very welcome in that it has updated the core since that release and consolidates ...
Help me! I want to go to Austin
April 8th 2011
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aesthetics,
design research,
education,
event announcement,
experience design,
foundations,
general thoughts,
interaction design,
IxD,
service design,
tools
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One of the best advantages of being a professor is getting 16wks off every summer. But that length of time quickly gets boring unless you find ways to fill it. One of the ways I like to do to fill it is to travel around the world to anywhere that ...
December 2nd 2010
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design research,
education,
event announcement,
experience design,
foundations,
general thoughts,
interaction design,
IxD,
ixda,
organizing IxD,
service design
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Below is the slide deck (on slideshare.net) for my keynote presentation at Interaction South America in Curitiba, BR. It seemed to be well receive. It was video taped and you might have been lucky to see the live web cast, but if not I'm told the video will be replaced ...
After teaching design research the last 2 years, I realized that our language in my teaching of the course (which I inherited upon my arrival) was filled with branded terminology and even used branded literature as the basis for teaching. While I appreciate the work of these brands (I'm not ...