Designing Interaction Design
essential qualities and capacities for interaction design practice
What am I doing?
Fifteen years ago, you could find Interaction Designers – if you traveled to Silicon Valley, or maybe a few select Universities across the world. Today, the profession supports a global network numbering in the thousands. Many of the professions leaders have backgrounds [...]
Category Archives: interaction design
Phd proposal update
May 19 09
Mental Models
May 12 09
I’ve been working the last few weeks on a mental model for the Pool project.. and it seems to be bearing fruit.
One thing that really surprises me (and I’m actually surprised that I’m surprised) is how the shift from working in text outline to making the thing visual really helps the whole concept start to [...]
March 2 09
MIcrosoft have added a new video in their envisioning the future series.. nice stuff here, editing in bits of their older stuff
universal declaration of users rights
November 17 08
Dan Saffer has posted A Universal Declaration of Users’ Rights over at the kicker blog.
I was reading this on the way into work today (iPhone, Google Reader, coffee in one hand, one eye scanning for trams across swanston st) and while I think this is a fantastic take on the state our digital shadow is [...]
Review: How Emotion is Made and Measured
November 13 08
How emotion is made and measured
Kirsten Boehner, Rogério DePaula, Paul Dourish, Phoebe Sengers
This is an important paper in the field of HCI and interaction design generally, and affective computing specifically. The paper puts forward “an interactional account of emotion and the role that it plays in action and practice.” It contrasts this with what the [...]
architecture as interaction design
November 12 08
Because I work with a lot of architects (and almost became one, once) I think quite a bit about architecture and its relationship to interaction design.
I’ve realised that much of this thinking is piecemeal and not really coherent, but I think that Ranulph’s comments in my recent proposal review were not just in reference to [...]
Designing Interaction Design: a proposal
October 23 08
I’ve recently undertaken a PhD with Soumitri Varadarajan at RMIT University, researching professional and academic notions of interaction design practice. Last weekend I presented my proposal at the twice-yearly Graduate Research Conference.
I’ve added a PhD Proposal page with the relevant sections of my proposal, outlining what I’ll do, why I think this research is worth [...]
Drupal.org redesign
September 19 08
looks like drupal is getting a redesign.. w00t!It’s great to see this.. I’ve often wished that drupal.org had some UX input. The scale of this design project is pretty awesome though… think about it, all those drupal users, who all have attitudes and beliefs about how the HQ should work. Calls for some innovative processes.
I’ll [...]
microsoft beyond touch video scenario
September 19 08
a new video from microsoft looking at touch and beyond.. nicely wrapped by a product design narrative.
<a href=”http://video.msn.com/?mkt=en-US&playlist=videoByUuids:uuids:98d1f695-b5e4-4492-ace0-cc3ba2adb375&showPlaylist=true&from=msnvideo” target=”_new” title=”Beyond Touch: A Futuristic Vision from Microsoft”>Video: Beyond Touch: A Futuristic Vision from Microsoft</a>
I do keep wondering if the future will be *so* squeaky clean though.. reminds me a little of gattaca.
