“… the creative person who thinks politically and is familiar with modern methods, and who with social responsibility and his own creative talents designs the lifestyles of our technological and industrial age.”
Inge Scholl, 8 May, 1950
The view behind the foreground. The political history of the Ulm School of Design (1953-1968)«. Stuttgart 2002.
Photo: Hannes Rosenberg: Inge [...]
Category Archives: phd
A college whose goal is
September 8 09
Design at the threshold
August 23 09
At our recent ixda board retreat (caveat – I’m an IxDA Director) there was overwhelming agreement that we (the org, network, & field) were at a tipping point. Technological culture has extended to affect so much of our experience*, and it’s clear that Design is going to play a pivotal role in helping us thrive [...]
making it up as we go along
May 28 09
I believe that interaction design (and by extension, service design) is an emerging practice.
Designers who do this kind of stuff are making a lot of it up as they go along. They’re inventing new methods, creating hybrids of “best practices”, testing the effectiveness of their existing methods, and (thankfully) sharing their discoveries with the wider [...]
so what’s the real reason?
May 21 09
had a small breakthrough today on the PhD: when asked to write for 10 minutes non stop in a ‘how to get yourself started’ workshop.
I discovered that I’ve never really stated that I want to approach this PhD as a design problem, looking at education and other things (like IxDA) as a service.
so
if IxDA, education [...]
Phd proposal update
May 19 09
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 [...]
PhD poster and abstract
May 12 09
Designing Interaction Design
PhD (Communication Design)
This research explores the rapidly forming field of Interaction Design, and seeks to answer the following questions:
what qualities and capacities do interaction designers deem essential to their practice?
how can this knowledge inform academic and professional roles in the development of this emerging field?
more on the AP brownbag
November 23 08
Jamin Hegeman has posted about my brown bag presentation at Adaptive Path last month… This reminds me I should get back in touch with Jamin about CMU for the education snapshot we’re doing for IxDA.
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 [...]
IxD Courses
November 6 08
I’m playing with DabbleDB as a platform to collect information on Interaction Design courses and programs throughout the world. The aim is to keep this globally accessible and crowdsource the content.
Look after the jump for a map and listing of the current database.
