interaction design

12
Jun
Rhetorical appeals in interaction design.

Rhetorical appeals in interaction design.

Once you start looking for connections, connections spontaneously pop up to say hello. For my presentation last week in Boulder
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12
Jun
I am an instrument. Stroke me.

I am an instrument. Stroke me.

Alex Ross ruminates on the differences between live and studio recordings in his New Yorker article, The Record Effect: In
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12
Jun
Dogs as users and humans as iPhones.

Dogs as users and humans as iPhones.

They say that intelligence can be measured by a species’ ability to use tools to accomplish goals. Alexandra Horowitz, in
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12
Jun
On dogs, R2D2, C3PO, + beautiful interactions.

On dogs, R2D2, C3PO, + beautiful interactions.

Beauty is mathematics. Beauty is objective. Or subjective if you insist, but only within a range of mathematical objectiveness. But
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12
Jun
Beauty is like phyllo dough.

Beauty is like phyllo dough.

In researching the aesthetics of interaction design, I’m at the part where I’m trying to articulate what makes
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12
Jun
Time and aesthetics.

Time and aesthetics.

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the eye of the beholder has a biological preference based
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12
Jun

Thoughts on the beauty of interaction design.

I finished Sam Shepard's latest book this weekend and started Consequential Strangers this morning before getting out of
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12
Jun

How bad design turned my plane around.

Let me tell you a little story about a Blackberry, bad design, a deaf man, and an airplane. I was
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12
Jun

Urban interaction.

In my ongoing thinking about the city as an interface – as an operating system, if you will, of this thing
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12
Jun

Interaction design + urban planning.

The semester is humming nicely along. I have an incredible group of about nine grad students in my Visualizing Information
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