On gangsters, mental models, and beautiful interactions.
To create beautiful interactions, maybe interaction designers should learn ASL and make friends with gangsters. In Losing the Language of
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
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
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
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
Time and aesthetics.
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the eye of the beholder has a biological preference based
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
Urban interaction.
In my ongoing thinking about the city as an interface – as an operating system, if you will, of this thing