One thing you will find in abundance are libraries of interactions, often called widgets. Richie Hazlewood posted this link to the HCI distribution list earlier today, but it’s not the only one. The “components” that ship with Flash are another set, and information architect folks (e.g., Garrett) likewise have a standardized collection of interaction diagrams.…
Half of semester I feel the collision of phenomenology and my mind. When I tried to collect all the reading material, I found a strange phenomena that the papers I printed out have lot of underlined and notes. And they are still in my mind. But those of papers I read on computer screen…
So like Tyler, I’m cheating, and using my prewriting assignment for the assignment that I have to turn in for Erik’s class next week. So the concrete phenomena I have is raising Ezra & Micah. Of course I’m not alone in this, I expect that my wife is part of the design team, and doesn’t…
Dave’s Realism in HCI post reminded me of an experiment that I saw when I visited Bill Buxton’s Alias research lab a few years ago. Buxton has worked for years with the use of computers to sketch and visualize things in 3D, but he shares the concerns that Dave, et al, voice in that earlier…
You may have already seen this, but the summary of the interview is nice… note the emphasis on sketching. This of course reiterates what we read by Buxton earlier. (the full audio interview is also available via link on page) http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/05/31/a-conversation-with-bill-buxton-about-design-thinking/
On Tuesday, we mentioned the notion of needing flexible models of creativity, or any complex reality, in order to create designs with strong HCI foundations (I think). I decided to try to apply this to word processors. Before the age of word processors, most of our papers were written on plain sheets of ruled white…
While we were discussing our Dourish reading and the necessary and implicit philosophical assumptions that people make when they design tools, I re-remembered a quote by John Maeda that I’ve mentioned before. Maeda says that when we do design with tools, we live in other people’s dreams. The idea being that those tools were themselves…
Disclaimer, this was sitting in my unpublished drafts for at least a week or more. Sorry about that. OK so my title is alarmist and/or tabloidish, but honestly after listening to Jeff’s lectures this week, I am fairly convinced by his syllogistic logic. The tools used to create “amateur” media (and mainstream media too, but…
After reading the articles for this week (the first two, i couldn’t find the third.. is it up and I’m missing it?) , I was blown away by the explanation given of Heidegger’s theories in the Winograd & Flores article. It helped me make sense (I think) of many things… many ideas that were fluttering…
Read more “We design ourselves in language!” Selective attention rules.
In a conversation on thursday with Marty and Tim about practical uses of phenomenology as descriptive and prescriptive in HCI, it occurred to me that i’d recently used a phenomenological lens without realizing it. One of the biggest challenges we’ve had over the past 6 months in designing BigTreeTop.com was understanding the sometimes aligned, sometimes…
Interaction Culture 