Examples and Explanations of Design Criticism Writing Last week I posted Part 4 in my series on Interaction Criticism. Since then, I have read many more examples of design criticism, and so I want to expand on what I wrote in Part 4 with a bonus post. First, I’d like to revise something I wrote…
All, Here are a few of the resources that I mentioned in today’s class … Boxes and Arrows, a journal “devoted to the practice, innovation, and discussion of design”: http://www.boxesandarrows.com/ “Pencils Before Pixels: A primer in hand-generated sketching” – a great article from the current issues of Interactions: http://interactions.acm.org/content/?p=1081 (You’ll need to view after logging…
Last week, I conducted some user studies to learn about music libraries. One of the participants commented on how cool mix tapes were yet how rarely he creates playlists in iTunes. I started to wonder about the differences between old and new music media formats. In particular, I was interested in the differences between mix…
Read more mix tapes vs. digital playlists (mediation, meaningful objects and sign values)
In the wake of our discussion on Representation and Speculation approaches in HCI, I thought I would write a short post to pose a question. Granted that these categories aren’t exclusive, where do techniques such as personas and scenarios lie on this continuum? Personas are a common technique used in user-centered design and indeed do…
Interaction Culture 