Category Archives: Interaction Design
CHI 2014: Panel – Design Methods for the Future, Which is Now
Karen Holtzblatt, InContext Design; Ilpo Koskinen, Aalto University; Janaki Kumar, SAP Labs; David Rondeau, InContext Design; John Zimmerman, Carnegie Mellon University Karen: we believe the methods need to change for today's world review Contextual Design briefly; worked for 25 years, … Continue reading
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CHI 2014: Panel – Design Methods for the Future, Which is Now
Karen Holtzblatt, InContext Design; Ilpo Koskinen, Aalto University; Janaki Kumar, SAP Labs; David Rondeau, InContext Design; John Zimmerman, Carnegie Mellon University Karen: we believe the methods need to change for today's world review Contextual Design briefly; worked for 25 years, … Continue reading
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CHI 2014: Opening Keynote – Margaret Atwood
“Robotics in My Work and Life” In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination, 2011 nothing more uncanny than the almost human we make real things we've already imagined; if we can't imagine it we'll never make it we make … Continue reading
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CHI 2014: It’s Been Too Long
In 1996, I attended this conference called CHI. It was the annual gathering for the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. It was amazing. My skull was cracked open and new worlds were poured into my brain. The plenary … Continue reading
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Weaning Myself of Google
While I don’t use Apple’s built in Mail app in Mavericks, I read about all the problems it has with Gmail (and IMAP in general). I read a couple of articles that recommended moving away from Gmail to FastMail. A … Continue reading
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Usability Woes: Maryland Health Connection
I’ve been hearing about all the technical problems on health exchanges since they launched on Oct 1. I was curious, especially because I live in Maryland- which is way ahead of the game and providing an example to other states. … Continue reading
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Raw Notes from 30th Annual HCIL Symposium
I attended the 30th Annual HCIL Symposium on Wednesday and Thursday. Unfortunately, I missed a few of the sessions because of work responsibilities, but I’ve included my raw notes below. I don’t have time to do all the linking and … Continue reading
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Notes from Washington Area CTO Summit
The Washington Area CTO Roundtable held their bi-annual Summit last night. BoxTone was a sponsor, and Alan, our CEO, invited me along because the topic was recent research in Human Computer Interaction. It was a nice event with about 120 attendees … Continue reading
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IA Summit First-Time Dinners (or a Baseball Game)
If you are attending IA Summit for the first time, sign up for one of the dinners on Saturday night, or join me at an Orioles/Twins baseball game. Sign up here.
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iCloud TextEdit: Poor Man’s Cloud Storage?
After installing OS X Mountain Lion yesterday, I played with its new features a bit. Many nice refinements, but I was most intrigued by the iCloud integration. Each iCloud enabled app has its own iCloud storage sandbox. In playing with … Continue reading
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