Category Archive: HCI

Night Beacon

Night Beacon

Update: Night Beacon is the winner of the 2010 CHI Student Design Competition. Night Beacon is a project developed during my Interaction Design course as part …

 

Re-imagining to Curate

Re-imagining to Curate

Starting this month, I am going to be re-designing some websites for the organization I’ve been working with for about a year now. Re-imagining the site(s) …

 

Affordances!

Affordances!

Game Boy Classic The past few weeks I’ve been getting an education in affordances. This is not to be confused with having Norman’s Design of Everyday …

 

Mozilla Labs University Design Challenge: Clothing/Closet Metaphor

Mozilla Labs University Design Challenge: Clothing/Closet Metaphor

Tonight was the U-M SOCHI kickoff for the Mozilla Labs University Design Challenge, a challenge wherein Mozilla encourages students to innovate and experiment in user …

 

Personas: Good Man, Bad Man, Funnyman, Chick

Personas: Good Man, Bad Man, Funnyman, Chick

Personas by Aaron Zinman is an online component of the Metropath(ologies) exhibit put on by the Sociable Media Group at theĀ  MIT Media Lab. The …

 

I love Netflix, but…

I love Netflix, but…

I think Netflix has a really good user interface. I even sang its praises in a short paper I wrote for my Fundamentals of Human …

 

Oh, and did I mention Information Visualization?

Oh, and did I mention Information Visualization?

Last semester I took a course in InfoVis with an interesting bunch of folks who produced an impressive set of projects. My classmate, Katie McCurdy, …