Category Archive: HCI

27 Oct

Uncanny Valley and UX Design

Uncanny Valley and UX Design

Or, how to keep from creating a creepy experience for your audience I came across the phrase “Uncanny Valley” for the first time at South by …

 
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27 Sep

Trust and Design

Trust and Design

Trust and design. I’ve been chewing on that for the past few months. Since we started the contextual inquiry for our CHI project, actually. I’ve …

 
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17 Sep

FIELD TRIP! Hamilton Wood Type Museum

FIELD TRIP! Hamilton Wood Type Museum

photo courtesy of erin borreson Question: what do interaction designers in the automotive industry do for fun? Answer: pile into a coupe and drive 8 hours …

 
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22 Feb

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 …

 
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05 Jan

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) …

 
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08 Nov

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 …

 
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18 Sep

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 …

 
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28 Aug

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 the  MIT Media Lab. The …

 
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23 Jul

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 …

 
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24 May

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, …

 
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