brightly colored food

Case studies presented at CHI 2002. Especially noteworthy is the one presented by Cooper, which gives a fairly detailed view of their process in the context of a project they designed.

From InfoDesign

Just how far beyond HCI is interaction design?

In this Boxes and Arrows article, Jonas Löwgren makes some astute points about differences in approach between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and interaction design in light of a new textbook, “Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction”.

Looks like I’m heading off to grad school. I’ll be attending the Interaction Design program at Carnegie Mellon starting later this summer.

I’ve already met some amazing faculty, including Jodi Forlizzi, Marc Rettig, and Dan Boyarski (head of the program), and they’ve got me psyched about going (even if it is in Pittsburgh). I’ll be taking classes in both the Interaction Design program and the HCI program, which should mix things up a bit. I’ll be there for two years, then, who knows?

However, it does mean stepping back a bit from the day-to-day, pragmatic practice of user experience design (not too far back, though). Working at a company as large as Intuit has been a surprisingly enjoyable experience, primarily because of the emphasis given to user-centered design and by working with such a great team. Being a poor grad student in another city is going to be a bit of a change.

I’ll be leaving San Francisco in late May, taking time to travel before settling down in Pittsburgh. Drop me an email if you’re interested in user-experience-type positions at Intuit - I’m helping in the search for a replacement. And if you live in the Bay Area and need some new reading material, let me know - I have two shelves full of contemporary fiction that I’m looking to unload before leaving.

And poor Brightly Colored Food, just a year old today, and already it’s been pushed into a corner like an old toy (even with this new paint job and all). My guess is that things will continue to be sporadic around here for the next couple of months. Then, we’ll see….

Sorry it’s been so quiet around here - I’ve been up to no good…

Richard Anderson posted the program for the CHI2002|AIGA Experience Design Forum on the BayCHI Announcements Listserv, and it is a doozy - I am now officially regretting that I’m passing up the conference.

However, there are some lesser-known (to me) names on the program, and like anyone with Google as their home page, I did some searching…

John Rheinfrank Interviews Don Norman
A couple of years old. Norman talks about how he’s come to understand the importance of designers, how information appliances are the way to go, and what it was like making his CD-ROM.

John is actually the one who’s going to be at the forum, but it was a good interview, so I threw it in. He’s a Professor of Marketing at Kellogg (Northwestern), and was an author of a chapter in Bringing Design to Software. Sadly, his chapter isn’t online, unlike most of the others. But there are some PDFs on value chains and a “business innovation framework” from the ‘99 Advance for Design Forum.

Sonic Rim: Publications
Liz Sanders will be part of a panel on Research, Analysis, and Design.

Show and Tell: visual i/o [ppt]
Some beautiful webapp design and rumination on designing experience from Angela Shen-Hsieh.

A few of the other presenters:
Wendy Mackay
Ramana Rao
Nico Macdonald

Since I’m obviously a bit link-happy, here’s something else I just ran across:

Celebrities in Cognitive Science
“Writings by and about leading thinkers in cognitive science, and critics and observers of the philosophy of mind”. Come for the Laurel, Norman, Turkle, Winograd, and Lakoff; stay for the Schank, Piaget, Varela, Bruner, and others.