Set of interviews I’d come across a while back and filed away. Maybe a little heady and systems theory-esque, it still looks like a broad, interesting mix of people. I’m reading the Lucy Suchman interview right now.
History Flow: visualizing dynamic, evolving documents and the interactions of multiple collaborating authors.
Focuses on document revisions in wikis over time. Excellent visualization work by Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viegas at IBM Research this summer.
1. Styleborg. Kerry is a good friend and HCI masters student at Carnegie Mellon. She’s into wearables, techno-textiles, and the like.
From Rob
2. Orange Cone. From Mike Kuniavsky, user researcher extraordinaire at Adaptive Path.
From Molly
Both should be quite good. It’s great to see new people take to weblogging – my family started a weblog, at Brad’s suggestion, and I have some other good designer friends I keep waiting on, who are far too smart to not share the love (ahem – Carl, David, Marc, Haven, Uday).
I’ve been trying not to pay too much attention to the whole Interaction Architects brouha that Mr. Tog has incited amongst the easily excitable. But it pulls me back in, and now I find myself linking to Beth’s reasonable recommendations regarding what to do about promoting this nascent profession of ours.
Ah, such navel-gazing. I always get a bit embarrassed when my non-design friends tell me they read this weblog – sorry friends, we’re a profession that likes to publicize our infighting. Move along, nothing to see here.
In a parallel life I’m a freshwater biologist, forever weblogging about my fascination with evolutionary stable strategies, particularly the mating system of one lepomis macrochirus, the bluegill sunfish. In another I’m a teacher, too busy for this silliness, and in yet another life I’m off in a band somewhere, completely and entirely oblivious about weblogging.
But in this strand of spacetime I’m now headed off to finish my slides for my final presentation to Big Blue tomorrow. School starts two weeks from today and my time here in Boston is just about up. Hopefully I’ll be able to talk about my summer here a bit more sometime later, once everything is finished.
Thank you Molly, you’re wonderful.
Interaction Architect Job Title Generator
My favorites so far: Observation Designer, User-friendly Manipulator, Coalescence Deviser, and Interaction Philosopher.