Category: design research

• design research design theory HCI hci research HCI/d Human-Centered Design Human-Computer Interaction User experience UX

  conversations for vision

  Another new pre-print dropped this week. This paper is a first draft of our findings from an interview study conducted with a fascinating group of practitioners who work to support people with visual impairments (PVI). Here’s how the service works: PVI connect with a remote sighted assistant via a mobile…

  December 6, 2018
• course development critique design design research design theory design thinking education Human-Centered Design information design Instructional Design learning objectives learning outcomes User experience UX

  Typography Class

  I’m going to be teaching a class on typography next week, and here’s how I’m planning the class: after a brief recap of the assigned readings for the day, we’ll do an informal critique exercise in which we look at different examples of typography whose meaning seems to conflict with…

  December 6, 2018
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  New(ish) Preprints

  I’ve added new preprints in the past few days for the following papers. Enjoy! Designing has no given problems, no given processes, and no given solutions. Jordan Beck, Erik Stolterman (https://osf.io/dz9xr/) A Study of Citation Motivations in HCI Research. Jordan Beck, Bikalpa Neupane, John M. Carroll (https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/me8zd/) Managing Conflict in…

  November 5, 2018
• design design research design theory design thinking HCI/d Human-Centered Design information design Interaction Design knowledge production knowledge tools learning research Understanding by Design

  you can always start designing

  Over the past few days, I have heard students and colleagues say a variation of the following: I don’t know enough to start designing yet. I don’t think that there is a threshold of knowledge that must be passed before one can start designing. If I’ve got an idea, I…

  October 23, 2018
• art design design research HCI hci research HCI/d Human-Centered Design Human-Computer Interaction information design reference management research scholarly communication Uncategorized

  image-based reference management

  Here are some true statements. (1) Some of my colleagues share paper copies of interesting, relevant research with me. (2) I find new papers on devices that aren’t mine. (3) Manual entry of metadata is sort of a pain on a mobile device. I want to be able to quickly…

  October 22, 2018
• citations design design research HCI Human-Centered Design Human-Computer Interaction information design research scholarly communication writing

  designing authorship

  One of the coolest things about the PLOS paper I was reading this morning is the way it distinguishes author contributions:   It reminds me of credits at the end of a movie. This is a model that other venues ought to adopt. Personally, I’d love to see something like…

  October 22, 2018
• art design design research design thinking HCI Human-Centered Design research scholarly communication sketching Uncategorized

  from bibliographies to iconographies

  Research through Design (RtD) can be influenced by academic papers and visual content (images of designs, photos, paintings). So, why do we only account for one (papers) when citing sources? Communicating RtD publications could mix bibliographies with iconographies, which would give image-based influences their due credit. Some sketch-proposals (made w/Adobe…

  October 18, 2018
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  towards good collaboration

  This is a list of principles for collaboration from an expert on what doesn’t work: Be compassionate. If you’re in a design critique, be critical and encouraging. Good critique should be encouraging. It’s not helpful to diminish someone’s excitement to work on their project. Be helpful. I’ve been in too…

  August 7, 2018
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  theory-practice gap

  Watch this video of a talk I gave at CHI2018 on the theory-practice gap:    

  August 6, 2018
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  DRS2018 Best Paper Award

  Download/read the paper here.

  July 13, 2018