Category: art

• art design design methods design research discourse education Instructional Design sketching

  sketching discourse

  I’m tinkering with metaphors to explain/teach discourse analysis to an undergrad human-centered design class. One way to explain it might be in terms of an iceberg. Discourse is sort of like an iceberg in the sense that there is a lot going on beneath the surface that we don’t see…

  December 21, 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 literature on devices that aren’t mine. (3) Manual entry of new literature is sort of a pain on a mobile device. I want to be able to…

  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 written text (academic papers) and visual content (images of designs, photos, paintings). So, why not account for the latter in reference lists? 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
• art design design research design theory learning learning outcomes pedagogy research Uncategorized

  Sharing Ideas and Failing Up

  If I had to identify one thing I do well in the classroom, it’s this: I create an environment where it’s the norm to take risks, fail, and explore half-baked ideas. My guess is that I model all three of these things. I fail up pretty much all the time,…

  July 8, 2017
• art design Interaction Design Uncategorized

  Lumio

  My wife (and daughter) gifted me a Lumio last week. I love it. It’s beautiful and fun. It sits on my desk next to my laptop and I find myself reaching for it several times a day. Each time I open it up, I pay attention to different details: the…

  June 23, 2017
• art design design research HCI hci research HCI/d Human-Computer Interaction knowledge production knowledge tools Uncategorized

  IASDR 2017

  Some additional good news to report. I submitted an abstract for a short paper to the upcoming IASDR conference in Cincinnati about some early-stage research that I’m working on with Erik Stolterman, and the abstract has been accepted! So now we’re writing the short paper and creating a poster to…

  June 19, 2017