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
• citations design design research design theory Human-Centered Design Human-Computer Interaction reference management research scholarly communication writing

  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 a few students and colleagues say a variation of the following: I don’t know enough to start designing yet. I want to challenge this idea. I don’t think that there is some threshold of knowledge that must be passed before one can…

  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 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
• 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 — citation at the end of this post — is the way it distinguishes the different author contributions:   Sort of like the credits at the end of film/television shows, no? This is a model that…

  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
• design design research education HCI Human-Centered Design Instructional Design Instructional Technology methods Qualitative Inquiry Uncategorized

  Adobe Spark

  This is my first time experimenting with Adobe Spark, and I foresee making lots of one-minute explainer videos for my spring semester human-centered design course.

  October 9, 2018
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  Towards Good Collaboration

  This is a list of rules for collaboration from an expert on what doesn’t work: Be compassionate. If you’re in a design critique, for example, then you ought to be both critical and encouraging. Good critique should be encouraging. If you’re making someone less excited to work on their project…

  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