Category Archives: Readings
Capstone Theoretical Stuff
Design is a balancing act, and one of the things I find merit in tossing into it is a strong understanding of theory and literature. It helps to recognize and acknowledge your values in the design process so that they can be made explicit to yourself and all other stakeholders. That being said, I now [...]
My Thoughts on “Thoughts on Thoughts on Interaction Design”
J. Ambrose Little just posted recently about reading Jon Kolko’s Thoughts on Interaction Design. While I am new to this whole design thing, I have previously posted about my uneasiness with the claim that we design behavior.
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Interpreting Interaction Design
As I was reading Verbalising the Visual, I came across a passage that seemed to set of a big, fun, messy string of thoughts about the ways things are interpreted. Clarke states: It is sometimes thought that interpreting images of functional artefacts, such as a food processor or digital camera, is easier than interpreting works [...]
Literature, Film, and HCI
After reading this paper, Interaction Criticism: A Proposal and Framework for a New Discipline of HCI by Jeff and Shaowen Bardzell, I came away with several insights to add to my personal design philosophy. In the paper the authors claim that the HCI design process is missing an integral final step, the step of interaction [...]
“Play Money” and RMT is why I will never play MMORPGs again.