Tag Archives: Critique
Facebook needs human-centered design
The most recent user uproar against Facebook and its increasingly cryptic privacy settings spurred the New York Times to collect questions from concerned users and posed them to Elliot Schrage, vice president for public policy at Facebook. He responded quite eloquently in this recent article, but unsurprisingly his words have done little to calm the [...]
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Critical Analysis Pre-Writing
In this post, I am attempting to make some sense of my argument for a paper I am planning to write. For this paper I am doing a critical analysis of World of Warcraft’s FigurePrints service. In making my thoughts and assumptions explicit, I have very strong opinions about how World of Warcraft favors certain [...]
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Phenomenological Reading of WoW Machinima
For my Interaction Culture class I decided to a close phenomological reading of a bit of machinima made from WoW clips set to the song “Here Without You” by 3 Doors Down. It has been an interesting journey. It is incredible to think that some clips from World of Warcraft set to a cheesy late [...]
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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 [...]
Interaction Culture Class
So this week I embarked upon a new journey in my HCI/d education in Indiana University’s Master’s program. The ship I am on is called Interaction Culture, and it is headed by Captain Jeffrey Bardzell. In this class we will look at how theories in the humanities, specifically aesthetics and critical theory can be applied [...]
Mac OS vs. Windows vs. Insert Favorite OS Here
After watching Bill Buxton’s talk about Microsoft starting to understand design better, I proceeded to view the comments, knowing full well what I would endure. It was pretty much the standard fare for any talk about technology when Microsoft’s name gets brought up: people missing the point and then valiantly defending their OS of choice [...]
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What We Don't Say About the Things We Love
I love my Mac. However it seems that because some products are loved so much, we don’t offer up the critique that they need in order to be even better. Contrary to popular belief, Macs are not perfect. The purpose of this post is to illuminate some often glossed-over issues with Apple based on my [...]
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.