Tag Archives: Discussion
“Play Money” and RMT is why I will never play MMORPGs again.
I just got finished reading Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot by Julian Dibbell, and I must say that no book in recent memory has riled me up so much. Don’t get me wrong – I am not angry because I am naive about virtual worlds [...]
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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Random stuff I found on Sticky Notes
I recently went through a bunch of notes I found on my computer. All of them look to be the beginnings of blog posts, but I thought it would might be fun to throw them all together in one blog post and expand up on them later. (And then I can delete them from my [...]
Posted in Design, Human-Centered, Opinion, Reflection Also tagged Co-Design, Design, Design Thinking, Human-Centered, Ideas, Reflections Leave a comment
How do you improve or update your knowledge on user experience design?
Someone asked that question on LinkedIn in the User Experience group. The author of the question also went on to say: “Some people read books, some write or share their experience or thoughts on blogs or by simply reading some famous author’s blogs to upgrade their knowledge. Share your most preferred blogs or books to [...]
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No Google, I don’t need advice on pregnancy.
I just got done reading an article from Google’s Official GMail Blog, entitled Serving Better Ads in Gmail. Scott Crossan, the GMail Product Manager, stated that GMail will now provide advertisements based on past emails if the current email doesn’t provide a good enough match. They are doing this in the spirit of giving you [...]
HCI Discussion Group
I, along with my classmate Thalith Nasir, have started a discussion group at school and it is going quite well. We meet every other week for about an hour and a half to discuss a variety of topics related to HCI. In a interdisciplinary field like HCI, if you look hard enough you can always [...]
People are not to blame for bad privacy decisions