Week 04: Is design essentially idealistic and neglectful of reality?

Prompt: The readings argue that design focuses too much on processes and not enough on outcomes, and is essentially idealistic and neglectful of the messiness of reality. Do you agree or disagree with this…

Week 03: Affordance

Task: Define what an affordance is. Then find a specific affordance and write about it in great detail.

Week 01: Who am I?

I am monotone, but dreamful.

Monotone — calm, quiet, and simple

Week 10: Different Cliché for AI

Task: Design a different cliché for AI. What would happen if you used a totally different palette? No…

Week 15: What is interaction design?

Task: What is interaction design? Have you changed your mind and if so, how? Or do you find that you still agree with what you wrote at the beginning of the semester? How would you define it and what do you think designers be thinking about when they think about…

Paper I: The Role of Designer

Task: Make an argument for the role of the designer — and what its boundaries are. Where does it stop? If…

Week 09: AI as material for Design

Task: Articles this week deal with the idea of artificial intelligence (and its related methods and approaches) as material for design and UX. What does that mean, exactly — AI as material for design? What might you draw from the Cardoso Llach & Steenson readings…

Week 02: Autonomous Car, A Movable Space

Task: Choose one (or more) models to think through how a person might relate to something…

Week 13: Ideas for Final Publication

Task: What should we write about for our final publication? What would you like to investigate and share with the world? Write a Medium post and we will share it in class. You can be specific (I want to write about X, Y, and Z…) or broad (what if we framed it like…

Week 06: Plans, situated actions, and seams

Task: Lucy Suchman distinguishes between plans and situated actions. In your post, first note that distinction — define both. How does it play out in Vertesi’s characterization of “seamfulness” in the work of NASA’s scientists? And how do you see plans…