Alannah Oleson

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Beyond “Average” Users: Building Inclusive Design Skills with the CIDER Technique

In today’s connected world, everyone should be able to effectively interact with technology so they can access the benefits it provides…

Oct 5, 2022

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Oct 5, 2022

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Trip Report: EduCHI 2021

HCI+UX design educators have gotten pretty good at promoting collaboration and community in virtual spaces — no surprise.

May 16, 2021

A Miro virtual whiteboard divided into three columns for the three sessions at EduCHI 2021. It is too far zoomed out to read most of the text, but there are many sticky notes of various colors and different peoples’ cursors all over the place.

May 16, 2021

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Trip Report: 2020 Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion Workshop

Building community and brainstorming concrete ways to support D&I in software

Aug 19, 2020

Trip Report: 2020 Software Developer Diversity and Inclusion Workshop

Aug 19, 2020

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Seven tips to improve HCI education

Teaching software interface design is hard, but it doesn’t have to be

Jan 20, 2020

Jan 20, 2020

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Learning to think II: Designing the functional PhD student experience

Design has been on my brain lately. What is design? Where does it happen? How does it happen best? How can we teach others to design well…

May 19, 2019

Learning to think II: Designing the functional PhD student experience

May 19, 2019

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Community Building at the 2019 CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women

418 graduate women in computing learning the skills to change the world #GradCohort2019

Apr 13, 2019

Community Building at the 2019 CRA-W Grad Cohort for Women

Apr 13, 2019

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Two Days with Designers: IxDA Education Summit 2019

This week, Seattle welcomes the IxDA’s Interaction Week 2019, bringing together interaction design practitioners, researchers, and…

Feb 6, 2019

Two Days with Designers: IxDA Education Summit 2019

Feb 6, 2019

Learning to think: Becoming a functional PhD student

Last week marked the end of my first quarter at the University of Washington’s Information School. After ten weeks, I can confidently say…

Dec 20, 2018

Learning to think: Becoming a functional PhD student

Dec 20, 2018