Carnegie Mellon

Interaction Design defined

Interaction design is a series of actions and reactions

Interaction design (IxD) is the art of pairing the appropriate outcome(s) to a given input or inputs. The…

09/01/18 | Learning from Architecture & Tech

Reflection

The three pieces we read centered around how humans build or make new environments or objects that influences the way we see and interact with the world. Being never satisfied we continually customize our…

9/8/2018 | Affordances

Defining and finding affordances in the world

9/14/18 | Scale

Problems and possibilities at scale

Reading Reflection

What are the implications of digital design decisions at a massive scale — millions, if not billions of people? What possibilities are there for humanitarian…

Seminar One: Plans and Situated Actions

Mars rovers, copy machines, beep boop, beep beep

10/29/18 | Data collection and Algorithmic bias

Oppression or Opportunity

11/11/18 | Values and Ethics

How values and ethics inform design

Reflection

In my opinion values and ethics should act as a framework or “data input” which informs design decsions. Similar to how design briefs or product…

11/19/18 | Class publication ideas

Designing a narrative on design

What should we write about for our final class publication? What would you like to investigate and share with the world? Write a post and we will share it. Feel free to explor the specific…

11/26/18 | Speculative & Critical Design

My first exploration into critical design

Try your hand at a brief speculative fiction or small critical design project about a near future object.

What is interaction design?

Interaction designers as facilitators of relationships