Re-defining Interaction Design and How it’s Changing My Life (and yours, too!)

Reflections on first semester of grad school, being a Designer, and FOMO.

5 Lessons I’ve Learned About Design and Interaction Design

Semester Reflections for CMU IxD Seminar, Fall 2015

Over the semester, through seminar, studio, and lab, we have done, tried out, and learned about a lot of things. Amongst many things I’ve learned is…

What was Interaction Design Interaction design is about managing the behaviour of entities (human or digital) to create a more conducive relationship between them within a system.

What is Interaction Design?

Interaction design is the orchestration of environments, technologies, services to make it…

Reflection

Even after completing the M.A. in Design program at CMU, I still felt like an anthropologist masquerading in the world of the designer, observing how they behave and participating in their activities. By mimicking their methods and incorporating their ideologies into my repertoire, I feel like I could pass…

What is Interaction Design…A Renewed Perspective

What is Interaction Design?

As I progressed through the semester, I was learning about things in IxD Seminar that I was not expecting. Artificial intelligence? Objects with politics? Cybernetics? Value sensitive design? These are all topics that I would not have guessed would be part of an interaction…

A stake in the ground

Thoughts on interaction design, revisited.

I started off this semester, by defining interaction design as

the process of identifying a problem and understanding the context it exists in, simplifying the…

Thoughts on interaction design

How has my view on interaction design changed after the 1st semester at CMU?

In one of the earlier posts for the seminar class, my peers and I were asked to write about our own definition of interaction design. In the previous post, I’ve written that…