Interaction & Service Design Concepts: Principles, Perspectives & Practices

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…

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…

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…

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…

What is interaction design

At the beginning of the semester, I wrote about what I thought interaction design was. I hovered around a definition of making things better and noted that “better” was an ever changing idea.

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.

What is Interaction Design…A Renewed Perspective

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…

Designing with data while dreading it

The question of surveillance and data mining is a tough one. On one hand, it seems obviously unethical and unlawful and in complete disregard for civil liberties. On the other, perhaps more practical hand, acts of terrorism are devastating and it is the role of…

The Pitfalls of Collecting Data

A large portion of my projects are related to emotion. I feel that the sensing and using of emotion related information is the next large step technology will take. This information can be used to create technology that has a more subtle understanding of when to assert its…