Interaction & Service Design Concepts: Principles, Perspectives & Practices

This is Interaction Design, Reconsidered

As seen from the last day of the first semester of a Masters in Interaction Design

*This is in response to an earlier post defining interaction design*

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 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.

Molly had asked us to write about what we think Interaction Design is now, that we are a semester in.

I think my viewpoints are very similar to what they were when first starting at CMU.

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…

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.

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…

A (wobbly) new 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…

Thoughts on interaction design

One of the reasons I wanted to study interaction design was to create a better experience that can solve a problem, create beneficial values to the people. During the semester, I’ve been keep asking myself how I can combine the experience that I had as an art director and…

Surveilling Our Own Data

Fears over data collection have generally centered around losing control of our data. What becomes of our reconstituted digital selves when they are amassed and peered over by marketers, governments, or ill-willing third (or, second) parties? An unending circular game of cat and mouse…

Avoiding Surveillance Through Analog Technologies

These readings got me thinking about the military and the various ways technologies and data can creating vulnerabilities in a country’s security networks. If every military group is using digital technologies for surveillance, communication…