Posts tagged as:

interaction design

The Essence of Interaction Design Research: A Call for Consistency
This post is reproduced from the original Interactions magazine article
It started with an innocent query to the IxDA listserv. Someone was sure they had read an article in Interactions magazine once but could not find it again: Wasn’t there something written sometime by someone about something [...]

4 comments

Categories: Blog · Research Methods · culture · design · home · interaction design · management · organizations · personas · qualitative research · quantitative research · sample size

My article on understanding organizational culture is now up on the interaction design site, Johnny Holland. The post provides an overview of key factors in organizational culture and how these factors affect an organization’s culture. It’s specifically intended to help designers understand their clients’ business culture and to avoid the all-too-common trap of “missing the [...]

0 comments

Categories: anthropology · culture · facebook · interaction design · product design · qualitative research · sociology · technology design

Hugh Dubberly and Paul Pangaro had a great post on Interactions magazine about designing for conversations. They propose to use how a conversation actually works to make interactions better. They rely heavily on Claude Shannon’s conversation model to help guide the conceptual model of interaction designs.
In Shannon’s model an information source selects a message [...]

2 comments

Categories: design · discourse analysis · ethnography · qualitative research · technology design

Design thinking’s big problem

by Sam Ladner on March 4, 2009 · 56 comments

in Blog, Popular

So-called “design thinking” is the new It-Girl of management theory. It purports to provide new ways for managers and companies to provide innovative, creative solutions to old problems. But design thinking alone will not solve these problems because a lack of creativity was never the issue.
The real issue is one of power.
Design is attractive to [...]

56 comments

Categories: Blog · Popular

The digital availability of social information has lead many to think it’s a crisis of privacy. It is not; it is a crisis of identity management. Designers of online profiles should think about privacy as the management of identity, which can be an easily damaged piece of social information. Users who can control access to [...]

5 comments

Categories: goffman · product design · social media

Blog
design
qualitative research
product design
Services
Research design
Ethnography
In-depth Interviewing
Usability testing
Projects
Consumer Electronics
High technology
Health Care