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Interaction Design History

IXD History Wrap Up

Posted on 08/11/2021 by erin

References and Videos plus my next project I hope you enjoyed the intro lectures I shared from my Interaction Design History class I taught this past fall (2020...

Interaction Design History

IXD Futures: AI & machine learning, AR & VR, speculative design & futures—intro lecture 15

Posted on 08/10/2021 by erin

Alternative ways of thinking about interactive experiences & speculating on the future We are finally into the future — and this week we read about Artifici...

Interaction Design History

Information Age: voice, design systems, mobile and IoT—intro lecture 14

Posted on 08/09/2021 by erin

We bring ourselves into the present and we contemplate ethics questions after watching contemporary science fiction clips. This week we will look at the rise an...

Interaction Design History

Information Age: The dot com boom and bust, rise of e-commerce & social platforms, accessible to universal—intro lecture 13

Posted on 08/08/2021 by erin

I share screenshots of my first website and we all laughed at how primitive it was This week we are going to ride the dot com boom and bust as the internet beco...

Interaction Design History

Information Age: Information Architecture & Richard Saul Wurman, — intro lecture 12

Posted on 08/07/2021 by erin

Where I let others tell you the details on the history of IA and we think about IA in the context of IXD This week we are going to deep dive into Information Ar...

Interaction Design History

Computer Age: AOL the first internet giant — Girl Games with Brenda Laurel—intro lecture 11

Posted on 08/06/2021 by erin

Maligned AOL and research into gender differences in games In the 80’s, on the east coast, another community was created by Steve Case. AOL started as a BBS and...

Interaction Design History

Computer Age: The World Wide Web, The Browser, Early Communities (The Well, BBSes, Usenet) — intro lecture 10

Posted on 08/05/2021 by erin

Where Interaction Design History and my personal history as a designer begin to overlap Once folks start having computers in their homes, they want to do more t...

Interaction Design History

Computer Age: Early personal computers & games — intro lecture 9

Posted on 08/04/2021 by erin

Finally we are going to talk about early personal computing and computer games. This is the beginning of what we are more familiar with compared to what we have...

Interaction Design History

Computer Age: Christopher Alexander, Muriel Cooper and Architecting Space — intro lecture 8

Posted on 08/03/2021 by erin

The week we learn how architecture in the physical world can teach us about designing in the digital world. And about design patterns. This week we’re going to ...

Interaction Design History

Silicon Age: Visioning the future & the beginnings of Interaction Design as a practice — intro lecture 7

Posted on 08/02/2021 by erin

We finally start to hear about the origins of Interaction Design as a distinct practice. It still doesn’t have the official name yet but Bill Verplank, talks ab...

Interaction Design History

Silicon Age: The Mother of All Demos — and my how the world changed — intro lecture 6 from my Interaction Design History course

Posted on 08/01/2021 by erin

This is a short intro as the content of the videos covers everything needed to think about in this section. So far in our journey we’ve seen the evolution of sy...

Interaction Design History

Industrial Age: Mid-Century Designers, Designing For People —intro lecture 5 from my Interaction Design History course

Posted on 07/29/2021 by erin

When designers designed across disciplines and brought learnings from one discipline to another After WWII the U.S. enters a time of incredible innovation and e...

Interaction Design History

Industrial Age: Between the Wars & The Memex — intro lecture 4 from my Interaction Design History course

Posted on 07/24/2021 by erin

The Bauhaus spreads to America. Diving into the concept of hypertext with the Memex and how WW2 gave us human factors engineering and Fitt’s Law Between World W...

Interaction Design History

Industrial Age: The Industrial Revolution & Manifestos — intro lecture 3 from History of Interaction Design

Posted on 07/22/2021 by erin

The Machine Revolutionizes the World and our field begins to find sparks The industrial revolution starts around 1760 and lasts nearly 100 years. By the 1800’s ...

Interaction Design History

In the beginning—part 2—The Renaissance & Moveable Type- lecture 2 from Interaction Design History

Posted on 07/16/2021 by erin

Where we learn that moveable type & paper making came to the west from China first & Da Vinci had his hands in everything Around 1040 AD moveable wood t...

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The subject of my newsletter #2 was Mabel Addis, a school teacher who was enlisted to work with IBM to develop narrative educational computer games in the mid 1960's.
I just published her story on the website: https://womenofixd.com/mabel-addis#womenofixd #ixddesignhistory
Newsletter #3 will come out Monday. Signup on the homepage.

26 January 2023 @ 7:37 pm

Newsletter authors: Do you post your newsletter to your website? As is or reformatted? How soon from sending out as an email do you publish on your site (if you do)? I'm trying to find the right cadence of newsletter to site posting and value to subscribers. Any advice appreciated.

17 January 2023 @ 5:28 am

The second edition newsletter went out today. Women of IXD: Deep Cuts #2 - Mabel Addis & the first interactive computer game - https://mailchi.mp/0c47ba3faaa8/women-of-ixd-deep-cuts-2-mabel-addis-the-first-interactive-computer-game #womenofixd #ixddesignhistory #computergamedesignhistory

16 January 2023 @ 11:48 pm

I've just published the profile on Ángela Ruiz Robles to my website. This was my first Deep Cuts newsletter. Coming bi-monthly to your email and then later to the website. https://womenofixd.com/angela-ruiz-robles

16 January 2023 @ 6:50 pm

I started sending out my Women of IXD: Deep Cuts newsletter this week with a piece about Ángela Ruiz Robles. Bi-monthly newsletter containing the stories and profiles of the women in the field I had to cut from the book due to word-count constraints and narrative flow.
You can subscribe at the bottom of the homepage at Women of IXD - https://womenofixd.com/ - and get the stories in your inbox.
#womenofixd #womendesigners #hiddenhistories #loststories

4 January 2023 @ 11:45 pm

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