Transforming Grounds

My son Adam showed my this short video about the famous graphic designer Milton Glaser. Just watch it. Nothing more to say.

This is link to a great video made by two of our wonderful HCId students. Thanks Nina and Anna!!

[I am posting this on behalf of our program] Is your organization looking to recruit high-quality User Experience Designers? Did you know that the School of Informatics and Computing at IU has one of the top Master’s degree programs in the nation in Human-Computer Interaction Design? Please consider joining us for the 2nd annual HCI CONNECT. How do we describe this event: It’s a ‘day of interaction,’ or a ‘chance to experience talent,’ or a ‘relational on-ramp’ with some of the top students in the field. Visit www.hcidconnect.com for details, registration info, and pictures of last years event. Who is Invited User Experience Design Managers and Team Members - each organization may bring up to 3 people (We highly encourage attendance of HCI-Design Alumni) All the graduate students and faculty in the HCI-Design Program (About 75 students) Event Details January 21 & 22, 2010 21st: 7:00-9:00 pm: HCI Faculty, Student, and Employer Reception 22nd: 9:00 am - 3:00 pm: CONNECTing student

I was recently asked by a friend if I could make a short list of good readings on design thinking . I tried and here it is. This is a first attempt. The criteria for choosing a text has been if the reading has meant a lot to me. I have also picked texts that are not for the moment but are useful for many years (more or less timeless). So, this is a list of design thinking readings that I constantly use and go back to (I have probably forgotten some really important ones :-) Alexander, C. (1979). The Timeless Way of Building . Oxford University Press. Buchanan, R. Wicked Problems in Design Thinking. In The Idea of Design . V. Margolin and R. Buchanan (eds). MIT Press, 1995, 3-20. Buxton, B. (2007) Sketching User Experience – getting the design right and the right design . Morgan Kaufman. Cross, N. (2007). Designerly Ways of Knowing . Birkhauser, Basel. Dewey, J. (1934) Art as Experience . New York: Perigee Books. Dorst, C. H. (2003). Understanding Design . Amsterdam: BIS Pu