InContext at 20

20 years is a long time in the world of technology. When Karen started her initial work in Human-Computer Interaction, the interaction we were talking about was English-language command lines for the EVE editor at Digital Equipment Corporation. Most software at the...

The Post-Apple World

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last few weeks, you’ve already heard about the verdict in the technology Trial of the Century, pitting Apple against Samsung in a battle over who violated whose intellectual property. The blogosphere is abuzz with what...

A Tale of Two Conferences

I’ve attended two conferences in the last three weeks—Jared Spool’s UX Immersions conference, and CHI 2012, the primary computer-human interaction conference. UX Immersions was the smaller conference, focusing this year on the Agile/UX interface and on design for...

Webinar: Innovation in Cool

Can you intentionally design a product that is cool? What makes products Cool? How can teams design for Cool? What mysterious forces need to align in order to create the most innovative products on the planet? To find out, we immersed ourselves in the experiences of...