Karen at two events in Seattle

Karen will be in Seattle the week of September 15 to attend Automotive UI, the International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications. If you’re attending the conference, be sure to look for Karen—Karen and her hat always stands...

Karen coming to the Twin Cities

We’re excited to report that Karen will be in the Minneapolis/St Paul area. On September 29th she’ll be conducting a 1-day workshop sponsored by UXPA Minnesota that covers the Contextual Design techniques that bridge the collection and analysis of user data to design....

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...

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...

Announcing Interactions Article: What Makes Things Cool?

I’m pleased to announce my article on “What Makes Things Cool?” has just been published in the November issue of Interactions. See the front cover of your copy of Interactions or buy a copy of the PDF here. Any time that a new platform emerges, it calls for new design...