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Connections: From Technological Innovations To Social Change
Do you know the story of the stirrup? The stirrup was introduced to horsemanship alternately by the Central Asians, Chinese, [...]
Seductive Design—Andy Budd
Andy Budd (Clearleft) talking about seductive design at the Build Conference. Duration: 41 minutes
Dark Patterns: User Interfaces Designed to Trick People—Harry Brignull
We’re trying something a bit different here on Johnny TV—in addition the the videos that you know and love, we’re [...]
The Like as interest and social gesture
I have been meaning to write about Likes and users interests for quite some time. But the matter is complicated. [...]
Designing alarms and alerts
Is your design resistant to failure? If a worst case occurs, can the user recover and regain trust in your [...]
Ethnography as a Cultural Practice—Steve Portigal
Steve Portigal discusses “the use of ethnographic research in the product development process and suggest how an understanding of culture[...]
The Hands vs. the Brains
What’s the difference between contracting and consulting? One major difference comes down to whether the job is handwork or brainwork.[...]
Natural Interactions with Digital Content—David Merrill
David Merrill (Sifteo, then at MIT Media Lab) talks about using Siftables to interact with digital content (Stanford HCI Seminar [...]
Mobile Diaries: discovering daily life
“To design is to have a ‘project’. Getting the design process moving is to expose and transform this ‘project’ in [...]