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Interaction Conference
Founded in 2008, the Interaction Design Association Conference brings together practitioners interested in all things around interaction design. Interaction 12 took place in Dublin, Ireland on 1–4 2012. Interactions 13 is set to take place in February 2013 in Toronto.
The Interaction ’11 Keynote Videos
February of this year saw the IxDA’s fourth Interaction conference, held in Boulder, Colorado. And a couple of months back, [...]
Interaction 11 Opening Keynote—Bill Verplank
The first of the videos from Interaction 11 are up. Here’s the opening keynote from Bill Verplank. Duration: just [...]
Interaction 11 report: day 3
Had you been paying attention? Bruce Sterling had, and wove together several strands of topics from the conference into his [...]
Interaction 11 report: day 2
After a day of talks and a night (or even two, depending on when you got in) of parties, day [...]
Interaction 11 report: day 1 – inside-out design innovations and design meets branding
After a morning of familiar discussions on classic IxD topics, the afternoon sessions broadened the discourse to include a new [...]
Interaction 11 report: day 1 overview
It is that time of the year again: hundreds of interaction designers from all over the world rush towards the [...]
An interview with Bill Verplank
Back in the late 1980s, Bill Verplank, when working at what would become IDEO, stopped calling what he did ‘user-interface [...]
Robots, Farms & Co-Design: The growBot Garden Project
One of the valuable things academic design research can do is to take on projects that would be impossible within [...]
Why Stories Work as Design Tools
Humans have a natural affinity for stories. We know this intuitively. When we’re trying to teach a child important lessons about ethics,[...]