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Human-Computer Interaction (or Computer-Human Interaction, the two are terms are effectively interchangeable) is the academic discipline that studies how people interact with computers. It builds on and complements parts of two other academic disciplines:
Most of the academic work in UI Design is done under the label of HCI, and one of its professional organizations -- ACM SIGCHI -- is probably the most influential forum on user interface design. Many professionals in UI Design, however, have degrees in Cognitive Psychology and Human Factors. A number of HCI specialists focus on interaction design. This perspective is of particular importance on this site. I like the explanation of what this means by Theodor Holm Nelson (Laurel, 1990, p. 243): Leaning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch-type has to do with writing poetry. The design of interactivity is scarcely taught in programming school. What we need in software is what people are taught in film school, at least to whatever degree it can be taught. Designing for the little screen on the desktop has the most in common with designing for the Big Screen. What's the difference between interaction design and user interface design? There's no firm consensus on boundaries in the industry, but consider this clarification from Cooper Software Design's description of their services: Interaction design answers the question "how should this product work?" It tells us how the elements of the product work together in order to both make its functioning clear and enable the user to undertake her most important tasks easily. Interface design answers the question "how should this product present itself?" It tells us how the product should look in order maximize readability for the user, and includes the aesthetics of the product.
Interaction design seems to me to have enormous applicability in information design, too. Please see the introduction to
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| ACM SigChi Home Page | ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction) "brings together people working on the design, evaluation, implementation, and study of interactive computing systems for human use." Interactions is their excellent bi-monthly magazine for designers of interactive products. The SIGCHI bulletin also contains valuable information. Their bibliography is huge. (Posted 5/97, Link updated 1/05) |
| Interaction Design Association | "An international community of people who are practicing, teaching, and studying interaction design." See especially the resource library, "an annotated collection of content on all aspects of interaction design." Also, for a rich source of discussion, view the archives. (Prior to September 29, 2005, this association was called the Interaction Design Group.) (Posted 11/04, updated 11/05) |
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| AIGA Experience Design | An organization focusing on advancing and exploring experience design. The list of members is very impressive. Go to the Santa Fe Meeting page and search for the 'Artifact "Show and Tell"' for eleven presentations made at the meeting. This is the resources list and this is the gallery. (Posted 2/00, Updated 1/05) |
| UXnet | "UXnet creates effective, functional, and strategic networks to enable cross-disciplinary collaboration between user experience professionals. We connect people, organizations, resources, and ideas to enable the growth and maturation of User Experience as a practice, a community, and eventually a discipline." The board of directors consists of solid professionals in the field. Via InfoDesign. (Posted 12/07) |
| CHIiplace.org | "Our mission is to forge discussion on relevant Human-Computer Interaction issues within our professional online community. We hope to offer a forum for expressing new ideas within the context of an interactive, responsive environment." (Posted 1/05) |
| UX Week 2008 |
August 12-15, 2008. San Francisco.
This is the schedule. These are the sessions from 2007. Many have slides and some have audio posted. Select "Read more..." after each session and look at the Session Materials in the upper right. (Posted 7/08) |
| User Interface 13 |
October 13-16, 2008. Cambridge, MA.
"4 full days of in-depth techniques from the world's leading web design and usability experts." This is the program. (Posted 5/08) |
| Web 2.0 Summit |
November 5-7, 2008. San Francisco.
"It strikes us that the Web might teach us new ways to address these limits. From harnessing collective intelligence to a bias toward open systems, the Web's greatest inventions are, at their core, social movements. To that end, we're expanding our program this year to include leaders in the fields of healthcare, genetics, finance, global business, and yes, even politics." (Posted 5/08) |
| Previous Conference Sites Still of Interest | |
| World Usability Day |
November 13, 2008.
This year's theme is Transportation. The site lists events conducted all over the world. There's also a community page. (Posted 7/08) |
| CHI 2009 |
April 5-9, 2009. Boston.
"CHI 2009 will be the showcase for the technologies, designs and ideas that will form the new world of digital life." These are links to past CHI conferences. (Posted 7/08) |
| BayCHI Calendar of Events | Large compendium of HCI-related events, worldwide. (Posted 7/98) |
| Previous Conference Sites Still of Interest | |
| From Business to Buttons |
June 12-13, 2008. Malmo, Sweden.
Conference focusing on experience design with an emphasis on how to bridge the gap between the business goals and the product in use. These are PDFs of the presentations from the 2007 conference. (Posted 3/08) |
| Gel 2008 |
April 17-18, 2008. NYC.
"Gel ("Good Experience Live") is a conference and community exploring good experience in all its forms -- in business, art, society, technology, and life." Videos of many presentations from the 2005 and 2006 conferences are available. (Posted 7/07) |
| Interaction Design 08 | February 8-10, 2008. Savannah. "Join several hundred Interaction Designers from around the world as we address the design of interactive systems of all types: applications (web and desktop), mobile, consumer electronics, digitally enhanced environments, and more." These are the speakers and program. (Posted 10/07) |
| dux 07 |
Chicago. November 5-7, 2007.
The theme of the Designing User Experience Conference is Changing Roles and Shifting Landscapes. (Posted 6/07, Updated 5/07) |
| User Interface 12 |
November 5-8, 2007. Cambridge, MA.
Jared M. Spool and his team of usability researchers created these annual conferences for advanced practitioners - web designers, information architects, and usability professionals - who need to tackle the biggest design and usability challenges. This is the program. (Posted 9/07) |
| Web 2.0 Summit |
October 17-19, 2007. San Francisco.
"Web 2.0 Summit focuses on emerging business and technology developments that utilize the Web as a platform and defines how the Web will drive business in the future." These are the speakers and sessions. (Posted 9/07) |
| UIST 2007 |
October 7-10, 2007. Newport, Rhode Island.
"UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces." Here are the sites of previous UISTs. (Posted 3/07) |
| HCI International 2007 |
July 21-27, 2007. Beijing, P. R. China.
The 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, held jointly with: Symposium on Human Interface (Japan) 2007, 7th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, 4th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction , 2nd International Conference on Virtual Reality, 2nd International Conference on Usability and Internationalization, 2nd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing, 3rd International Conference on Augmented Cognition, and 1st International Conference on Digital Human Modeling. (Posted 9/06) |
| MobileHCI 2006 |
September 12-15, 2006. Espoo, Finland. 8th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, "a forum for academics and practitioners to discuss . . . the analysis, design, evaluation and application of human-computer interaction techniques and approaches for all mobile computing devices, software and services. The official language of the conference is English. This is the program. (Posted 9/06) |
| HCI with Mobile Devices and Services |
September 13-16, 2004. Glasgow, Scotland
Suggested topics include audio and speech interaction, context-dependent systems, designing Web sites for mobile devices, intelligent environments, Location-aware interaction, multimodal interaction, safety issues (e.g., in-car user interfaces), and visualization techniques for the mobile context. This is the programme. (Posted 7/04) |
| Ideo | One of the world's leading industrial product design firms. See, as a good example, their identity card concept project. (Posted 4/07) |
| Design-Interpretive | "Nortel Networks' human factors and design organization. Our mission is "designing the human experience". We increase the value of Nortel Networks product offerings by applying best in class prototyping, human factors, industrial and interface design disciplines to make Nortel Network solutions easy to choose, easy to use, and easy to maintain." (Posted 6/00) |
| Mikael Ericsson's Companies and Consultants |
Dated but still interesting international listing of companies and consultants specializing in HCI. (Posted 5/98) |
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| Stanford HCI Group | These are the academic offerings. But see especially the publications. (Posted 10/05) |
| ACM SIGCHI Education | At this posting, 29 educational programs and 21 additional resources are included. (Posted 9/98) |
| Other Selected Sources | |
| Learning-Theories.com | "This knowledge base features learning theories that address how people learn. A resource useful for scholars of various fields such as educational psychology, instructional design, and human-computer interaction." (Posted 7/07) |
| University Programs in HCI | From the Guide to Usability for Software Engineers at the University of Maryland. A very recent compilation by grad students. Created as part of a course on Usability Engineering by Ben Schneiderman. (Posted 12/98) |
| Introduction to the ACM SIGCHI Curricula for HCI | The focus is on designing HCI courses. Contains a great deal of useful information and several examples of courses. (Posted 7/97) |
| Human Interface Technology Lab |
University of Washington.
Very interesting site. Check out the Corsortium. "The Virtual Worlds Consortium is a guiding force at the HIT lab." (Posted 5/97) |
| Human Computer Interaction Lab |
University of Maryland.
Ben Schneiderman is head of this department. He's a long-established authority on CHI and User Interface Design. (Posted 5/97) |
| HCII | The Human-Computer Interaction Institute is an interdisciplinary research institute in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. (Posted 7/98) |
| Interaction Design Institute Ivrea | "A school and a lab that explores new ways that we interact with computers and communications." (Posted 1/01) |
| Mikael Ericsson's Research Labs and Projects |
Dated but still interesting international listing of research facilities and universities with HCI programs. (Posted 5/98) |
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| Eric Justin Gould on Interaction Design | Six articles from the Research page of the text only version of MONKEYmedia, where Eric is creative director. They include Domains of Design, Questions for Designers, Five Styles of Interaction, Slicing the Interface, Interaction Device Characteristics, and Making Content Meaningful.` (Posted 5/99) |
| What Is Interaction Design and What Does It Mean to Information Designers? | By Craig Marion. Part one of a two-part article presents the origins and meaning or interaction design and then focuses on what interaction designers do for projects. It contains links to many examples of interaction design and lays the groundwork for the second part of the article, Make Way for Interactive Assistance, which presents a typology of the ways interactivity can contribute to user assistance. (Posted 5/99) |
| Other Selected Sources | |
| Eliciting and Describing Users' Models of Computer Systems | By Martina Angela Sasse. "The topic of this thesis is users' models: the representations users may form of the computer system which they are interacting with." A Ph.D. Thesis, 1997. Via Scott McDaniel in Boxes and Arrows (Posted 3/03) |
| articles from LOOP | Articles from the AIGA Journal of Interaction Design Education. These are the archives. (Posted 8/02, Updated 1/05) |
| I3 Magazine | From the European Network for Intelligent Information Interfaces. Each issue of the quarterly treats a theme such as wearables or assistive technology. (Posted 11/04) |
| theory | A weekly column since February 12, 2001 discussing issues in interaction design and web design by Adam Baker, principal of Merges. Clear and direct. (Posted 8/01) |
| Towards a Framework of Interaction and Experience As It Relates to Product Design | By Jodi Forlizzi. Interesting summary of theories and abstracts of related papers. (Posted 6/00) |
| HCI, the Arts and the Humanities | 19 papers on semiotics, drama and the performing arts, literary techniques, improvisation and creativity, seeing differently, and analysing experience of digital technology. From a workshep held at the University of York, July 21, 2003. Via InfoDesign. (Posted 8/03) |
| Interaction Design: The Guru Speaks | An interview with Alan Cooper by John S. Rhodes. Alan discusses the principles of good software design -- which are completely congruent with what I'm calling Performance-Centered Design on this site -- plus his role in the development of Visual Basic and its significance, and his take on what's happening in the Web world. (Posted 4/99) |
| Interaction Spaces for 21st Century Computing | By Terry Winograd. "Describes a conceptual framework for the development of a new an architecture that is oriented towards integrated interaction spaces." Via Infodesign. (Posted 11/01) |
| From Computing Machinery to Interaction Design | by Terry Winograd. "Human-computer interaction is by necessity a field with interdisciplinary concerns. . . In the midst of this interdisciplinary collision, we can see the beginnings of a new profession, which might be called 'interaction design.' Although computers are at the center of interaction design, it is not a subfield of computer science." Originally published in Peter Denning and Robert Metcalfe (eds.), Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing, Springer-Verlag, 1997, 149-162. (Posted 5/99) |
| Recent Talks | by Brenda Laurel. See especially The Ethos of Computing, a 1997 presentation on how the stories we tell about computers and technology influence what they are becoming, and some stories we might use to shape the future. (Posted 4/00) |
| Go With The Flow | By John Geirland. Wired magazine, Sept. 1996. "According to Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, great Web sites are not about navigating content, but staging experience." (Posted 8/98, Link Updated 6/99) |
| HCIL Papers and Technical Reports | 135 online papers from the Human-Computer Interaction Lab of the University of Maryland. (Posted 5/98, Link Updated 6/99) |
| VID: Beyond the Interface Metaphor | by Ken Mohnkern. One of a series of articles on Visual Interaction Design. From the SIGCHI Bulletin, April 1997. (Posted 5/98) |
| VID: The Industrial Design of the Software Industry | by Brad Weed. One of a series of articles on Visual Interaction Design. From the SIGCHI Bulletin, July 1996. (Posted 5/97) |
| HCI & Requirements Engineering | by Judy Brown. Explores HCI and software engineering methodologies for creating interactive software. (Posted 5/98) |
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| UXmatters | A volunteer-driven Web magazine with a focus on designing digital-product user experiences that optimally serve people’s needs and satisfy their desires. Columns, editorials, freatures, and UX news. The magazine has an especially strong group of contributors. Via elearningpost. (Posted 12/05) |
| UX Magazine | UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. It is built upon the foundations of ProjectNeo, a global interactive design community. Via InfoDesign. (Posted 3/06) |
| SIGCHI Bulletin | New site launched June 10, 2004, where "You not only can read about the latest developments at SIGCHI you can participate in those developments via discussions, letters to the editor, and your own articles. Likewise, articles can be read on line, printed out or sent via e-mail." An excellent resource. (Posted 6/99, updated 7/04) |
| Interactions |
A publication of ACM SIGCHI. PDF versions of articles are available online to SIGCHI members. A digital edition is now available as well. (Posted 5/97, Updated 3/08) |
| Interfaces (Back Issues) | "The quarterly magazine for members of the British HCI Group, with features, events, reviews and jobs." (Posted 7/03) Via InfoDesign. |
| Moving WebWord | An internet usability/human factors column by by John S. Rhodes. Many excellent articles. See especially Web Usability Bill of Rights and also the The Hidden Truth About Web Content, where John argues that content isn't simply a matter of words: it's a matter of interactivity. John's interviews are also very good. Some of my favorites are Interaction Design: The Guru Speaks (Alan Cooper) and The Intersection of Information Architecture and Usability (Alison J. Head). (Posted 2/99, Updated 7/01) |
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| HCI Vistas | "HCI Vistas is an Indian e-publication, where the budding interaction designers and usability engineers are encouraged to write and publish short articles. It is a formal medium for them to share their original insights and experiences acquired during professional practice." (Posted 10/07) |
| UX Magazine | UX Magazine sets out to explore, promote & discuss the multiple facets of user experience one article at a time. It is built upon the foundations of ProjectNeo, a global interactive design community. Via InfoDesign (Posted 2/05) |
| Publications of ACM SIGCHI |
The SIGCHI bulletin contains interesting columns and articles. (Posted 5/97) |
| Hot Topics | "HOT Topics is a monthly online publication of the Human-Oriented Technology Lab at Carleton University mainly for academics, professionals and students. It supports state-of-the art research in the filed of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). Our aims are to provide stimulating content, but also to create a forum for discussion." Via UPA Resources (Posted 11/06) |
| Loop, the AIGA Journal of Interaction Design Education | "Loop is an on-line journal concerned with the nexus of issues surrounding practice, education and research in interactive media design. The journal focuses on the pressing issues surrounding the reconstitution of design education as it confronts the emerging world of computer-mediated artifacts and communication." At this writing, issue 6, focusing on archiving experience design, is displayed. Issues 1-5 are also available. AIGA is the American Institute of Graphic Arts. (Posted 6/03) |
| Human Factors International Newsletters | Past issues of their monthly e-newsletter are accessible online. From Human Factors International. (Posted 10/00, Link updated 7/06) |
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| Podcasts of BayCHI Events | Audio and slides from BayCHI presentations. Listen to, and sometimes view, Bill Scott's "Designing for Ajax," Jenson Harris' "Beyond Menus and Toolbars in Microsoft Office," and many other timely topics. (Posted 2/05, Updated 1/07) |
| Seminar on Cognitive Modeling for UI Design | Audio files and supporting materials from a seminar on "the current state of the art of evaluating user interface designs using models of human performance that are based on cognitive architectures" presented February 28 - March 2, 2005 by David E. Kieras, Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Michigan, whose current research focuses on developing the theory, techniques, and tools for analyzing and evaluating usability in HCI, and on the EPIC advance cognitive architecture for human performance modeling. Via InfoDesign. (Posted 7/05) |
| UXpod - User Experience Podcast | User Experience Discussions with Gerry Gaffney. From Information & Design, is a usability consultancy based in Melbourne, Australia. Via E-Learning Post. (Posted 10/06) |
| Building Documentation into the Interface | by Whitney Quesenbery. PowerPoint slides presenting an excellent intoduction to how principles of cognitive psychology apply to UI Design. Presented at the 45th STC Conference in May, 1998. (Posted 7/98, Updated 10/06) |
| What Is Interaction Design? | By Dan Saffer, Adaptive Path. Basic introduction. Here are the slides and this is a summary of what he covers. (Posted 10/06) |
| What is Interactivity anyway? and New Methods for Experience Design | By Nathan Shedroff. Interesting presentations. The first one has lots of examples from the web and links at the end to other valuable resources: articles and presentations, the Unified Field Theory of Design, and Nathan's Experience Design Resources. (Posted 2/99, Updated 1/05) |
| Interaction Design Meets Agility | Handouts for tutorial presented at UPA 2004 in Powerpoint format. This is the presentation in PDF format. Via InfoDesign. (Posted 11/04) |
| VoiceUI.Info: The Art & Science of Voice Dialogue Design | "This site presents basic information about the UI design of state of the art voice recognition technology." By Sam Horedsky. Via Infodesign. (Posted 11/02) |
| David Carr's materials on HCI & Interaction Design | David is Assistant Professor at Luleå Univ. of Technology in Sweden. His courses on HCI and Interactive Systems contains lots of useful online presentations (see the course plans for the first course and, especially, the second. (Posted 12/98) |
| Other Selected Sources | |
| Magic Ink | Information Software and the Graphical Interface. By Bret Victor. "The ubiquity of frustrating, unhelpful software interfaces has motivated decades of research into "Human-Computer Interaction." In this paper, I suggest that the long-standing focus on "interaction" may be misguided. For a majority subset of software, called "information software," I argue that interactivity is actually a curse for users and a crutch for designers, and users' goals can be better satisfied through other means. . . Information software design can be seen as the design of context-sensitive information graphics. . . I outline a tool which may allow designers to create data-dependent graphics with no engineering assistance, and also outline a platform which may allow an unprecedented level of implicit context-sharing between independent programs. I conclude by asserting that the principles of information software design will become critical as technology improves." Via InfoDesign (Posted 1/08) |
| The Frontiers of User Experience | By Jeffrey Vreen. Playful, free-form, presentation on design issues. Lots of interesting visuals. (Posted 9/04) |
| An explanation of user experience design (UX) | By David Heller. Actually, a discussion of the relationship between user experience and interaction design. (Posted 12/04) |
| Graphical User Interface Courses | Compiled by Charles Welty, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern Maine. A very useful compilation of university courses, most of which are labled HCI or some variant of GUI. Many have excellent online materials. (Posted 1/99) |
| Interactive Systems Design | by Chris Johnson. Detailed notes for a 1997 undergraduate introduction to designing interactive systems given at the University of Glasgow. (Posted 10/98) |
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| Patterns in Interaction Design | The strongest collections are Web Design Patterns and GUI Design patterns. Also a collection of MobileUI Design Patterns and a small collection of literature and links . These visual patterns, showing a variety of approaches to design, are VERY useful. By Martijn van Welie. (Posted 4/02; Updated 1/05) |
| User Experience Design Resources | Excellent collection of resources (though not annotated). Articles and papers available as well. (Posted 1/05, Updated 6/07) |
| IBM's Ease of Use Page | Lots of terrific information on topics such as web design guidelines, user-centered design, and ease of use design concepts. (Posted 9/98, Updated 1/07) |
| Basement.org | Richard Ziade's blog. "Basement.org is a reflection of my own professional interests and curiosity: the importance of good experience design; delivering richer experiences over the Web; the untapped potential of RSS and feed syndication; and how technology trends affect our personal and professional lives." (Posted 11/07) |
| HCI Resource Network | Extremely well modularized, well organized, up-to-date site. Probably the best single resource on the Web in this area. The most valuable section is HCI topics. This is free for 30 days, then there's a fee, which governs access to certain other sections as well. Free and accessable to all, though, are the job bank, resources(Books, Periodicals, Conferences, Organizations, and Publishers) resources on the net (Indices, Archives, Mailing Lists, Newsgroups, and more). (Posted 5/98, Updated 10/99) |
| The Interaction Designer's Coffee Break | "Daily posting and quarterly articles about interaction design." Postings are grouped by category at the bottom. By Henrik Olsen, an interaction designer living in Århus, Denmark. (Posted 5/02) |
| HCI Bibliography | 29,000 searchable records. Also many links grouped under the headings Learn About HCI, HCI Columns and News, and Developer Resources (Posted 9/98, Updated 1/05) |
| HCI Index | Well-organized, comprehensive index. Check What's New to keep up-to-date. If you're interested in submitting proposals for presentation, there's a helpful list of upcoming deadlines. (Posted 5/98, Updated 1/05) |
| Planet HCI | "Planet HCI is a web aggregator of feeds from HCI-related blogs, i.e., of those who care about how computers can serve users better." Via Mary Deaton's Techne. (Posted 5/05) |
| userexperiencenetwork | "News, events and other items of interest about user experience as an umbrella concept for collaboration and cooperation." (Posted 5/05) |
| Nooface | "The purpose of this site is to support the exchange of ideas about next-generation user interfaces, focusing on approaches that go beyond the WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointing Device) method on which most current user interfaces are based. The goal is to promote out-of-the-box thinking on how user interfaces might evolve to accommodate new classes of users and devices outside of the traditional PC domain." (Posted 10/01) |
| UX Zeitgeist | "Important books and topics on user experience design, according to the UX community." (Posted 7/08) |
| Best of chi-web & sigia-l | The chi-web and sig-ia mailing lists are two email based discussion groups on the topics of web usability, design and human computer interaction (the later with a heavier emphasis on information architecture). (Posted 2/04) |
| user-experience.org | Keith Instone's collection of his most recent works. Look at the links at the bottom of the page. (Posted 9/04) |
| odannyboy | By Danny Saffer, Danny maintains a blog and has a robust portolio. There are a number of useful links in his course on Visual Interface Design, which is "not even primarily about visual interface. It’s about interface and interaction design: how the features and functions of a product get translated into something humans find usable, useful, and desirable." (Posted 6/03, Updated 1/05) |
| Putting People First | "Daily insights on experience design, user experience, and innovation." From Experientia, "an international experience design consultancy helping companies and organisations to innovate their products, services and processes by creating valuable user experiences." (Posted 10/06) |
| Other Selected Sources | |
| Canadian User Experience Blog | Site for the user experience community in Canada. Interesting posts including a few presentations. (Posted 11/07) |
| CHI-WEB Mailing List | CHI-WEB is an ACM SIGCHI moderated discussion list on the human factor aspects of the World Wide Web. You can view the archives by date or search them. (Posted 1/03) |
| The interaction design patterns home page | More sweeping in scope than Patterns in Interaction Design, this collection by Tom Erickson is essentially a collection of papers on patterns and pattern languages. There's also a listing of pattern-related events at the top. (Posted 4/02) |
| Good Experience | "Our mission is to encourage the creation of good, meaningful experiences in business and life." See especially This Is Broken, "a project to make businesses more aware of their customer experience, and how to fix it." By Mark Hurst. (Posted 10/98, Revised 4/06) |
| Bad Human Factors Designs | By Michael J. Darnell. Start with the table of contents. (Posted 12/02) |
| Convivio | The European Thematic Network for the human- centered design of interactive technologies. The focus is on "broad discipline of human-centered design of digital systems for everday life." Via InfoDesign. (Posted 6/06) |
| Mikael Ericcson's HCI Resources on the Net | Mikael is at Linköping University in Sweden. His site contains a great deal of valuable information, but just a few sections, such as conferences, have been updated since September 1998. (Posted 5/97; revised 6/99) |
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| Archives of CHI-WEB@ACM.ORG | A goldmine of insights and observations on CHI/UI Design/Usability Issues. The list-serv is available for subscription, too, if you prefer. (Posted 4/99) |
| User Experience Pioneers | "Interviews with the people responsible for creating the UX discipline." Collected by Tamara Adlin. Via InfoDesign. (Posted 6/07) |
| Other Selected Sources | |
| The Interaction Museum | "The Interaction Museum is an on-line resource aimed at HCI practitioners, teachers and researchers that will collect a wide variety of interaction techniques and systems and make them available to the HCI community." Via InfoDesign. (Posted 5/08) |
| Processing Open Source Programming Language | "Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain." (Posted 12/07) |
| Colorblind Web Page Filter | A tool showing how the URL you select looks through several filters that replicate different types of colorblindness. Via LucDesk. (Posted 2/03) |
| The TaskGallery | A site in support of this video. 3-D alternative to windows on the desktop. No icons: just miniatures that are hung on a "gallery" and a "palette" of frequently-used applications. What used to be Windows in an application are now cards that can be manipulated in a stack. The site presents the info in the video using animated GIFs. (Posted 12/00) |
| UX Methods Card Game | The cards briefly describe 16 different methods, deliverables, and ideas that user experience professionals can use in their practice. Additional descriptions and some additional resources are on this page. Via InfoDesign. (Posted 5/07) |
| Mindspace.net | In conjunction with his book Envisioning Cyberspace: Designing 3-D Electronic Spaces , Peter Anders created MindSpace.net to support the interdisciplinary creation of dimensional, spatial cyberspaces. The site provides an excellent bibliography and list of related sites.(Posted 4/00) |
| INTERACTION-DESIGN.ORG | "A free, open-content, peer-reviewed Encyclopedia covering terms from the disciplines of Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Design, Human Factors, Usability, Information Architecture, and related fields." The site also contains a calendar of events. (Posted 12/05) |
| Celebrities in Cognitive Science | A list of 46 of them, by Martin Ryder of the from the School of Education of the University of Colorado at Denver. (Posted 12/98, Updated 9/03) |
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| Experience Design Resources | by Nathan Shedroff. Recommendations on interface design, information design, interaction design, multimedia , visual design , and business strategy . (Posted 5/99, Updated 8/02) |
| Suggested Readings in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Interface (UI) Development, & Human Factors (HF) | Excellent list by Gary Perlman. Briefly annotated. Displays thumbnails of book covers. Links to Amazon.com and, sometimes, online resources. (Posted 4/99, updated 1/02) |
| HCI Bibliography | Searchable. As of May, 1999, it contained 19,500 entries. (Posted 5/97, revised 6/99) |
| Other Selected Sources | |
| Coe, M. 1996. Human Factors for Technical Communicators . NY: John Wiley. (Posted 5/97) | |
| Garrett, J. 2002. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web. New Riders. See also Jesse's information architecture resources. (Posted 11/02, Updated 12/02) | |
| Laurel, B., ed., 1990. The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley. (Posted 5/97) | |
| Hix, D. & Hartson, H., 1993. Developing User Interfaces: Ensuring Usability Through Product and Process. NY: John Wiley. (Posted 5/97) | |
| Moggridge, B. 2006. Designing Interactions. MIT Press. (Posted 10/07) | |
| Preece, J., Rogers, Y., and Sharp, H. 2002. Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction. John Wiley. Three chapters, including What is interaction design and The process of interaction design are available at on the publisher's site, and a companion site contains a great deal of information, including powerpoint slides of lectures for each chapter. (Posted 6/03) | |
| Raskin, J., 2000. The Humane Interface. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. (Posted 7/00) | |
| Saffer. D. 2007. Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices. New Riders. (Posted 10/06) | |
| Schneiderman, B., 1997. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction, Third Edition. . Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley. (Posted 5/97) | |
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