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Nonagenarian designs for aging and inspires younger designers
Barbara Beskind, 90, is a designer at IDEO who works with engineers on products that improve the quality of life for older people.Nicolas Zurcher/Courtesy of IDEO NPR published a great story on Barbara...
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Treemap sighting in the wild: U.S. Budget proposal
I get pretty excited when I see my favorite infovis being used: The Treemap Just released today – the proposed U.S. budget as a treemap! So, how well did this visualization work for its intended...
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Fun infovis on words in RateMyProfessor
Here is something fun to play with today: a tool that visualizes the occurance of words in RateMyProfessor reviews according to the gender of the professor and the department he or she teaches in. Data...
View ArticleTen Years of Designing for Humans
Designing for Humans celebrates their 10th anniversary with a best-of post. It is incredibly hard to keep up the motivation to maintain a blog for that long so hats off!
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The Square Cash Disappearing Act
Square Cash is a great service – it allows you to send money via an email with no service charge if you’re using your debit card. You can receive money without entering a PIN. I use it all the time to...
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Parking sign re-design
I’ll be the first to admit that I experience cognitive overload while trying to park. When there are three signs and the information needs to be combined across them, or at least each one needs to be...
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Rock Climbing Human Factors – Harness attachment points
A friend of mine was recently rappelling from a climb, meaning that she had the rope through a device that was connected to her belay loop on her harness. As she rappelled, she yelled that her harness...
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Helmet Design and Environment Interaction
I wanted a new helmet that offered some side-impact protection to replace my trusty Petzl Ecrin Roc, especially after a helmet-less Slovenian climber mocked me in Italy for wearing “such a heavy...
View ArticleWarning against overgeneralizing in UX
I enjoyed this article by Matt Gallivan, Experience Research Manager at AirBnB, about the tendency of experts to overgeneralize their knowledge. I try to watch out for it in my own life: When you’re an...
View ArticleWhat happens when you throw away the rulebook
You end up with the TVR Tuscan. Enjoy this video of the crazy design decisions made for this car.
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Thoughtful and Fun Interfaces in the Reykjavik City Museum
I stopped over in Iceland on the way to a conference and popped in to the Reykjavik City Museum, not knowing what I’d find. I love the idea of technology in a museum, but I’m usually disappointed....
View ArticleDesigning the technology of ‘Blade Runner 2049’
The original Bladerunner is my favorite movie and can be credited as sparking my interest in human-technology/human-autonomy interactions. The sequel is fantastic if you have not seen it (I’ve seen it...
View ArticleHuman-Robot/AI Relationships: Interview with Dr. Julie Carpenter
Over at https://HumanAutonomy.com, we had a chance to interview Dr. Julie Carpenter about her research on human-robot/AI relationships. As the first post in a series, we interview one the pioneers in...
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Listening to the End User: NHL/NHLPA Collaboration with Hockey Goalies
Today we present a guest post by Ragan Wilson, PhD student in Human Factors and Applied Cognitive Psychology at NC State University. Saying that goalies in professional ice hockey see the puck a lot is...
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Third Edition of Designing for Older Adults
The third edition of the definitive source for information for designing for older adults has been published: This new edition provides easily accessible and usable guidelines for practitioners in the...
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