Tag Archives: user-centered design

The betacup design challenge for a sustainable community

1 Apr 2010 – 8:17

The betacup design contest launches today! This no April Fool’s joke! My good pal Will Evans and I wrote this call-to-action the other day — I’m reposting it here. Submissions are already rolling in! (Check ‘em out here!) ————– It’s been said that design shapes behavior; and in user experience (UX) design, behavior informs design which [...]

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Using remote research to inform social interaction design (SxD)

4 Feb 2010 – 9:02

This was originally posted on the Bolt|Peters blog on February 2, 2010, as a guest author. What is social interaction design? Social interaction design (SxD) is the practice of designing for person-to-person interactions mediated by a computer interface, going beyond pure usability and human-computer interaction. Even fairly solitary experiences like editing a Wikipedia page occur [...]

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Putting the craft in design thinking

31 Jan 2010 – 15:50

This was originally posted on Unstructure on January 30 2010, as a guest author. Is design thinking really that hard? There is obviously a growing acceptance of the notion behind design thinking as the previous essays and comments pointed out. But it remains that there is no formula for design thinking, and because of that, [...]

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Reflections on the betacup (part II)

4 Aug 2009 – 11:04

“I grabbed a cup of instant from the hospitality table on the second morning of orientation. It was piping hot and I was in a hurry, so I stuck an ice cube in, but then a friend hailed me and began chatting; by the time we parted, I was holding a cup of watery lukewarm [...]

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Betacup: Demonstrating the value of user-centered design thinking

30 Jul 2009 – 12:45

There is problem with disposable paper cups: they aren’t recyclable. Now you might ask: but isn’t paper recyclable? I, too, thought paper cups were recyclable, and thinking back to my behaviors, I’m almost positive that I’ve been dropping used paper cups in the recycling bin. Unfortunately, most paper cups are made with a wax lining [...]

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