This quarter I took a very interesting class called Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction, dictated by Scott Klemmer here at Stanford. It basically showed us how to build and, above all, how to test an interaction. It is supposed to be about the relation between a human and a machine…but sometimes I thought we were talking about human-human interaction.
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Even inside the same discipline, technology does not advances on a par. The digital filming techniques, by instance, have revolutionized the movie industry. However, in many places, we continue to see those movies through an analogical device, with a film and a source of light.
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I think Stanford is doing a good job in trying to take a process out of the chaos of design work. Observation, insights, design actions, brainstormin, etc. However, as in any other synthesis effort, those things that are hard to talk-about are being left outside. I can easily think of two that are, in my opinion, pillars of design work. I mentioned them in the title of this post.
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I’ve been reading some stuff about the G1 phone because I wanted to buy an Iphone and I can’t because I don’t have a SSN…besides, it’s been sometime since I’m kind of pissed off by Apple, with all their nineteenth century business model disguised as trendy stuff. They do built great things but…why all this obsolete protection?
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Recently I interviewed the CEO of a big company, and even though he’s a very nice guy, I was surprised by how he had a very sure answer for everything.
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We are supposed to, every week, write these reflections for 313. The idea is to sit down and just think, about something related to design, and then to post it here. I did so a couple of times already, although it is sometimes hard, specially because there is always a “forming” to be done, which doesn’t have necessarily to do with thinking.
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