Two Monologues Do not Make a Dialogue: Preview of Norman’s “Design of Future Things”

A quick preview of Don Norman’s next work “Design of Future Things”, looks intriguing in the 1st chapter itself. He discusses the idiom of interaction between human and smart systems that are going to have a lot of work delegated to, in the years to come.
His unique insights about human behavioral dispositions with respect to [...]

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From ‘Instrumental’ to ‘Experiential’: Evolutions in Human Centered System Design

Human Factors Engineers and Ergonomists would argue that ‘User Experience’ is relatively a new term and definitely a buzzword. It is an attempt to re-package the old technique with a new age gimmick. The academic community has been engaged with this issue for some time now. Some interesting discussions in this context has been posted [...]

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‘Richard Coyne’ defines philosophy of ‘Experience’ and ‘Design of Technology’

This was orginally posted in my other blog, but I though this would be more appropriate here.Recently I found this book review

Coyne, Richard, Designing Information Technology in the Postmodern Age.
This book examines the design of computer systems from the perspective of several areas of postmodern philosophy. Coyne seeks to investigate and illuminate the [...]

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