Posts Tagged ‘design’
Simulating user experience
Since the 1950’s, the Human Sciences (in the broad sense that includes design) have embraced a user- or human-centered approach to research. This usually takes the form of ubiquitous user experience surveys, observation, and other methods of getting ecologically valid feedback. Many “experts” in these fields, however, still insist that users doesn’t know what they […]
NYTimes articles on technology, usability, and design
Heads up on a couple of great articles in the New York Times today:
The first article, “At a Certain Age, Simplicity Sells in High-Tech Gadgets“, closely relates to a previous post about how one of technology’s outgroups - the baby boomers and older - sometimes convinces itself that it cannot understand new technology. The column […]
Engineering Design and government funding
To any academic reading this blog who senses that their research interests are in any way related to mine:
Leave a comment, I’d love to hear from you and know what you’re doing, and how your research is going.
Check out the NSF funding for Engineering Design, and the projects that have been supported in the past.
I’ve […]
Designing verbs
It is sometimes difficult to keep up with what actually qualifies as design – what used to be a strictly professional pursuit has become the domain of anyone with a mild creative streak and a few spare moments on a computer. More and more people are being offered a way in, from amateur photographers eagerly […]
This one goes out
So this gives Cognitive Lens three primary audiences: engineers, designers, and psychologists (particularly of the cognitive persuasion). A group I also hope to connect with more generally are those undertaking research degrees of all sorts - including undergraduates considering grad school, Masters students working their way through deeper coursework, and Doctorate students engaging in research at the deepest levels.