As I write this the Police’s “Synchronicity” is on the radio and that’s a good way of summing up some of the interesting developments experienced during the past few months.
Continue readingArrows in Our Quiver
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Category: Foundational Thinking
Boxes and Arrows has been serving the user experience and information architecture community since 2001. Along the way, some pretty big ideas have been developed here by people who are now leaders in the industry. We hope you’ll find inspiration in these posts.
Just How Far Beyond HCI is Interaction Design?
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A recent book captures a larger movement within the academic field of human-computer interaction away from its traditions of behavioral science and engineering towards “interaction design.” But re-labeling isn’t enough, it also requires a shift in philosophical foundations as well as professional practice, and the language of HCI is not the best place to look for inspiration.
Continue readingSpeaking in Tongues
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In last month’s welcome, I set out to describe Boxes and Arrows purpose and goals. On a line by itself I stated this is not a place for jargon. I felt that was important enough to call out. I certainly am being called to task for that.
Continue readingWhat’s in a Name? Or, What Exactly Do We Call Ourselves?
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Defining the audience for Boxes and Arrows sparked the same kind of heated discussion as the community-at-large about what exactly do we call ourselves? Here’s two views, we’re sure there are more…
Continue readingThe Making of a Discipline: The Making of a Title
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Many people who work within the design field have had a hard time assimilating the full scope of Experience Design—and a harder time accepting their niches within it. The reasons for this resistance uncover much about the state of design as well as the state of identity.
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