New paper on mobile user experience, ACM interactions.

Bolchini, D., Pulido D., Faiola, A., ‘Paper-in-Screen’ Prototyping: An Agile Technique to Anticipate the Mobile Experience, ACM interactions XVI.4, July/August 2009, 29-33.

Bill Buxton on the role of Experience Designer

IDC 2009 - The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design for Children

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

IDC 2009 - The 8th International Conference on Interaction Design for Children In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI

Politecnico di Milano - Como Campus, Como, Italy June 3-5, 2009


For young people today, technology is pervasive in many aspects of life. From childhood onwards, they learn and play using computers and other technological devices; as they grow, they build and maintain friendships using computers and mobile phones; they interact with one another virtually; and even find critical interpersonal support and therapy using computers, the web, and other technology-enhanced artifacts.
>> Conference details and CALL FOR PAPERS

Sketching and Experience Design (by Bill Buxton at Stanfor HCI)

WWW 2008 Conference Proceedings ONLINE!

>>> The full set of papers of the International ACM World Wide Web Conference 2008 is now available and freely accessibile online >>>>

I look forward to see the practice of open, free online proceedings more and more spread among the scientific communities. I think it is a very good strategy to disseminate easily and more broadly the knowledge shared within the academic community.

>>> OUR Paper on "Value-Driven Design for Infosuasive Web Applications" is also published in the proceedings and freely accessible >>>

Storytelling design for Mechatronic at TEC-Lab

My colleagues at the TEC-lab at the University of Lugano
have just designed a storytelling web application
for an industrial customer: Mechatronic.

You can access the website at:
http://www.mechatronic.unisi.ch/

The application development exploits an effective and usable storytelling design pattern and content management system developed at University of Lugano and Politecnico di Milano.

SIG DOC 2008 - ACM Design of Communication

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26th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication (SIGDOC 2008)

September. 22-24, 2008.

Lisbon, Portugal

http://sigdoc2008.net

Submission deadline: May 2, 2008

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TED - Ideas Worth Spreading: Incredibly Inspiring Talks from an annual unique conference

TED VIDEO talks are now available online at www.ted.com >>>>

from TED.com
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TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.

The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).

TED.com makes the best talks and performances from TED available to the public, for free.
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Jared Spool on "The Age of the Experience"

Requirements and goals should primarily concern the envisioned experience for the user (and expected from all stakeholders), rather than features and functionality.
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About....illuminating ideas

"Illuminating ideas are so simple that they seem to have been around the corner ever since. This is why we say: it‘s true".

(surely someone have already expressed it much better than I did, but this is what I think).

Quotation from Antoine de Saint Exupery - about perfection

“In anything at all, perfection is attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away". (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

Quotation - method and intuition

I have found this insightful quotation - attributed to Mihai Nadin - in the lecture notes of Stanford HCI course by Prof. Klemmer:

“Method helps intuition when it is not transformed into dictatorship. Intuition augments method if it does not instill anarchy. In every moment of our semiotic existence, method and intuition complement one another. (Mihai Nadin)”