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When I was designing Squeezey (best viewed on desktop), a budgeting app meant to help people manage impulsive buying, I added a feature that leverages the latest technology. Using Google Vision API, users could photograph something they… Read more: Designing For User Agency in AI-Driven Experiences

Interaction design is fundamentally about creating connections between users and technology. These interactions are becoming increasingly emotional in nature. Modern touchscreens provide diverse haptic feedback that engages our sense of touch. The tone and content of design… Read more: Design with good intention

As artificial intelligence becomes more embedded in digital products, interaction designers have increasing ethical responsibility for how these systems shape human experience. Unlike traditional interfaces, AI systems learn, predict, and influence behavior at scale – making ethics… Read more: Designing in the Age of AI: The Ethical Responsibilities of Interaction Designers

As interaction designers, we are taught a great deal about how our designs impact people. We study human behavior, cognitive science, and principles of psychology. With this knowledge, we gain responsibility. Keeping users safe, protecting their information,… Read more: Designing Responsibly

Interaction Designers have always shaped how people experience technology, but with AI, I feel like that responsibility deepens. I think we can all feel it now, especially since this is such a large and growing topic in… Read more: Ethics and Agency: IXD and the new age of AI

I think ethical responsibility starts before anything is actually designed. Before adding a new feature, building a product, or deciding how AI should be integrated into a workflow, we should first pause and ask: Who will this… Read more: On Responsibility in Designing With AI

I believe the first ethical responsibility is transparency during the design phase. Interaction designers need to let users know when they are interacting with AI and explain how the system makes decisions. Simultaneously, designers need to inform… Read more: Ethical responsibility of interaction designers to end users

What are the ethical responsibilities of interaction designers to their end users? Especially related to AI and its integration with our work. When we talk about design, we don’t usually talk about moral responsibility. We tend to… Read more: When AI Enters the Conversation: Rethinking the Designer’s Ethical Role

Interaction designers have a core ethical responsibility to protect users from manipulation and unintended consequences, especially as AI systems become embedded in everyday interfaces. One key duty is to maintain transparency. Users should be able to clearly… Read more: Trust and Transparency: The Ethical Duty of Interaction Designers

Interaction designers have an important ethical responsibility to protect users when working with AI, because AI systems can easily influence people without them noticing. Designers should make AI honest, easy to understand, and respectful of users’ choices—meaning… Read more: Ethical Responsibilities of Interaction Designers in the Age of AI

The visit to the Computer History Museum was actually surprisingly fun to me. I thought it would be mainly about the previous generations of computer engines and early calculators, but I discovered a bunch of very interesting… Read more: CHM Field Trip

What impressed me the most when I visited the Computer History Museum was that the history of technology felt like a “story created by people’s imagination and curiosity,” not just the development of machines or codes. Looking… Read more: Imagination, Curiosity, and the Origins of AI

What was your impression of the CHM? What did you learn that hadn’t been covered in class? What was your favorite fact or object and why? I really enjoyed my visit to the Computer History Museum. It… Read more: Computer History Museum Visit

My impression of the Computer History Museum was that it was way bigger and more interactive than I expected. The exhibits showed how computers changed from these huge machines that filled entire rooms to personal devices we… Read more: Field Trips – Computer History Museum

My Impression of the CHM:I thought the Computer History Museum was really cool. It was interesting to see how video games and computers have changed over time. Seeing the old machines in person made me appreciate how… Read more: CHM Field Trips

I’ve been diving deep into Post-War ideologies ever since my first project for this class, where I explored Metropolis and the historical context behind society’s obsession with technology and industrialization. For example, Post-WWI Germany industrialized rapidly. My… Read more: From War Machine to Commercial Machine

The Computer History Museum was an incredible space! I was really impressed with how everything was displayed, and I enjoyed finding my way around the museum. It was exciting to learn more about the progression of computers,… Read more: CHM Visit

My first impression of the CHM was… “Oh my god, this is so cool!” (me, verbatim at the CHM, 2025) Everywhere I looked, there were genuine items and replicas alike that brought me so much awe for… Read more: Finding Humanity in Machines: A Reflection of my Visit to the CHM

I thought that the CHM had really impressive exhibits. I think when I arrived, I was just expecting that the museum would cover all the main stories of a literal computer’s history; instead, I was faced with… Read more: Discovering what came before: CHM

The CHM didn’t feel like a traditional museum to me, instead it felt more like entering a story. The experience began in a dark hallway that resembled the entrance of a cinema, as if the museum wanted… Read more: Reflections on the Computer History Museum

My impression of the CHM is that there are so many old computers and robots in it, which is really cool. The old computer looks amazing and classic. Although most of them are very heavy and clumsy,… Read more: The experience in CHM

My first impression of the Computer History Museum was that everyone there was dressed formally and most of the people there were men in suits. There were a few women there as well and they were also… Read more: Visit to the Computer History Museum