{"id":65,"date":"2025-07-30T22:43:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/?page_id=65"},"modified":"2025-07-30T22:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T22:43:59","slug":"lovelace-gilbreth","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/lovelace-gilbreth\/","title":{"rendered":"lovelace &amp; gilbreth"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list has-dates has-author wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/18\/dreamers-ahead-of-their-time\/\">Dreamers Ahead of Their Time<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Egie Kwon<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-18T06:59:34+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 18, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The world we live in today is the result of the accumulation of the imagination of many inventors and thinkers. Among them, two women, Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreath, lived in different times, but were pioneers in common who drew\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/18\/dreamers-ahead-of-their-time\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Dreamers Ahead of Their Time<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/imagination-shapes-future-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth\/\">Imagination shapes future: Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Amanda Yu<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-17T21:39:00+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth both served as pioneers in shaping the fields of human- centred design and computer programming; although they lived in different centuries and worked on various focus, they both made remarkable contributions that still matter in\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/imagination-shapes-future-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Imagination shapes future: Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/why-are-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth-important-to-know-about-for-ixd-history\/\">Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History?<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Ye Lou<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-17T19:46:08+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">When we talk about the history of Interaction Design, it\u2019s easy to think only about computers and screens. But Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth show us that IxD has always been bigger than that. Lovelace worked with Charles Babbage in\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/why-are-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth-important-to-know-about-for-ixd-history\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History?<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/some-lessons-from-two-women-visionaries-in-ixd\/\">Some Lessons From Two Women Visionaries in IxD<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Arianne Omila<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-17T06:57:12+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Ada Lovelace was essentially the first ever computer programmer. She, in her poetic, scientific playfulness, wrote the earliest form of programming, envisioning a concept that reached beyond the Difference Engine&#8217;s original use case. Charles Babbage designed it for solving numerical\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/some-lessons-from-two-women-visionaries-in-ixd\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Some Lessons From Two Women Visionaries in IxD<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/what-women-can-do-when-they-given-a-chance-dont-forget-about-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth\/\">What women can do when they are given a chance: Don\u2019t forget about Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth.<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Helen Chen<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-17T05:12:17+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">In 1843, Ada Lovelace wrote the first paper on computer science, including the earliest complete computer program. Reading about Ada Lovelace\u2019s life, it really made me believe that she gained that craziness, poetic, creative power in her blood. As someone\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/what-women-can-do-when-they-given-a-chance-dont-forget-about-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: What women can do when they are given a chance: Don\u2019t forget about Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth.<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/ahead-of-their-time-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth-in-ixd-history\/\">Ahead of Their Time: Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth in IXD History<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Mackenzie Chen<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-17T04:31:56+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">When I first learned about Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth, I was struck by how much of what they did resonated with some core values of today&#8217;s interaction design and technology industry. Many of the &#8220;mainstream&#8221; principles in UX design,\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/ahead-of-their-time-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth-in-ixd-history\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Ahead of Their Time: Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth in IXD History<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/ixd-pioneers-lovelace-gilbreth\/\">IXD Pioneers: Lovelace &amp; Gilbreth<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Hannah Wang<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-17T04:01:17+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 17, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History? Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth both played important roles as pioneers in the history of computers and industrial design. Their research has a huge direct connection\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/17\/ixd-pioneers-lovelace-gilbreth\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: IXD Pioneers: Lovelace &amp; Gilbreth<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/16\/blog-topic-1-predicting-the-future-and-practical-exploration\/\">Blog &#8211; Topic 1 Predicting the future and practical exploration<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Jason Wu<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-16T04:08:15+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 16, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Ada Lovelace mentioned that the future possibilities for human-machine interaction. She seems to have the ability to see the future and predict that computers will be able to do many interesting things in the future, such as editing music and\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/16\/blog-topic-1-predicting-the-future-and-practical-exploration\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Blog &#8211; Topic 1 Predicting the future and practical exploration<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/15\/ixds-founding-mothers\/\">IXD&#8217;s Founding Mothers<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Willow Munaba<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-15T21:59:42+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 15, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Interaction design is heavily associated with screens, apps and websites. At its very core, it is the relationship between the user and the system. Interaction design started with the idea that technology should serve human potential. Ada Lovelace imagined machines\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/15\/ixds-founding-mothers\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: IXD&#8217;s Founding Mothers<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/15\/two-foundations-of-interaction-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth\/\">Two Foundations of Interaction: Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Marcus Lee<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-15T03:06:35+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 15, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">So I&#8217;ve been reading about the history of Interaction Design and these two women kept coming up &#8211; Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth. They&#8217;re from completely different time periods but both did stuff that was way ahead of their time.\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/15\/two-foundations-of-interaction-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Two Foundations of Interaction: Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/14\/visionaries-and-engineers-the-importance-of-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth\/\">Visionaries and Engineers &#8211; The importance of Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Abigail Smith<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-14T23:43:30+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 14, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">The stories of many women throughout history trigger a melody in my head when I read them, \u201cBig Eyes\u201d by Lana Del Rey. Written for the movie Big Eyes in 2014, the song details the story of Margaret Keane, whose\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/14\/visionaries-and-engineers-the-importance-of-ada-lovelace-and-lillian-gilbreth\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Visionaries and Engineers &#8211; The importance of Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/14\/studying-innovative-women-lovelace-gilbreth-matters\/\">Studying Innovative Women (Lovelace &amp; Gilbreth) matters!<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-author\">by Sarah Ellzey<\/div><time datetime=\"2025-09-14T22:57:51+00:00\" class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-date\">September 14, 2025<\/time><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Why are Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth important to know about for IXD History? In both the technology and design worlds, women have been largely overlooked and unacknowledged. Today, we know that Ada Lovelace is actually the first computer programmer,\u2026 <a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/2025\/09\/14\/studying-innovative-women-lovelace-gilbreth-matters\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">: Studying Innovative Women (Lovelace &amp; Gilbreth) matters!<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-65","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/65\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.interactiondesignhistory.com\/Fall2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}