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Interaction Design History Spring 2025

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  • In the Beginning
    • Early Writing & Pictography
  • Industrial Age
    • Lovelace & Gilbreth
    • Gestalt Principles & Fitts Law
    • Manifestos
  • Silicon Age
    • Mid-Century Innovations
    • Lucy Suchman
    • Xerox Star
  • Computer Age
    • DARPA
    • Graphical User Interface
    • Design Systems
    • Pace Layers
    • User Experience
  • Information Age
    • Accessibility
    • iPod & iPhone
    • Web 2.0
  • IXD Futures
    • AI and UX Ethics
    • IXD Futures Diagram
    • Field Trips
    • Lectures

Author: Andi Wu

Ethics

May 12, 2025May 12, 2025

I believe that interaction designers have a responsibility to protect and center user power, especially when designing with AI. […]

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iPod and iPhone

May 6, 2025May 12, 2025

The iPod and iPhone marked a major shift in people’s relationship with technology, making it more personal, portable, and […]

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Web 2.0

May 5, 2025May 12, 2025

I believe that Web 2.0 introduced interactive features that allowed users to create content, connect through social media and […]

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GUI and Personal Computer

April 1, 2025April 4, 2025

I think graphical user interfaces have improved much in terms of visual design and aesthetics since the early days […]

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Lucy Suchman and the Usability of Human-computer Interaction

March 18, 2025May 25, 2025

Lucy Suchman’s particularly field research at Xerox PARC, fundamentally altered our approach to measuring whether or not technology serves […]

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Xerox Star:Bringing the Future of System Interfaces

March 10, 2025May 25, 2025

The Xerox Star, which debuted in 1981, revolutionized computer usewith the graphical user interface (GUI) that was to become […]

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Mother of all Demos

March 3, 2025May 25, 2025

Douglas Engelbart’s demonstration of 1968, popularly referred to as the “mother of all demos”, was a milestone in the […]

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Gestalt Principles and Fitts’s Law

February 11, 2025February 11, 2025

When I design an interactive design software, I consider visual simplicity, the relationship between elements, and user comfort in […]

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Google Chrome’s relationship with Pictography & Modern Icons

February 4, 2025February 5, 2025

Symbols of every form and nature have formed the basis forcommunication-from Sumerian cuneiform and Mayan pictographs toEgyptian hieroglyphics, and […]

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Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth

February 4, 2025May 25, 2025

Speaking of foundational figures within the history of interaction design, Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth indeed are contributing from […]

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