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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
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  • Silicon Age
    • Mid-Century Innovations
    • Lucy Suchman
    • Xerox Star
  • Computer Age
    • DARPA
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    • Design Systems
    • Pace Layers
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  • Information Age
    • Accessibility
    • iPod & iPhone
    • Web 2.0
  • IXD Futures
    • AI and UX Ethics
    • IXD Futures Diagram
    • Field Trips
    • Lectures

Author: Cecilia Cai

Software development centered on users’ needs.

May 8, 2025

When designing and developing software products, user privacy and data security must be the primary considerations. Users should be […]

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From Touch Habit to Interaction Design: How Mobile Phones Change Our Behaviors and Needs

May 1, 2025

When you first use the iPod, you need to rely on key operation; Nowadays, people just need to poke […]

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Web 2.0 and Future: How interaction has transformed

May 1, 2025

Web 2.0 marks a major change from one-way information transmission to user participation and interaction, and its interaction mode […]

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Evolution of Graphical User Interface: Visual Style, Interactive Mode and Improvement

April 1, 2025

The visual style of graphical user has changed, because the early Macintosh and Windows used simple interface dynamics, simple […]

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Lucy Suchman’s Impact on Interaction and User-Centered Design

March 18, 2025May 25, 2025

Lucy Suchman’s work has had a profound impact on the field of interaction and technical design, especially on how […]

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Xerox star: the pioneer of computer network office

March 10, 2025May 25, 2025

Xerox Star was one of the earliest systems that emphasized computer networking. It integrated the functions of e-mail, file […]

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Douglas Engelbart – Computer revolutionary demonstration

March 3, 2025May 25, 2025

In The Mother of All Demos, Douglas Engelbart and his team demonstrated several innovative technologies. Among them, the use […]

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Gestalt Principles and Fitts’s Law

February 11, 2025May 25, 2025

After reading the Gestalt Principles, I realized that these principles can be well applied to future design practice. By […]

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Early Writing & Iconography

February 4, 2025

The icon of the Safari browser is a blue compass, which symbolizes exploration, navigation, and direction. This design is […]

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Lovelace & Gilbreth

February 4, 2025February 4, 2025

Ada Lovelace is considered to be the first programmer in the world. Her philosophy emphasizes that computers can be […]

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