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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: Chenghao Chen

Ethical responsibilities of interaction designers

May 13, 2025

As AI technology becomes deeply integrated into various digital products, the role of interaction designers is no longer limited […]

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About Lucy Suchman

April 29, 2025

Lucy Suchman’s research fundamentally changed our understanding of “whether technology is suitable for human use.” Her study of photocopier […]

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Pictography & Modern Icons

April 29, 2025

Twitter Icon (Bird) The bird represents “sending a message.” Users need to understand that this refers to the message-sending […]

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Ada Lovelace and Lillian Gilbreth

April 29, 2025

Ada Lovelace was the first programmer. She wrote programs for early “computers” and predicted that machines could handle music […]

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Views on graphical user interfaces

April 1, 2025April 1, 2025

Since the early days of Macintosh and Windows, the graphical user interface has undergone significant changes, but some core […]

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The Xerox Star

March 11, 2025May 25, 2025

While the Xerox Star itself wasn’t a commercial success, its design heavily influenced later systems like the Apple Macintosh […]

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What ways might me consider Gestalt principles and Fitt’s Law

March 4, 2025May 25, 2025

I will use the Gestalt principle to group related things, putting similar or related elements together, for example, placing […]

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Why was the demo by Douglas Engelbart and the team at SRI so important?

March 4, 2025May 25, 2025

The demonstration conducted by Douglas Engelbart in 1968 was so important because it introduced many fundamental technologies of modern […]

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