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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: Jingyuan Gao

Interaction Designer Responsibility.

May 10, 2025

In a world where AI is deeply integrated into life, interaction designers must not only be aesthetically pleasing and […]

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iPod/iPhone

April 30, 2025May 10, 2025

The iPod and iPhone changed our relationship with technology, making it less of a cold tool and more of […]

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Web 2.0 vs New Web

April 30, 2025May 10, 2025

Since the term “Web 2.0” was coined in 2004, it has changed the way we use the Internet. This […]

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GUI and Personal Computer

April 4, 2025

  Graphical user interfaces have come a long way since the early Macintosh and Windows days – they are […]

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Lucy Suchman

March 17, 2025May 25, 2025

Lucy Suchman’s research, particularly the book *Plans and Situated Actions*, has transformed our understanding of human interaction with technology, […]

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How did the Xerox Star change the direction of computing?

March 17, 2025May 25, 2025

The Xerox Star revolutionized computing by introducing the graphical user interface (GUI), which replaced the text-based command line with […]

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Forerunners

March 4, 2025May 25, 2025

In 1968, Douglas Engelbart and his team at SRI changed the future of computing with a groundbreaking 90-minute presentation […]

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Twitter and Egyptian hieroglyphs

February 4, 2025May 25, 2025

Twitter Little Blue Bird is a global social networking platform, “Little Blue Bird” represents the concept of “instant messaging”: […]

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Gestalt principles & Fitts Law

February 4, 2025May 25, 2025

Gestalt Principles & Fitts’s Law When designing interactive interfaces, there are two aspects that can help improve the user […]

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Lovelace and Gilbreth

February 4, 2025May 25, 2025

When looking back at the evolution of interaction design, we tend to focus on designs such as digital products […]

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