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Great feedback from my students

So as well as my consultancy work, I teach Interaction Design and Human Centred Design Methods at UNSW.  It’s great to keep your ideas fresh by working with lots of 19-25 year olds – and from lots of different cultures – often with VERY different ideas about technology and our relationship with it.  Anyway, I […]

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Functional fixedness… and Zen

  So much of what is talked about in HCD/UCD and Design Thinking is overcoming what in Psych terms is referred to as ‘functional fixedness’.  Ie: ‘knowing things’ about a subject.  This is reflected in assumptions – which need to be constantly re-examined to see if they are still relevant/valid.  And it is reflected in […]

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