Category Archives: Learning

What if what we know is wrong?

Posted on March 11, 2013 by

Many years ago I came across a diagram of the four boxes of knowing: I was reminded of the box about “what you know that is wrong” while listening to Dana Chisnell’s talk on “Rethinking User Research and Usability Testing … Continue reading →

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Seeing Organizations – How do you teach?

Posted on March 10, 2013 by

Several years ago, David Socha and I wrote an article “Is Designing Software Different From Designing Other Things?” In the article I shared my Chris Alexander “Ah Hah” moment about designing better software products: “Successful software design processes include an … Continue reading →

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Entrepreneurial Teachable Moments

Posted on March 9, 2013 by

The Professor and the VC I attended the UW HCDE Corporate Affiliate Program (CAP) on Tuesday morning and sat next to one of my colleagues who also started a “maker” company last year.  As the corporate affiliates were introduced, we were both … Continue reading →

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ConveyUX – Highlights from the cheap seats

Posted on March 8, 2013 by

Last week I managed to squeeze time into my crazy schedule to attend the ConveyUX conference in Seattle sponsored by BlinkUX. I was delighted to see the international turnout and many familiar faces from the UW HCDE program. While I … Continue reading →

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Find. Cut. Paste. Tweak.

Posted on July 14, 2012 by

“Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born.  If it was around, it’s an appliance.” - Alan Kay I keep thinking that nothing can amaze me any more when it comes to technology. Then I come face to face … Continue reading →

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Graduate Students – Best Knowledge Transfer System

Posted on May 23, 2012 by

Way too many sleeps ago, Russ Ackoff shared that the best information retrieval system and best knowledge transfer system was the collection of graduate students that worked with him at Penn’s Wharton School. “Every morning when I come into the … Continue reading →

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FroggyCut – Girls Rule Technology

Posted on May 1, 2012 by

A couple of weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Technovation Challenge competition for high school girls at Twitter Intergalactic Headquarters in San Francisco put on by Iridescent Learning and sponsored by Google, Twitter, Adobe, Microsoft and Intel.  My daughter, Elizabeth Shelly, … Continue reading →

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Teaching “Hybrid” Courses

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

I love synchronicity. As part of David Socha’s research agenda is the rethinking of how one transforms a class from professor centered to student learning centered. As part of the ever flowing collaboration between David, Alan Wood and me, we … Continue reading →

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In Honor of the Recent 2012 CSCW in Seattle

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

The 2012 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) just concluded in Seattle. The conference draws a wide range of academic and industry luminaries. CSCW describes themselves as: “CSCW is a premier venue for presenting research in the design … Continue reading →

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Advice to a Non-Technical CEO of a Software Startup

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

One of the challenges of an early stage software startup is whether to have a non-technical CEO who has a good set of relationships with prospective customers, or to have a CEO who really understands the technology and the art … Continue reading →

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