Design practice ethnography

Design practice ethnography

Through following the work of interaction designers at three San Francisco consultancies, my dissertation asks: What do interaction designers make, and how do they make it?
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Communicating Actionable User Research

Communicating Actionable User Research

            “Human-centered design is an approach to innovation in which user research drives design decisions by providing an understanding of end users. In practice, different people, teams, or even companies manage each step of the design process, making communication of user research results a critical activity.  Based on an empirical study of...
Spring 2013: Design Research at UC Berkeley

Spring 2013: Design Research at UC Berkeley

I’m teaching the School of Information’s UX research class in spring 2013. Syllabus here.

Thinking, Watching, and Drawing Motion

Guest lecture, Expressive Motion in Art and Design, a graduate class in UC Berkeley’s Architecture dept.

How I learned to stop worrying and love the deliverable

Goodman, E. 2012. How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Deliverable. interactions, September/October 2012.

Design For X?: Distribution Choices and Ethical Design

Goodman, E. and Vertesi, J. 2012. Design For X?: Distribution Choices and Ethical Design. In Proc. CHI EA ’12: 81–90.

From Park Bench to Satellite: Designing from the Ground Up

Keynote. Industrial Design Society of America conference, 2011

Handwaving and the real work of design

Goodman, E. 2011. Handwaving and the Real Work of Design. interactions, 18(4): 40 – 44.
From Garments to Gardens: Negotiating Material Relationships Online and ‘By Hand.’

From Garments to Gardens: Negotiating Material Relationships Online and ‘By Hand.’

Goodman, E. and Rosner, D. 2011. From Garments to Gardens: Negotiating Material Relationships Online and ‘By Hand.’ In Proc. CHI ’11: 2257-2266.

Understanding interaction design practices

Goodman, E., Stolterman, E., and Wakkary, R. 2011. Understanding interaction design practices. In Proc. CHI ‘11: 1061-1070.

Data as process

Talk, Data & Cities Conference, Stamen Design, San Francisco – 2011
City Centered: A festival of locative media and urban community

City Centered: A festival of locative media and urban community

In 2010, I co-organized City Centered, a free, three-day festival of locative media and urban community in San Francisco. The event included demonstrations and installations in the Tenderloin district, a symposium in the Mission district and community training workshops. The art festival, which I co-curated, included contributions from MIT’s Senseable Cities Lab and Stamen Design....

HCI, communities and politics

DiSalvo, C., Light, A., Hirsch, T., Le Dantec, C.A., Goodman, E.  and Hill, K. 2010. HCI, communities and politics. In Proc CHI EA ’10: 3151-3154.