Tag Archives: research

I heart frameworks!

 

When we tackle a new design challenge, we are constantly faced with making sense of new domains, complex information, and huge data sets – in a very short amount of time. Imagine trying to understand how to help diabetes patients … Continue reading →

 

How-to: Cheap POV video for mobile phone studies

 

Staring over your participant’s shoulder isn’t creating the most natural situation when testing user experiences. You get less than ideal viewing angles, participants can’t get into a flow and it’s hard to get good video of it all. So how … Continue reading →

 

Nikki Pfarr

 

Nikki joined Artefact after a brief flirtation with academia, as a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. Her research focused on using technology to facilitate decision making and encourage healthy behavior change. However, she quickly realized that many … Continue reading →

 

No more bad workshops

 

Over the course of my career I have lost a good year of my life that I will never get back.  I lost time to poorly run meetings without clear goals.  I lost time to product “brainstorm” workshops that yielded … Continue reading →

 

From Stale to Fresh

 

When we’re about to kick off a project with a new set of clients, we think about how to conduct the first meeting most effectively. How do we gain consensus on the goals and deliverables while extracting the client’s knowledge … Continue reading →

 

Adjusting your belief system

 

Good research should change our thinking. People often think that sample size is an indictor of good research. There are many other more important factors that determine whether research is any good. Regardless, I’m often asked, what’s the right sample … Continue reading →

 

Seeking participants for paid research study about entertainment and why it matters to you

 

Artefact is conducting a study on fans of different forms of entertainment. We are interested in understanding the activities you do in anticipation of going to or watching an entertainment event; during the event itself; and afterwards to remember or … Continue reading →

 

Talk: Design Rules from Visual Perception

 

I’ll be giving a talk at Puget Sound SIGCHI tomorrow (Thursday the 24th of June). Stop by! They’ve got it listed as, “Neuroscience of Visual Perception,” but that’s not the actual title. Description Artists and designers learn and intuit many … Continue reading →

 

A dialog about magazines: Popular Science

 

Among other things, Christopher Konrad and Martijn van Tilburg read magazines for Artefact. MvT: With all these companies trying to come up with the next big thing in print, it would be interesting to look at what they are concocting. … Continue reading →

 

ID Students

 

I attended RecruitID at the Institute of Design a couple years ago. It’s a recruiting event. Employers interview former and current students for employment. It’s where I met Gabe Biller. It’s also where I met Nikki Pfarr, our 2009 summer … Continue reading →