Resources for Educators in Interaction Design

Resources for Educators in Interaction Design

All attendees from the Interaction Design Education Summit 2018

Isabelle Sperano, Education Summit Co-Chair, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada

Idea by: Anala Farias Acuña, CIID

During Interaction Design Education Summit 2018, attendees suggested their favorite resource for interaction designers. Here is the list. Feel free to add some in the comments. Thank you all for your participation!

Read

• Christopher Alexander’ s work
• How to Make Sense of Any Mess: Information Architecture for Everybody, by Abby Covert
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood, by James Gleick
• Looking for Information, by Donald Case
• The feelings of the Prince Charles, by Liv Strömquist
• 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, by Matthew Frederick
• The Ecology of Attention, by Yves Citton
• Discussing Design Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique, by Adam Connor, Aaron Irizarry
• Articulating Design Decisions Communicate with Stakeholders, Keep Your Sanity, and Deliver the Best User Experience, by Tom Greever
• This Is Service Design Doing Applying Service Design Thinking in the Real World, by Marc Stickdorn, Markus Hormess, Adam Lawrence, Jakob Schneider
• The Mushroom at the End of the World — On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins, by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
• Discourse, Consciousness, and Time, by Wallace Chafe
• Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention, by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• How to Design Social Systems (Without Causing Depression and War), by Joe Edelman:

How to Design Social Systems (Without Causing Depression and War)
Designing for meaningful interactions and human valuesmedium.com

• Post Secret Blog:

PostSecret
The Secret’s Out! PostSecret: The Show is an emotional experience. by Erika Thrasher Two couches. Three stools. One…postsecret.com

Learn

• Favorite syllabus: RISD : Computer Utopias
• School for poetic computation: http://sfpc.io/
• Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design: http://ciid.dk/education/summer-school/ciid-summer-school-costa-rica/workshops/
• The learning of creative learning: http://learn.media.mit.edu/lcl/

Watch

• Daughters of Destiny (on Netflix)
• Data for the People: How to Make Our Post-Privacy Economy Work for You by Andreas Weigend
• Arte programmata:

Listen

• Eluvium’s new Album:

• Tonya Harding by Sufjan Stevens:

Other

• Learn about your students (eg. ask about what they did over the summer break)
• Students projects from California College of Art (Interaction design program): http://www.ixd.cca.edu/
• Collaborative research platform Are.na: https://www.are.na/