UCLIC 2016

2 things…

UCLIC

and

After UCLIC

Derm McNally

Technology Changes; People Don’tUCLIC 2003/4

No iPhone, no tablets, no wearables, no augmented reality apps, no gestural interfaces (Leap Motion, X Box), no Oculus Rift, no IPTV (Netflix, Sky on demand), no Siri or Cortana and when we connected devices such as cameras to the internet it wasn’t called the Internet of Things

Design Principles“Design Principles have not changed over the years” - Don Norman

Affordances and signifiers...

The secret of HCI….3 intersecting circles

Who are you?

HCI UX

Psychology Development

Design

Business AnalystsProject Managers…

Should designers code?

Should psychologists be Photoshop experts?

If you believe in unicorns they should at least know HTML and CSS, Visual Basic for financial applications, X-Code for iOS, Java for Android, Python for Raspberry Pi, Arduino, soldering, cabinet making and carpentry.

Principles are more enduring than Skills

But Omnicorns don’t exist(neither do unicorns)

HCI UX

Psychology Development

Design

Business

Wearables

Behaviour Change not addressed

Connected Devices“We now have very smart devices, stupidly done.” Don Norman

TV StreamingInformation Architecture - It’s still a thing!

The Downside

Complicated(bad!)

Complex(good!)

Class of ‘04

The world is your <insert shellfish>

UCLIC opens many doors…

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“Oh yeah, it’s worth it”