IXD BLAST From the Past #3: Institut du Monde Arabe (1987)

IXD BLAST From the Past #3: Institut du Monde Arabe (1987)

While this isn’t classically interactive, it is an active experience in a really interesting way. On approaching the entrance to the Institu du Monde Arabe in Paris, the South-facing glass wall of the building, which is also part of the entrance courtyard, appears to...
Experience Design 1.2

Experience Design 1.2

Experience Design 1.2 (2023) By Nathan Shedroff ISBN: 9780982233900 6″x9″ 308 pages, 4-color It is time to update my original book, Experience Design 1, again. I updated the content, format, and examples in 2009, in Experience Design 1.1, but I felt it...
Interview: Brenda Laurel

Interview: Brenda Laurel

Nathan/ You have so much experience teaching and practicing design research at a level that is still rare these days. What do you consider design research and where and why is it appropriate? Brenda/ You can break it down into qualitative and quantitative or look at...

Make it So in Paris

My talk at the d.school Paris’ D.EVENT conference this past Summer on how science fiction is one of the ways we use creativity to think about the...
Aspen Design Conference 1981

Aspen Design Conference 1981

I just found this poster online and it reminded me that my design journey really started at this conference in the Colorado Rookies in 1981. I hadn’t heard of the conference but I went on the recommendation of our family friend, Karen Laubhan (who had attended a...