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Interaction Design

Content by Eugenia Bertulis and Haig Armen. Includes key resources on accessibility, affect, behavioural elements, big data, design for screens, design ethics, game design, design history, human-computer interaction, information architecture, and more

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The website for the Interaction Design Association.  Launched in 2003, IxDA is a member-supported organization, “focusing on interaction design issues for the practitioner, no matter their level of expertise.” –From the website.  Includes information on local Ix communities, Ix events around the world, videos, podcasts, job listings, and more.

 

This site features online articles by a community of UX practitioners on topics such as the business of UX, developing software user experiences for the web and mobile devices, product and web user design, accessibility and usability challenges, product design and development processes, and more.  Also features reviews of UX products, services, and training.

 

“The UX Booth is a publication by and for the user experience community. Our readership consists mostly of beginning-to-intermediate user experience and interaction designers, but anyone interested in making the web a better place to be is welcome. If you’re interested, join us and discuss best practices and trending topics, or share your experiences.”--UX Booth website.  

 

Presented by the Interaction Design Foundation, a site that brings together texts by “ leading designers, bestselling authors, and Ivy League professors together to create open-source, free-to-access textbooks on UX design. This is the world’s most comprehensive compendium of design knowledge, made available to everyone around the world.”--From the website.

 

http://www.creativeapplications.net/

From a community of practitioners who work at the intersection of art, media and technology.  

This site hosts more than 3,500 project profiles, essays, interviews and reviews.  Its Education section hosts tutorials at all levels with code examples and downloads and the Jobs Archive has listed over 800 jobs.  
 

https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/technology-ethics/

Website of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.  The Center “addresses issues arising from transhumanism and human enhancement ethics, catastrophic risk and ethics, religion and technology ethics, and space ethics” while offering “thousands of pages of material in many fields of applied ethics.”--From the website. 

Thought Leaders

Farai Madzima - https://faraimadzima.com/
Frank Chimero - https://frankchimero.com/
Christian Crumlish - http://mediajunkie.com/
Bret Victor - http://worrydream.com/

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