Matthew Garvin
UX Research, Design, Strategy
Author: Mtthwgrvn
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Designing a mobile app that is clear and easy to use can be challenging, but it’s crucial to the success of your app. Users expect apps to be intuitive and straightforward, with a clean and organized layout that guides them through the app’s features and functionality. In this blog post, we’ll explore some best practices…
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Bartenders are some of the most creative people in the world when it comes to designing and crafting delicious drinks. Bartending requires a deep understanding of customer needs, preferences, and behaviors – all essential elements of great design. Here are six reasons why bartenders are experts in human-centered design.
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Assets-based design as a counter-hegemonic approach to HCI
We can look to what has become known as “third paradigm HCI” for design insights into supporting marginalized communities. In the following pages, we review some of the third-paradigm HCI literature and ask how it can support assets-based design.
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PredICTing the Future
Technological visions of the future generally come in one of two flavors. In a utopian dream, technology seamlessly integrates into the fabric of everyday life. On the other end of the spectrum lie visions of dystopia, often centered around the havoc a sentient artificial intelligence can cause when it inevitably determines that humans are our…
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Doing theory as an information scholar
Having completed undergraduate work in one of the last four-field anthropology departments, we often say that the four-field approach has one foot firmly planted in the sciences (biology, archaeology) and the other in the humanities (culture, linguistics). Taken together, these four lenses are thought to enable the holistic perspective. Yet, I find myself more skeptical…
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Special Announcement
Greetings, If you follow my social media, then you are likely already aware. I’ve known for a few weeks, but I’ve been so busy I didn’t make time to write about it. Considering the announcement, I think it’s going to be important that I make regular contributions to this blog, so let’s start here. It’s…
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Ethnographic Encounters of the HCI kind in Bioastronautics
Research Plan –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Problem Statement Bioastronautics is a branch of aerospace engineering that specializes in the study and support of life in space. Bioastronautics researchers are interested in the biological, behavioral, medical, and material domains of organisms in spaceflight. Technological advances have increasingly led to a deepened interest and urgency in the domain of space…
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I’m a Storyteller: Modeling Users, and Crafting Analogies for Better Design
I use analogies. I’m constantly on the lookout for the perfect analogy to describe this phenomena or that. For example, how do you describe culture to someone? If you go to the dictionary and recite: the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group -(see: Dictionary.com (Links to an external…
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