Michigan UXPA Launches July 10: The Emotional Life of Internet Things with Pam Pavliscak

Pam Pavliscak on stage

The Michigan chapter of the User Experience Professionals Association (Michigan UXPA) is launching their first event with special guest Pam Pavliscak, speaking about our emotional relationship with our Internet things.

On July 10, 2017, Pavliscak will discuss our emotional interactions with technology, how our technology knows what we do, but currently doesn’t understand how we feel. Continue reading Michigan UXPA Launches July 10: The Emotional Life of Internet Things with Pam Pavliscak

A Second Look at Appear.in for Video Conferencing

create a room link with appear.in

I was out bird watching Sunday evening, but I didn’t want to miss our Michigan User Experience Professionals’ Association conference call.

So I used the call-in option for the video conferencing application.

Sat in my car on a dirt road as sunshine flickered through the tall 75-foot-tall trees, peered at the email message for the call-in number, and called in. Continue reading A Second Look at Appear.in for Video Conferencing

How We Can Find Ourselves in Data [TED Video]

Giorgia Lupi

In her TEDNYC Design Lab talk in March 2017, information designer Giorgia Lupi discussed how we make sense of the data in our everyday life.

And that sometimes to make sense of data, we have to forget about it. And see through it. Continue reading How We Can Find Ourselves in Data [TED Video]