Archive for the ‘Interface Design’ Category

Teaching as performance in the electronic classroom

Shoshana Zuboff’s ideas on how managerial knowledge is transformed by technology help us understand how certain kinds of knowledge resist being textualized. These ideas help us understand the effects of new teaching technologies in terms of a long–standing struggle between two views of knowledge: knowledge as performance and knowledge as thing.Read the Full Story

Interface Design: In Your Face or Interface? by Vanessa Haakenson, M.A.

Successful products have at least one commonality, good interface design. As Don Norman says, “What’s wrong with interfaces? The question, for one. The interface is the wrong place to begin. It implies you already have done all the rest and now you want to patch it up to make it pretty for the user. That […]