Going to mark my future posts with a content warning of “boring”
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Stephen Farrugia
@fasterandworse@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Experienced user. HCI design researcher.
While its alive: https://twitter.com/fasterandworse
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Joined October 27, 2022
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It doesn't have to matter but when you say "what's best for users is best for the business" replace "users" with "people" and see how it feels
Up front honesty about design systems from 1990
Just learned on stream that there was a European lab Xerox PARC called EuroPARC 🤯
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Reading two ACM SIGCHI articles.
1. Taking Design Seriously: Exploring Techniques Useful in HCI Design. John Karat & Tom Dayton - https://doi.org/10.1145/122475.122480
2. Social and psychological factors influencing the design of office communications systems. Susan F. Ehrlich - https://doi.org/10.1145/30851.275651
Tech design tends to use existing artefacts and design people friendly ways to interpret them rather than starting from people friendliness and requiring tech to deliver that however possible
Live now!
Reading two ACM SIGCHI papers about HCI design from 1990.
1. Issues in Multimedia Interface Design: Media Integration and Interface Agents. By Brenda Laurel, Tim Oren, and Abbe Don - https://doi.org/10.1145/97243.97265
2. Taking Design Seriously: Exploring Techniques Useful in HCI Design. By John Karat & Tom Dayton - https://doi.org/10.1145/122475.122480
So any new followers know what to expect. I am a HCI & Interface Design researcher who is currently experimenting by doing my research work on a Twitch stream. This means I'm reading papers out loud and having conversations and rants about what I read. So far it has been amazing, to say the least. I post a link and summary of what I'm reading each time I go live, but my channel is here: https://www.twitch.tv/fasterandworse
I hope you can drop by some time and join the fun.