🦆 Interaction Nerds by UXA
Good morning! We have a fresh & exclusive poll on BHCI Courses from students and faculty members — as well as internship experience.
👋 TGIF — Greetings from the Interaction Nerds
Welcome back! This week, we interviewed students & faculty members about their opinions on HCI courses. We hope their perspectives will support you in kickstarting your planning for next semester.📚
We also invited a few juniors & seniors to share their internship experiences. We hope their stories could inspire you and help demystify HCI-related career potentials.🪴
And don’t forget to take your weekly dose of what's up in UX.🧘
✌️ The Student’s Voice — Explore HCI courses with Yumi Sato
Believe it or not, Fall Registration is less than a month away.🤦 Have yinz started exploring and thinking about classes to take?
This week, we reached out to a student expert — Yumi Sato, a senior with a primary major in HCI — to guide you explore HCI electives. 💆
In fact, today is Yumi’s special day! We are happy to share the fantastic news, and we wish you a happy and fun-filled birthday! 🥳
👌 The Educator’s Vision — Explore HCI courses with Prof. Raelin Musuraca
Considering taking Service Design (SD / 05-452), Digital Service Innovation (DSI / 05-470), or User-Centered Research and Evaluation (UCRE / 05-410) in future semesters? Or looking for insights on how to communicate & collaborate with graduate students?
We brought some popular questions to our one and only Prof. Raelin Musuraca — the wizard behind the design of these three widely favored HCI courses noted above 😎!
Now give it up for Raelin and explore how to ace HCI courses.
👍 The Future Practitioner’s View — Explore HCI-related internship with Valeria, Rachel, and Daisy
Did you enjoy our collection of HCI practitioners’ days in their life from our last and very first issue? Want to know a bit more about internship opportunities, the application process, and first-hand experiences & takeaways?
Let’s hear what some amazing BHCI students say about their journey to their internship position and, even better, a close look at their work experience!
... It taught me a lot. It made me realize sometimes I overestimate how much things are like but looking back at it, it doesn't. I took that mindset into school because sometimes I'd be very overwhelmed, and then now I'm like, well, couldn't be worse (than the code base). So that experience was a mindset changer.
— Valeria Cordova Mulvany
Having that role and being with that type of team, I think I get to see how things function in the real world, especially at a company like Ford. Ford has such a long tradition of bringing design thinking to the forefront of their company. And I was a part of a team that's supposed to help do that. It was a good experience learning how to persuade people to understand what human-centered design is.
— Daisy Gollis
... My manager and a lot of other co-workers set me down … That put a lot of things into perspective. So I stopped second-guessing myself. If there's any pushback on my design decisions or the research I did, I stood by my decisions and thoroughly explained why I thought this was the best route moving forward. And I think that it made me realize that I was chosen here; I am a designer, and I know what I'm doing.
— Rachel Lee
🤌 The Recommendations — An article a day keeps the doctors away
How user research at Spotify is getting ahead of shifting trends in global culture
Who Gets What ― and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design
🤟 The End — Stay tuned and dive in
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“Perhaps humans’ core function is love. If love were the central practice of a new generation of organizers and spiritual leaders, it would have a massive impact on what was considered organizing. If the goal was to increase the love, rather than winning or dominating a constant opponent, I think we could actually imagine liberation from constant oppression.”
— Adrienne Maree Brown, from her book “Emergent Strategy”
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Thanks for reading this week’s Interaction Nerds by the CMU User Experience Association! The editors behind this work are Neeha Kurelli, Sunniva Liu, Rebecca Jiang, and Bill Guo.
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