Understanding the Past to Prepare for the Future
A short talk and discussion with Rosenfeld Media Community. We discussing the emergence of the new personal computer and some of the women involved in defining these new experiences, and I review the disruption this new tool made to the world of graphic design and publishing with tools like the Macintosh, Adobe Photoshop, Quark Express and Adobe Illustrator. It was a time of existential change to an industry. I show the trailer for the documentary Graphic Means - which is about these changes to the printing industry. This is not unlike what we are experiencing today with the emergence of AI in all our tools. What lessons might be learned from the past as we look to the future? How might we future-proof ourselves in this new world?
Lost Women of the Internet Era –
Dot com boom to Social Media
Presentation of a new talk on the Women in IXD from the Internet Era 1992-2000. Short 1/2 hour version done for Chicago UX Camp May 20, 2023
The Lost Women of Interaction Design: Early Women in IXD
Stanford's Human-Computer Interaction Seminar
February 24th, 2023.
Corrections: Terry Roberts graduated within the CS program with the first HCI focused PhD and finished in 1979, officially graduating (walking) in June 1980. She worked on her dissertation from 1977-1979, not 77-78 as I mention in the talk.
Xerox in Palo Alto contained both PARC and a product division. Doris Wells-Papanek worked for the product division and not PARC but interacted with PARC people regularly. Terry Roberts spent time in PARC while working on her dissertation but was hired into the product division to work on the Star after she graduated.
Lost Women of IXD
Design History Society
Hidden Histories: Gender in Design Seminar Series
Selected paper for presentation
April 2022