There are books that you don't realise are about the future, until the future catches up with you. Books that are so absurd, difficult to read and, at the same time, so much fun that they hook you and force you to continue until the end, even though you know that you won't get anything clear when you finish them. I'm talking about [...]
I continue my personal re-reading and reinterpretation of the texts of Robert Venturi and Denisse Scott Brown, which I find increasingly appropriate and inspiring for reflecting on the origins of current approaches to Interaction Design and User Experience. In the mid-1960s, Venturi and Scott Brown rebelled against the [...]
I would like to recommend a couple of books that I think are essential on design methodology, a classic and a novelty, separated by almost 40 years. The classic: The Universal Traveller, is a little jewel of the hippie culture, almost an incunabulum, handmade in 1972 by its two authors, Don [...]
One of the most common aspects among those of us who work in Interaction Design or User Experience is that we are fascinated by science fiction. What I hadn't been able to corroborate is that the attraction was reciprocated by the authors of the genre. In Shaping Things, Bruce Sterling confesses his [...]
“I am me and my circumstance, and if I don't save it, I don't save myself”. Frivolising José Ortega y Gaset's maxim, an interface is a small circumstance, a two-dimensional space in which we project ourselves and through which we have to move. An environment that, just like our culture, [...]