It's Hard to Work Human

July 8, 2014 Carolyn Chandler

A GCE student tells the story of her concept during an end-of-course presentation.

We took "Adventures in Experience Design" to a local high school and held a 6-week course. Surprisingly, we found the hardest part for students wasn't generating new ideas, or choosing and forming the best ones. It was something that touched the core of their fears and insecurities.

Making Mindfulness a Part of Education

March 6, 2014 Carolyn Chandler

Last year, I was honored to participate in UX for Good, an organization that brings leading User Experience Designers together to focus on complex social challenges. In last year's challenge we partnered with the Dalai Lama Center in Vancouver in order to explore this question:

How can we make mindfulness training part of the education of every child?

Sonic Adventures

February 9, 2014 Carolyn Chandler

A little while back, Jim Jacoby and Jim Cohen interviewed me about Adventures in Experience Design, and it ended up being a lovely little overview of the inspiration for the book.

Finding Balance

January 17, 2014 Carolyn Chandler

Aaron Irizarry, Joel Beukelman and I chatted about balance, midlife decisions, and paparazzi weddings in Namibia in this recently posted episode of THE BLNCE.

Two Student Perspectives

January 16, 2014 Carolyn Chandler

Two students from the fall quarter Applied Interaction Design class talk about their experience with the craft practitioners and mentors who visited, as well as their instructor.

A Toast for 2014

January 3, 2014 Carolyn Chandler

Ring in the new year with some thoughts about wine and its language.