10 Lost Women in the Emerging Discipline of Interaction Design
Interaction designer and educator, Erin Malone, takes a look back to the days of the emergent discipline of interaction design and the role of women on this journey in her new book In Through the Side Door, Fifty Years of Women in Interaction Design. In this talk she will be diving into the emergence of the role through short profiles of women paving the way for the discipline through design for the new graphical user interface, establishment of user research labs and protocols and interaction design outside of the personal computer. Set against the backdrop of the 2nd wave of feminism and changing laws in the United States providing working women new opportunities and protections, she will share how women made their own way into technology spaces usually reserved for men.
About Erin
Erin Malone is an author, design historian, educator and a recently paused senior level user experience designer and researcher who has spent her career deconstructing complex systems, designing web and software applications, social experiences and leading experience design teams. She is currently a professor and chair of the interaction design BFA program at California College of the Arts.
She is the author of the new book from MIT Press In Through the Side Door: Fifty Years of Women in Interaction Design and co-author of both editions of the book Designing Social Interfacesfor O'Reilly Media. In her spare time she is a printmaker and letterpress printer at 8 Paw Press.
Learn more about Erin's work here - https://womenofixd.com
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