In winter quarter, the department of Human Centered Design & Engineering hosts a 10-week seminar series on User Experience (UX), where we welcome industry experts to speak about current issues and research in the field. Talks are open to members of the UW community to attend. Find the full schedule online at www.hcde.uw.edu… Future/Forward: Landscapes of Opportunity at the Edge of the Virtual World
As computation spills out of our tablets and cell phones into devices of every kind, our lives have increasingly become a platform themselves, our very heartbeats inflecting the powerful intersection of the digital and physical world. Looking across the next decade, how will the technologies we design shape our human experience? In this talk Amazon Principal UX Designer, Ana Pinto da Silva explores the complex, generative landscape of opportunity emerging at the intersection of virtual and physical space, offering a consideration of what it means to be truly human in a technological world as we pass the quarter mark of the 21st Century. Ana Pinto da Silva is a designer, technologist and community builder dedicating to creating products and services that define new landscapes of opportunity for people world-wide. |