{"id":2430,"date":"2017-10-01T11:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-01T15:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ccsmfa.wordpress.com\/?p=2430"},"modified":"2021-01-18T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T23:59:42","slug":"alan-kay-to-give-lecture-to-ccs-ixd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pangaro.com\/designconversation\/2017\/10\/alan-kay-to-give-lecture-to-ccs-ixd\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Kay gives lecture to CCS IxD"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dynabook\"
From Alan Kay’s “A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages”, 1972<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It would be tl;dr<\/a>\u00a0for a blogpost to explain the originality and contributions that Alan Kay<\/a> has made to interaction design. We’re fortunate that he delivered an extended real-time lecture by video<\/a> on October 9, 2017, to grad and undergrad students, hosted by the\u00a0Interaction Design Evolution course<\/a>, a.k.a. Studio III in the MFA Interaction Design<\/a>\u00a0program at CCS<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alan has been deeply influencing interaction design from the time he conceived what we now call the iPad\u2014though his concept went much further and was explicitly a learning tool. And he\u00a0named it more descriptively: the\u00a0Dynabook (1968-1972)<\/a>. He had a relationship with Steve Jobs and famously said that he thought the original Mac from 1984 was “the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.” Wait… what? Yup.<\/p>\n

Alan has always displayed such originality and penetrating capacity for critique. His TeD talk from 2007<\/a> is one of many great examples. This very recent profile on him in FASTCOMPANY<\/a>, arriving at the time of the announcement of the iPhone X<\/a>, is titled “The Father Of Mobile Computing Is Not Impressed.” Yup. In that deep interview he makes the same point intended by the CCS MFA\u00a0Interaction Design Evolution course:<\/a>\u00a0Not knowing the history of IxD means you won’t be as good a designer of its future…<\/p>\n

Here’s what he says in\u00a0FASTCOMPANY\u00a0about Sir Tim Berners-Lee<\/a>, inventor of the World Wide Web\u2014Berners-Lee was a physicist and didn’t know the work of Doug Englebart<\/a>, so Alan says: “And so, [Berners-Lee’s] conception of the World Wide Web was infinitely tinier and weaker and terrible.” Yikes. Fabulous. And don’t miss his comment that HTML5 is like “reinventing the flat tire.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would be tl;dr\u00a0for a blogpost to explain the originality and contributions that Alan Kay has made to interaction design. We’re fortunate that he delivered an extended real-time lecture by video on October 9, 2017, to grad and undergrad students, hosted by the\u00a0Interaction Design Evolution course, a.k.a. Studio III in the MFA Interaction Design\u00a0program at … <\/p>\n

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