Interaction16 Redux Nederland

Program Friday, 20 May 2016

13:00Registration

13:30 – 13:45Conference recap — Part 1

Herjen Oldenbeuving takes you along on his personal Interaction16 trip. He will share the most useful, interesting and inspiring moments of the conference and the related social events.

13:45 – 14:15The Art of Drawing — Learning from the Masters

How can a course in the art of drawing from the 1860s bring insights to the future craft of interaction design? Come listen to Kathryn Parkes to find out.

14:15 – 15:00Designing for Perspectives « video »

We in the west have long had the bad habit of confusing our individual perspective with objective truth. This often shows up in design as “perspective collision” — when something that has been designed reveals the designer's limitations and biases. This also shows up inside organizations as the “quantification bias” — valuing the measurable over the immeasurable. Global tech ethnographer Tricia Wang traces the roots of perspective collision from 16th century Venice to the Oculus Rift, and shows that in the age of Big Data, designers have to break out from the single-perspective mindset to generate perspective rich contexts, and one way to do do this is to integrate Big Data with what she calls, Thick Data.

15:00 – 15:30Coffee break

15:30 – 15:45Conference recap — Part 2

Yohan Creemers will share the emerging trends and upcoming challenges for our design discipline as could be heard at the Interaction16 conference.

15:45 – 16:15Interaction Designers vs Algorithms « video with live Q&A »

Are your design skills about to become irrelevant in an age of AI? Or can you reinvent yourself in time? You might have heard that smart algorithms are the next silver bullet. Data scientists promise that algorithms will read customers' data and magically predict their needs, bringing them the information they want, when they want it. In this talk Giles Colborne will look what algorithms are good for, and where they fall down.

16:15 – 17:00Closure Experiences

— Why a simple goodbye could help climate change

Over generations we have distanced ourselves from meaningful closure experiences thanks to our lifestyles increasing in comfort, the church weakening and medicine advancing. This has seemingly freed us from the shackles of the ultimate closure experience - death - and sanctioning our personal pursuit of heaven on earth in the form of consumption. The consequences of our behaviour results in a changing climate, industries fined billions for mis-selling and individuals casually eroding their personal online reputations.

As designers we are active in the creation of services, products and digital products; making them attractive, engaging and usable for consumers, but we often overlook concluding these experiences for the user in a responsible way. Joe Macleod offers a model to frame this change.

17:00 – 18:00Drinks & Discussion

Do as 1,000 interaction designers in Helsinki did during Interaction Week 2016: grab a drink and discuss the future of our design discipline.