design
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Leading Design Conference — 2025 Reflections
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the Leading Design Conference at the Barbican Centre in London. I first heard about the event through our accessibility research partners at Fable, who were among the main sponsors. Because most of our collaboration happens online (Fable are based in Canada) it felt like the perfect chance…
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Doraemon’s Gadget Lab: Unpacking Human Needs and Interaction Design in Speculative Technology
Doraemon’s Gadget Lab (Tran) is a playful research paper from CHI 2025, held in Yokohama, Japan. Having grown up watching Japanese cartoon show Doraemon, I did not expect to encounter HCI analysis of its gadgets in the CHI proceedings. Tran analyses 379 of Doraemon’s gadgets, categorising them into 33 subcategories and 10 higher-level groupings, to examine the…
Brian Grellmann 