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  • What Does It Mean to Put the User at the Center of Your Process?

    Last week I lead a UX design workshop with the University of Georgia's Graphic Design Program. We explored what it means to apply UX methods to understand user needs and then scope…
    Workshops/Lectures
  • Before there was Illustrator

    How can we use computation to augment our mental abilities? This was Vannevar Bush’s query in 1945 when he wrote  “As We May Think.” Two of his ideas: the Memex: (also here) a…
    Uncategorized
  • A Bag of Beacons: Enabling Personal Mobility

    This fall, the NC State graphic design junior studio spent two weeks collaborating with the SAS accessibility team. The goal: remove barriers to independent personal mobility for people with visual impairments or…
    Inclusive Design, Workshops/Lectures
  • The Unboxing: A Project with Sealed Air

    In my Special Topics Studio this semester, NC State graphic design seniors worked with Sealed Air to reimagine the secondary packaging unboxing experience. As part of their user-centered research process, the students…
    Funded Research
  • Yerkes Observatory

    Making Astronomy Accessible

    This week, Alexandra Grossi (NCSU MGD '17) and I travelled to Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin. There we met with a team of researchers and educators committed to making the study of astronomy…
    Funded Research, Inclusive Design
  • Exploring Conversational Interface with SAS Analytics

    What is the role of Natural Language in SAS products? This year's NCSU graphic design seniors took on this question through an 8-week collaboration with SAS Analytics. Over the course of the…
    A.I. / Machine Learning, Funded Research
  • VR. No One Can Tell You, You Are Doing It Wrong. Yet

    Interested in designing user interfaces for virtual reality? Take a look at my recent Design Observer article on the topic, written with NCSU senior graphic design major, Madeline Bone. In-world, gaze-based, audio,…
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  • What Does That Say? A Low Vision Design Workshop at Drake

    A few years ago I traveled to Des Moines to work with graphic design students at Drake University. We spent two days discussing, concepting, prototyping and testing data visualizations for low vision…
    Inclusive Design, Workshops/Lectures
  • images of hi-fi interfaces created for the project: an interactive large tooth, an interactive display, an app, a CUI, a soundscape

    Re-envisioning the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’s Acro Exhibition as an Autism Friendly Space

    Last semester the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences asked NC State graphic designer seniors in my special topics studio to take on a complex problem. One of their key exhibitions—the Acrocanthosaurus Exhibition—was not an autism…
    Inclusive Design
  • interface for visualizing tides. text and tides white reversed out from black. red patterns indicated

    How might designers create data visualizations for low-vision users?

    Undergraduate graphic design students at NC State University collaborated with SAS Analytics to answer this question as they explored how SAS products might be made accessible to a range of low vision…
    Funded Research, Inclusive Design
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Helen Armstrong

Prof of Graphic & Experience Design at NC State University.
Researching interface design, human-machine teaming, digital rights, & accessibility.
Author of BIG DATA, BIG DESIGN.

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