Bill’s scientific contributions

... After his studies in architecture (MA in Design Theory from the University of California Los Angeles, UCLA, and a BA in Architecture from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur), Ranjit Makkuni started his investigation of computer interfaces while at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 1970 as a division of the Xerox Corporation, PARC has pioneered explorations in the interaction design field and shaped the foundation for important hardware and software developments such as graphical user interface (GUI), object-oriented programming and ubiquitous computing among others (Moggridge 2007). ...

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Syncretic technologies: Ranjit Makkuni and The Planet Health Museum in Delhi

... Interactions cannot always be designed based on typical human behaviour. Yet analogies from the familiar physical world give orientation, as showed the success of the desktop metaphor for Xerox (Moggridge, 2007a). We saw that predictable behaviour is not necessarily what users enjoy. ...

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Bringing the user experience to early product conception : From idea generation to idea evaluation

... Moggridge [2] is one of the pioneering authors to use the term «interaction design». The author argues, based on his perception of the new demands of the design market, that there was an opportunity to create such a new area of design that would meet this new context. ...

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Prototyping and Testing Throughout all the Design Process as a Methodology for Developing Interaction Design Projects