Contents

The Democratization of Design

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No Pain, No Gain: Pleasure and Suffering in Technologies

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Anything Is a Fridge: The Implications of Everyday Designers

Cover Story

Citizen-Centered Design (Slowly) Revolutionizes the Media and Experience of U.S. Elections

Sustainably Ours

The New Energy Interface

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Web 2.0 in Government

Under Development

The Six Habits of Highly Effective "Humanitarian" Projects

PS and QS

Research Automation as Technomethodological Pixie Dust

Breaking Traditional Boundaries of Interaction

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In Search of Models and Visions for the Web Age

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Transcending Disciplinary Boundaries in Interaction Design

The Way I See it

Systems Thinking: A Product is more than the Product

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Myth of the Design Process

Exploring the Future

On Modeling

Building Support for Use-Based Design into Hardware Products

Lifelong Interactions

Data Mining for Educational "Gold"

Timelines

Reflections on the Future of iSchools from Inspired Junior Faculty

True Tales

We Are Living in a Sci-Fi World

(P)Review

Old School, New School: Teaching Interaction Design in Manhattan

Interactions Cafe

On Creation and Consumption

Interactions - September/October 2009 Index