https://hciforstartups.org/ Skip to content CMU | HCI for Startups CMU 05-499A/05-899A Close collapsed * What did you learn? * Book office hours * Schedule of topics + Readings * Syllabus * Home Menu expanded Featured HCI for Startups HCI for Startups is a new course that will help you learn and apply techniques in human-computer interaction to the challenges of building new (potentially commercially viable) technology products and services. If you are a CMU student, you should enroll, and participate in person Tues and Thurs: 03:05 PM - 04:25 PM at GHC 4211. If you are an Internet visitor, please follow along online. Most materials are made available online. More 5 Reflections from teaching HCI for Startups Every time I teach a course, I am convinced that I have learned more than I have taught. In the Fall of 2021, I taught the first edition of HCI for Startups at Carnegie Mellon. The class helps students learn how to apply ideas from the field of human-computer interaction to small, early-stage, ventures. Students...More Final project Here is the form link!More What disruption gets wrong Due Oct 31 as a comment below. This is the second article in the space of innovation and disruption. What is Wrong with Disruption? Note that this article in many ways does not view innovation as necessarily disruptive. In your comment, contrast this view with the Christensen article you are also reading.More What is Disruptive Innovation? Due Oct 31 as a comment below. This is one of the two readings required around disruption and innovation in technology. I suggest you do both readings together, so you can contrast these two accounts of innovation. This reading is for CMU students only, and should not be redistributed. [PDF]More Assignment 2: Story listening and Concept video Due date: Oct 24 (milestone for Track 2 due Oct 17). Learning objectives Listen to user stories with empathy and analyse stories to discover the functional, emotional, and aspirational needs of users Elicit stories using the critical incident method Analyze stories to yield insights, specifically so they yield meaning beyond what your participants literally tell...More More unbundling and rebundling [These are all optional readings! You do not need to submit a reflection. ] Canonical readings Unbundling and rebundling is most-well studied in the service design world. The canonical paper here is by Richard Normann, who wrote a book: "When the Map Changes the Landscape." Read chapter 2 here. This is also the chapter that... More Assignment 1: Analyze the value flows & suggest a tech-enabled reframing [This is a preview. It is incomplete, and will change before it's final.] In this assignment, you'll look at an existing kind of business, draw out its value flows, and suggest a reframing enabled by technology. The business we will analyze is book-publishing. In doing this assignment, you'll learn all the ways in which "value"... More Week 1 Reading: Leverage points Link to PDF: Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System Add your reflection by adding a comment to the page. (You can use a psuedonym, but please use your andrew email for grading reasons.)More CMU | HCI for Startups, Proudly powered by WordPress.