Happy new year 2026 to all our friends and colleagues who follow us here and/or who may see this! Best wishes

By moi!

A Rage For / Against the Machine panel certainly provides a great conclusion after debating all day A.I. in research, creativity and UX design. #HCID2025 #ParadigmShift

Quite a day. It began with giving a first-time talk at one of my favourite conferences, which coincidentally overlapped with some of the themes of the opening keynote. The rest of #HCID2025 was great too. Ended with meeting Brian Eno and giving him my business card. Mad places, universities.

In yesterday’s session, Rick from GDS unpacked how #contentdesign, #IA & #UI intersect, & why structure matters as much as surface: Content is infrastructure. Design from the inside out. Model small. Stay flexible. Cookies, not snowflakes. #GOVUK #DesignSystems #HCID2025 #EduSky #RikWilliams

Deadline approaching!

Still buzzing from yesterday. #HCID2025

Thank you to all our keynote speakers, presenters, room hosts, volunteers, participants, organisers, students, everyone for a truly wonderful #HCID2025! We'll share other photos etc. later on LinkedIn. Cheers all! (See some of you again @comicsandai.org on 4th September!)

Dedicated room in the pub awaits! #HCID2025

What a day it's been! Lovely community #HCID2025

15:30 sessions to start asap #HCID2025

3pm sessions ongoing #HCID2025 hcidopenday.co.uk/wp-content/u... #HCID2025

#HCID2025 Attendees! Head along to the accessibility session this afternoon to see the excellent Amy Hanschell sharing lessons for designing accessible #Alexa interactions for users with #aphasia from our @hcid.city, @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social and Dundee Uni collab. #AphasiaAwarenessMonth

The first after lunch sessions have started hcidopenday.co.uk/wp-content/u... #HCID2025

Lunch is served at the foyer outside ELG03! #HCID2025

Sampson urges a rethink of #UX in public services: less about optimisation, more about liberation. Current models centre ideal users, sidelining others. Time to design for complexity, cooperation, & shared experience not just efficiency. #LiberatoryDesign #HCID2025 #TonySampson #DesignJustice

Reminder our Quiet Room is ELG14 if you need to escape the buzz for a bit #HCID2025

Hassler urges designers to break out of the “ivory tower” & learn from fields like architecture, journalism, & craft. To move beyond traditional design thinking & collaborate across disciplines to tackle complex, real-world challenges. #DesignThinking #Interdisciplinary #HCID2025 #ChristophHassler

Great to have the opportunity to listen to the great @dompates.bsky.social on 'Batlling monsters for credit'- setting interdisciplinary higher education in historical and sociopolitical context hcidopenday.co.uk/speakers/dom... #HCID2025

The Design/Practice 12pm session: Designing for the Paradigm Shift: Building Tools for a Creative Future by Lili Eva Bartha at ELG11 will now be at 2pm (straight after lunch). #HCID2025

Don't forget to take a look at the student work (desig justice zines!) table in the main foyer #HCID2025

Back to @citystgeorgesucu.bsky.social this morning for the #HCID conference. Last week’s Digital Transformation event was insightful and glad to have been invited to attend today’s event! Thank you 🙂 @stuartscott.bsky.social #HCID2025 #ParadigmShift

When you’re listening to a keynote and realising that your own later talk actually covers some very similar ground… #HCID2025 #ParadigmShift

Really enjoying how Christoph is setting the present in historical context, and therefore offering a critical history of design systems where the acknowledgement of the polycrisis (pandemics! climate change! economic crisis! capitalist collpase!) is crucial. Essential food for thought #HCID2025

Find the bios of all of today's #HCID2025 speakers at hcidopenday.co.uk/speakers/

Christoph Hassler is delivering the opening keynote on strategic design in the polycrisis. #HCID2025

We are go! Professor @stephwilsoncity.bsky.social launching #HCID2025!

Good morning. Today's the day! Registration from 10:30am. Proceedings start 11:00am. Programme: hcidopenday.co.uk/wp-content/u... [PDF] See you soon! #HCID2025

Good morning. Today's the day! Registration from 10:30am. Proceedings start 11:00am. Programme: hcidopenday.co.uk/wp-content/u... [PDF] See you soon! #HCID2025

Looking forward to welcoming everyone! If you registered you will have received an email with subject #HCID2025 - Paradigm Shift - Useful Information for Attendees. See you all tomorrow!

Want to discuss the Poly-Crisis and how we as Designers might respond? Or maybe you want to find out what AI is doing to our industry... If you're in London next week - come join! 😃

It's tomorrow! Are you ready? hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025

You don't need to be a professional in the area or submit a presentation to attend- the audience is as important as the speakers. If you are interested in Comics & AI and can make it to London on the 4th of September this year, get your ticket! All welcome! comicsandai.org

On Tuesday.

Next Tuesday already! #HCID2025

Next week already! #HCID2025

PLEASE SIGN! Open Letter: Critical AI Literacy Skills for All --> docs.google.com/document/d/1... Led by Connected by Data's @timdavies.org.uk we are inviting support for for complementary investment and action to deliver independent and inclusive critical AI literacy building for all.

Next week already! #HCID2025

Check the date. Get your ticket. #HCID2025

Into Interaction Design? UX? Get your tickets for our #HCID2025 conference: Paradigm Shift! Tuesday 24th June 2025 - City St George's, University of London hcidopenday.co.uk

It's the final countdown for #HCID2025! HCID one-day conference on the 24th June @citystgeorges.bsky.social. Tickets available at hcidopenday.co.uk

Interaction Design folk! Tuesday 24th June 2025 is the date for Paradigm Shift: hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025

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This year our theme is "Pardigm Shift". Discussions will cover dealing with the shift, how we respond to it, and how we critique, appropriate it and start being proactive. Find out more: hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025

We want to bring together interested parties with the aim to explore how designers should be reacting to the major changes currently impacting society, from technology to politics to climate. Find out more: hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025

🧵- Check our amazing speakers so far- #HCID2025

Save the dates: event 4 September 2025; all welcome. Registration deadline 4 August 2025.

Tuesday 24th June 2025 in Londinium! It's bound to be a thought-provoking and fun day #HCID2025

Join us for the HCID conference 2025: Paradigm Shift: an event @citystgeorges.bsky.social for designers, researchers, academics, and anyone with an interest in the latest trends in #UX and Human Computer Interaction. hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025

If you are a scholar or practitioner interested in comics you must have thoughts about GenAI. This is an opportunity to think seriously, establish dialogue, and draw lines of future enquiry. 200-word abstract submission deadline: 10 July 2025. comicsandai.org/call-for-pap... #CFP