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June 4, 2025 28 mins

Brad Myers is the Charles M. Geschke Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, with an affiliated faculty appointment in the Software and Societal Systems Department. He’s also the author of a new book, "Pick, Click, Flick! The Story of Interaction Techniques." In this episode, he discusses the importance of usability in design, notable failures in user interface design, and the future of Human-Computer Interaction.


 Key Takeaways:

- Historic HCI failures

- What is HCI?

- How AI will affect HCI?


Episode Timeline:

1:45What is the Human-Computer Interaction field?

3:30The evolution of interaction techniques

6:30Designing for usability and intuition

09:40Historic failures in user interface design

10:30Why Clippy didn't work

14:30The history of copy and paste

18:00Mac or PC?

21:30The future of HCI and AI integration


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