chris noessel

Chris Noessel is a 20+ year UX veteran, author, and public speaker. He was one of the early guests on UX Podcast, first featuring back in 2012 when he and Nathan Shedroff came on to discuss their book Make It So.

Always giving us something to think about, Chris has talked to us about sci-fi interfaces, agentive technology, the importance of creativity, and randomness.

 

Make it more so with Chris Noessel and Nathan Shedroff

September 22, 2023 Podcast, Guest show 0:52:53
This podcast is episode 1 of 6 recorded at UXLx 2023

S02E04 (#314). Sci-fi and AI. Over a decade on from our first chat with Chris and Nathan, after the publishing of their book Make It So – Interaction Design Lessons from Science Fiction, Per and James found themselves with the opportunity at UXLx to talk to Chris and Nathan again. Our conversation starts with AI in the context of Sci-fi interfaces, then progresses into a discussion of AI more generally.

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#276 Creativity with Denise Jacobs & Chris Noessel (UXP Classic)

November 19, 2021 Podcast, Guest show, Classic show 00:35:34

We talk to Denise Jacobs about how to banish our inner critic and remove the mental blocks that get in the way of creative thinking. We also talked about how you can improve focus and get your brain into a state where you can access creative ideas best.

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#217 Randomness with Chris Noessel

August 16, 2019 Podcast, Guest show 00:34:47
This podcast is episode 4 of 5 recorded at From Business To Buttons 2019

Chris Noessel, UX veteran and many-time UX Podcast guest, joins us at From Business To Buttons to talk about randomness – a broad philosophical topic with a rich history and some interesting applications for creativity and design. Read More

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#216 Make it so with Nathan Shedroff and Chris Noessel (UXP Classic)

August 2, 2019 Podcast, Guest show, Classic show 00:41:38

In this classic episode, Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel, authors of Make It So, join us to talk about interaction design lessons from science fiction. For a number of years Nathan and Chris have been collecting and investigating interfaces seen and used in science fiction, that research has now made it into book form.

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Getting the most from your creative brain

August 14, 2017 Blog

Guest post by John Ragozzine

Of all the excellent points raised in episode 136 of the UX Podcast, with Denise Jacobs and Chris Noessel, the first half’s focus on creativity resonated most deeply with me. From her talk “Unfold your Brain,” self-described creativity evangelist Denise Jacobs explains how to banish your inner critic—or more so, how to make this nagging critic a team player, working with you instead of against you.

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#136 Creativity with Denise Jacobs & Chris Noessel

August 19, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:37:17

“Unfold your brain – Skyrocket your creative ability” was the title of Denise Jacobs’s highly interactive workshop at UXLx this spring. We talked to Denise about how to banish our inner critic and the mental blocks that get in the way of creative thinking. We also talked about how you can improve focus and get your brain into a state where you access creative ideas best.

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Interview with @chrisnoessel & @denisejacobs at #UXLx 2016

May 29, 2016 Event clip
This podcast is episode 7 of 11 recorded at UXLx 2016

We sat down in Room 4 at UXLx to chat to Chris Noessel and Denise Jacobs about creativity. Which was a topic shared by both their keynote presentations on the speaker day here at the conference. Why is creativity so important?

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Speaker day wrap-up with @hugofroesUX at #UXLx 2016

May 26, 2016 Event clip
This podcast is episode 6 of 11 recorded at UXLx 2016

Straight after Alan Cooper finished what some of us are calling his “I had a dream” speech, we were joined by UXLx attendee Hugo Froes to reflect upon and summarise a day of excellent talks and keynotes here in Lisbon.

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#121 Agentive technology with Chris Noessel

March 4, 2016 Podcast, Guest show 00:52:08
This podcast is episode 2 of 11 recorded at UXLx 2016

Spawned from his keen interest in sci-fi interfaces Chris Noessel is passionate about the concept of agentive technology; computers doing things on our behalf. Computers may do things we don’t want to do or ourselves, things we don’t know how how to do or things we’ve never done before. The trick of course is for the computers to butt in at the right time.

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#86 James & Per & Chris redesign Star Wars

November 14, 2014 Podcast, Guest show 00:27:41

UX Podcast was lucky enough to take part in the first ever Redesigning Star Wars workshop run by Chris Noessel. Chris is the co-author of Make It So, the main guy behind scifiinterfaces.com and design fellow at Cooper.

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Episode 25: James and Per make it so

October 15, 2012 Podcast, Guest show 00:48:42

In this show James and Per were joined by Nathan Shedroff and Christopher Noessel authors of Make It So, interaction design lessons from science fiction. For a number of years Nathan and Chris have been collecting and investigating interfaces seen and used in science fiction, that research has now made it into book form.

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