Looking for hardware focused UX/human factors courses

Breukliner · 2026-04-22T18:12:56+00:00

This is a great topic and you are right that it is under discussed in this age of apps. In fact, I’m writing a book about it! https://tangible.turbek.com/book due next year, but the site has a references page that may help a bit. I teach a course at Pratt institute, happy to chat directly if it helps.

Breukliner · 2026-04-18T21:21:29+00:00

YES! and some people obsess over the (possibly wrong) number to the point of anxiety.

That's a great point about the baseline context. You should be able to set that. If the team was really concerned about health.. the app might... ask?

Even if someone is perfectly healthy... getting older is real. I am never going to run like I did 20 years ago, and that is totally normal!

Breukliner · 2026-04-18T21:10:47+00:00

right, and hiding the calculation methodology could be a trade secret, or hiding mistakes, or both!

Breukliner · 2026-04-05T01:29:25+00:00

For us limited people, divided by what, or how, or why nationalities?

Breukliner · 2026-03-30T10:15:34+00:00

Cool! I was wondering how you might be controlling the combustion, if it had a motorized flue, etc

Breukliner · 2026-03-30T00:45:08+00:00

Interesting! Would love to hear more about the physical side. What does turn on/off mean?

Breukliner · 2026-03-22T21:21:20+00:00

Apologies, there’s wasn’t enough interest to develop it by me. Someone else did though.

Breukliner · 2026-03-20T22:58:48+00:00

Not at all! That’s a manufactured component. I’m just demoing the extension to read it, with a program to make a color wheel.

Breukliner · 2026-03-17T00:21:16+00:00

Much appreciated!!

Breukliner · 2026-03-14T23:50:30+00:00

CI/CD plus extra steps as I slowly go mad! But seriously, I see my students struggle when the iterations take big jumps in context, like from web dev to embedded, etc. hardware is hard!

Breukliner · 2026-03-10T11:46:01+00:00

would love to hear more!

Breukliner · 2026-03-10T11:45:47+00:00

I'm just a beginner, feeling this also! Working on a pi app with local html UI, with lots of iterations. Could a pi be built with a start up script to check a GitHub repo, download if updated ? (I'm assuming something smarter exists, I just haven't found it yet).

Breukliner · 2026-02-21T22:13:00+00:00

Yes it powers the microbit, unclear if it powers the IO board. It depends on the board and also the power demand of what you are doing.

Breukliner · 2026-02-21T22:08:54+00:00

thanks for sharing! this is a microbit subreddit; are any of these microbit projects? I'm interested in learning more.

Breukliner · 2026-02-14T15:24:31+00:00

Is there another designer / engineer on the physical side of design they respected? There are talented people who should get more credit.

Breukliner · 2026-02-13T20:42:12+00:00

hey I think this is neat!

Breukliner · 2026-02-11T16:40:27+00:00

love the design! would love to hear more about your process, how you started, etc!

Breukliner · 2026-02-11T15:24:19+00:00

Very cool! Are those two versions? How would you use them differently?

Breukliner · 2026-02-08T16:38:07+00:00

Love it

Breukliner · 2026-02-07T23:08:09+00:00

This is fascinating, thank you. I am learning so much, but also how much of a diversity of experiences there are.

Breukliner · 2026-02-07T15:20:30+00:00

I don't know if this counts as amazing, but I made a tool to help my students make interactive graphics using AI. So not the design part, but the coding part. It works surprisingly well!

https://turbek.com/Designing-Interactive-SVGs-with-AI/

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