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Curious about how humans interact with technology? HCI Explained breaks down complex Human-Computer Interaction topics into clear, engaging stories. From agency and automation to design ethics and UX psychology, we explore how tech shapes what it means to be human. Whether you're a student, designer, or tech enthusiast, join us weekly to learn how interaction design influences our everyday lives.Support the show on Buy Me a Coffee to help keep new episodes coming: https://buymeacoffee.com/hciexplained. 💙🚀
Unknown Host hosts HCI Explained, a science show with 30 episodes published.
Your brain has a budget. Good design either spends it wisely or blows it. Not all mental effort is the same — and that distinction turns out to matter enormously for how we design things people actually want to use. Cogn
Your mental model of an app and the designer's rarely match — and that gap explains a lot. Every time you tap something and get a surprise, every time a feature hides somewhere you'd never look, every time a tool feels l
The word "affordance" is everywhere in design — and almost always wrong. Don Norman borrowed a term from ecological psychology, put it at the heart of design thinking, and then watched it get mangled for three decades. D
What makes a button feel clickable — and what happens when it doesn't? A button seems like the simplest thing in design. Press it, something happens. But beneath that transaction sits a surprisingly rich set of decisions
Your font is already talking. The question is whether you're listening. Before you read a single word, the typeface carrying it has already made an impression — formal or casual, trustworthy or playful, easy or exhaustin
Your eye moves before your brain does. Visual hierarchy is why. Every screen you use has been designed — consciously or not — to pull your attention in a particular direction. The size of a heading, the weight of a typef
Your eyes decide what matters before your brain knows you're looking. Most of us assume we read a screen the way we read a book — left to right, top to bottom, taking it all in. But decades of eye-tracking research tell
Why does a button feel clickable? Why do some interfaces feel intuitive almost instantly? And why can cluttered apps feel exhausting to use? The answer often comes back to a set of ideas from early psychology known as Ge
User research did not always look like Zoom calls, heatmaps, and analytics dashboards. In this episode of HCI Explained, we trace how researchers studied people and technology from the 1980s to today. We explore the rise
Failure is not an edge case. It is part of every user experience. In this episode, we unpack why designing for failure is essential in modern UX. From broken flows and system errors to unexpected user behaviour, the best
Modern technologies don’t always know, and pretending they do can be risky. From AI predictions and recommendations to navigation and health apps, uncertainty is built into how many systems work. The real design challeng
Good UX is meant to help users — but what happens when it doesn’t? Many design patterns celebrated as “good UX” are optimised for engagement, speed, and convenience. Over time, these same choices can lead to overuse, man
Automation promises speed, efficiency, and scale — but it also raises a difficult question: how much control should humans give up? As AI systems increasingly make decisions, take actions, and optimise outcomes on our be
Why do we trust some technologies and hesitate with others? As AI systems become more autonomous, adaptive, and opaque, trust has become one of the most complex challenges in Human–Computer Interaction. In this episode o
As we look beyond 2025, the question isn’t what will definitely happen, it’s what might become possible. In this episode of HCI Explained, we explore what could be in store for technology in 2026, drawing on emerging sig
2025 was a defining year for technology, marked by major breakthroughs and equally notable missteps. In this episode of HCI Explained, we examine the biggest tech successes and failures of 2025, delving beyond headlines
Want to find usability problems before they frustrate your users? That’s where heuristic evaluation comes in — a quick, expert-based method that delivers powerful UX insights without needing large-scale testing. In this
Ever tapped through an app and thought, who tested this? That’s where usability testing comes in — one of the most practical and powerful methods in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and UX design. In this episode of HCI
Every day, you’re already engaging in multimodal interaction, whether you’re tapping on a screen, speaking to a virtual assistant, or combining gestures and voice commands in your car. But what does it really mean when t
What if your body wasn’t just a tool to operate technology but the interface itself? From swiping on a touchscreen to moving through a VR world, your body is already shaping how you experience the digital. This is the es
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