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Over Coffee® | Stories and Resources from the Intersection of Art and Science | Exploring How to MakWhere Ideas OriginateOver Coffee® is on spring-break hiatus. Please enjoy this reposting of one of our top episodes of 2024."What else?" asks designer and design educator Dr. Cassini Nazir.He's explaining the foundations of curiosity--and the ways it can boost creativity.Cassini, as he prefers to be called, is a designer, in several different areas: designing curricula, interfaces, and even conversations.And in creating any and all of the above, he relies on one crucial ingredient: curiosity.2025-04-2800 min
Choose to be CuriousEp. #235: Inviting Curiosity by Design, with Cassini NazirCan curiosity be meaingfully infused into design processes? Cassini Nazir thinks so.
From curiosity journals to bookmarks and Valentine's Day celebrations, he's full of ideas about how to invite curiosity in, by design.
Cassini Nazir teaches interaction design and user experience courses in the College of Visual Arts and Design at University of North Texas. He's interested in designing ways to invite curiosity in -- and to help curiosity and care step up when empathy falters.
Check out Cassini Nazir's Designing Curiosity website: https://unknowing.design
Theme music by Sean Balick; “Purple Light" by Marble Run, via Blue Dot Sessions.2024-06-1328 min
Design Bubble05 The emergence of UX in design educationDesign educators Norm Cox and Cassini Nazir share how the field of design has evolved over the years, the trends they are noticing, and what students can do to prepare for the future of the UX industry. 💡
2023-07-2722 min
"Lately, I've been thinking about..."Cassini Nazir - CuriosityIn this episode we talk to University of North Texas interaction design professor Cassini Nazir about curiosity. It's (literal) roots in care, how it affects how we think about the war in Ukraine, the defiant ingenuity of the targets of oppression, the pros and cons of empathy, and much, much, more. Recommended content from this episode ArticlesArticles about our poor memory of weather (shifting baseline syndrome)Another article about shifting baseline syndromeDon Norman - Why I Don’t Believe in Empathic Design TVThe Falcon and the Winter...2022-05-2054 min
OLLI at UNT PodcastEpisode 75: Curiosity in the Digital Age with Cassini NazirIn this episode, Susan speaks with Clinical Associate Professor Cassini Nazir about the important role that curiosity plays in the field of Interaction Design. Interaction designers help us to communicate with digital objects through screen interfaces or with our own voices. Professor Nazir encourages his students to design interfaces that provoke a user's curiosity, inviting them to explore the available information in a way that creates lasting memories. He and Susan discuss the wide-ranging benefits of remaining curious in all aspects of our lives. They conclude their conversation by considering whether, in the digital age, designers ought to be bound...2021-10-2029 min
A Lens A Day - Conversations about Information ArchitectureA Lens A Day #22 - Distraction with Cassini NazirConversations about Information Architecture
Dan Brown talks with Cassini Nazir about the Lens of Distraction2021-09-2727 min
The Iowa Idea Podcast88. Bill SchmarzoThe Iowa Idea: Bill Schmarzo
“Don’t create boxes, create swirls.”
In this episode of The Iowa Idea Podcast, I’m joined by Bill Schmarzo. Bill is an author, professor, innovator, and consultant. He is the author of four books including The Economics of Data, Analytics and Digital Transformation. Bill is the former Chief Innovation Officer at Hitachi Vantara where he was responsible for driving Hitachi Vantara’s Data Science and “co-creation” efforts. He was selected for Hitachi Limited’s 2020 Solution Innovation Award for his ground-breaking work in data science and Automated Machine Learning. Bill has held leaders...2021-05-1055 min
INITDesigning CuriosityCassini Nazir is a Clinical Associate Professor at The University of Texas at Dallas where he teaches classes in interaction design. This episode focuses on how the concepts of exformation, waylosing, mindfulness, defamiliarization, and others can be used as tools of design to prompt curiosity and help people live more meaningful lives.Special Guest: Cassini Nazir.2021-04-241h 00The Iowa Idea Podcast40. Cassini NazirThe Iowa Idea: Cassini Nazir
“It’s about people.”
In this episode of The Iowa Idea Podcast, I sit down with Cassini Nazir. Cassini is a designer of conversations, curriculum, and interfaces.
He is a Clinical Associate Professor in New College at the University of North Texas where he teaches classes in design thinking and interaction design. Prior to joining UNT, he taught at The University of Texas at Dallas, where he was founding director of the ATEC Usability Lab, which fosters collaborative research with community partners and offers experiential learning to students
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Design MBADesigning Conversations - Cassini Nazir (Design Professor @ UNT)GUEST BIO:Cassini Nazir is a designer of conversations, curriculum, and interfaces. He is a Clinical Associate Professor in the University of North Texas where he teaches class in design thinking. Prior to joining UNT, he taught interaction design at UT Dallas. He recently served as Designer-in-Residence for the SMU Masters in Design and Innovation program. Previously, he was Director of Design and Research for the ArtSciLab, a transdisciplinary research lab helping the arts, science, and technology communities by pursuing initiatives of societal urgency and cultural timeliness. Cassini holds bachelor’s degrees in English Literature and Economics as we...2020-06-1251 min