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Centre for HCID, City St George's

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The Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design @citystgeorges.bsky.social‬, University of London conducts leading user-centred research. Home of the MSc HCID. hcid.city #HCID2026: hcidconference.co.uk

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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/08/2026
We are excited to announce Harry Brignull (of Deceptive Patterns fame) as years #HCID2026 commercial keynote. His talk 'We thought we were the good guys' will explore the pressing issue of accountability in #UX and #Tech. Join us on Wednesday 23rd September to learn more. hcidconference.co.uk
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 07/08/2026
Save the Date! The HCID Conference is returning on Wednesday 23rd September! Our theme is ‘Rage Against the Machine!’. Exploring the negative impacts of technology on society and suggesting how we can all take positive action. Tickets just £15 or free for students! hcidconference.co.uk #HCID2026
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 01/01/2026
Happy new year 2026 to all our friends and colleagues who follow us here and/or who may see this! Best wishes
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 05/12/2025
By moi!
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Michael R. Lorek @onlinedesign.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
A Rage For / Against the Machine panel certainly provides a great conclusion after debating all day A.I. in research, creativity and UX design. #HCID2025 #ParadigmShift
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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Quite a day. It began with giving a first-time talk at one of my favourite conferences, which coincidentally overlapped with some of the themes of the opening keynote. The rest of #HCID2025 was great too. Ended with meeting Brian Eno and giving him my business card. Mad places, universities.
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Vikki Liogier 🦋 @vikkiliogier.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
In yesterday’s session, Rick from GDS unpacked how #contentdesign, #IA & #UI intersect, & why structure matters as much as surface: Content is infrastructure. Design from the inside out. Model small. Stay flexible. Cookies, not snowflakes. #GOVUK #DesignSystems #HCID2025 #EduSky #RikWilliams
Content Design Spectrum
A horizontal flowchart titled “Content Design Spectrum” spans from back-end(s) to front-end(s). It shows five sequential stages of content development:
	1.	Content Model – Objects, Relations, CTAs, Attributes (semantic structure)
	2.	Content Type – Required content attributes (logical structure)
	3.	Content Format – Specific content structure (organisational structure)
	4.	Content Design – Words + Media (rhetorical structure)
	5.	UI Design – Interaction (behavioural structure)
Each stage includes a shape symbol and explanatory labels, with a GDS logo at the bottom. A horizontal diagram titled “Content Design Spectrum” shows a flow from Back-end(s) to Front-end(s) across five stages:
	1.	Content Model – “Objects, Relations, CTAs, Attributes” (semantic structure, represented by a turquoise pentagon)
	2.	Content Type – “Required content attributes” (logical structure, turquoise pentagon)
	3.	Content Format – “Specific content structure” (organisational structure, turquoise pentagon)
	4.	Content Design – “Words + Media” (rhetorical structure, green triangle)
	5.	UI Design – “Interaction” (behavioural structure, pink circle)

Each step answers a key design question, from “What’s available?” to “How packaged?”
The image is branded with the GDS (Government Digital Service) logo in the bottom left corner.A grey cloud-shaped diagram centered on a turquoise hexagon labeled “IA” (Information Architecture). Seven spokes radiate outward, each representing a design tension or trade-off:
	1.	body <> head(s)
	2.	cookies <> snowflakes
	3.	bottom-up <> top-down
	4.	flexible <> brittle
	5.	big <> small
	6.	slow <> fast
	7.	help <> harm

The image suggests that good IA involves balancing these tensions. A GDS (Government Digital Service) logo is shown in the lower-left corner.
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Comics & AI: Critical Prompts @comicsandai.org · 25/06/2025
Deadline approaching!
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 25/06/2025
Still buzzing from yesterday. #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
Thank you to all our keynote speakers, presenters, room hosts, volunteers, participants, organisers, students, everyone for a truly wonderful #HCID2025! We'll share other photos etc. later on LinkedIn. Cheers all! (See some of you again @comicsandai.org on 4th September!)
HCID2025 conference signage on wall giving directions to conference space
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
Dedicated room in the pub awaits! #HCID2025
The image shows the interior of a pub area. There are several wooden tables and mismatched chairs arranged throughout the room.

To the left, a person dressed in white is working behind a counter, possibly preparing food or serving dishes. Behind them are open shelves stocked with plates, kitchen supplies, and various food containers.
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
What a day it's been! Lovely community #HCID2025
Conference delegates mingle over drinks and nibbles at the foyer
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
15:30 sessions to start asap #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
3pm sessions ongoing #HCID2025 hcidopenday.co.uk/wp-content/u... #HCID2025
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Dr Abi Roper @abracabadger.com · 24/06/2025
#HCID2025 Attendees! Head along to the accessibility session this afternoon to see the excellent Amy Hanschell sharing lessons for designing accessible #Alexa interactions for users with #aphasia from our @hcid.city, @citystgeorgeslcs.bsky.social and Dundee Uni collab. #AphasiaAwarenessMonth
Aphasia and Alexa: 
‘I dinnae ken if I’m capable of that’AVITA Accessible Voice Interaction for Aphasia
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
The first after lunch sessions have started hcidopenday.co.uk/wp-content/u... #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
Lunch is served at the foyer outside ELG03! #HCID2025
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Vikki Liogier 🦋 @vikkiliogier.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Sampson urges a rethink of #UX in public services: less about optimisation, more about liberation. Current models centre ideal users, sidelining others. Time to design for complexity, cooperation, & shared experience not just efficiency. #LiberatoryDesign #HCID2025 #TonySampson #DesignJustice
Sampson stands beside a presentation slide titled “A New Paradigm: Critical-HCI.” He is pointing towards the screen while speaking. The slide critiques the traditional UX paradigm, raising questions like “Is the user the best starting place?” and “Who gets silenced?” It advocates for experiential liberation over optimisation, plural and cooperative experiences, and rejecting consumer centrality in favour of broader, social and cultural contexts.
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
Reminder our Quiet Room is ELG14 if you need to escape the buzz for a bit #HCID2025
Signage poster on glass window with a drawn blue thought bubble. Text: HCID Conference 2025

Quiet Room

A space to rest from the buzz of the conference
ELG14
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Vikki Liogier 🦋 @vikkiliogier.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Hassler urges designers to break out of the “ivory tower” & learn from fields like architecture, journalism, & craft. To move beyond traditional design thinking & collaborate across disciplines to tackle complex, real-world challenges. #DesignThinking #Interdisciplinary #HCID2025 #ChristophHassler
Christoph stands in front of a projected slide during his presentation, The slide displays six principles in bold text, each with a corresponding icon:
	1.	“CREATE CIRCLES, NOT LINES”
	2.	“PLAN WITH, DESIGN WITH”
	3.	“BE HUMBLE LEARNERS WHO PRACTICE DEEP LISTENING”
	4.	“CHOOSE CRITICAL CONNECTIONS OVER CRITICAL MASS”
	5.	“SEEK PEOPLE AT THE MARGINS”
	6.	“RECKON WITH THE PAST TO BUILD THE FUTURE”
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/06/2025
Great to have the opportunity to listen to the great @dompates.bsky.social on 'Batlling monsters for credit'- setting interdisciplinary higher education in historical and sociopolitical context hcidopenday.co.uk/speakers/dom... #HCID2025
Dom Pates presenting in university room, screen with his title slides, Battling Monsters For Credit: Introducing interdisciplinary education for climate and sustainability, sitting members of the audience visible too.
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
The Design/Practice 12pm session: Designing for the Paradigm Shift: Building Tools for a Creative Future by Lili Eva Bartha at ELG11 will now be at 2pm (straight after lunch). #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
Don't forget to take a look at the student work (desig justice zines!) table in the main foyer #HCID2025
Disaplay of different Design Justice zines on a table
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Vikki Liogier 🦋 @vikkiliogier.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Back to @citystgeorgesucu.bsky.social this morning for the #HCID conference. Last week’s Digital Transformation event was insightful and glad to have been invited to attend today’s event! Thank you 🙂 @stuartscott.bsky.social #HCID2025 #ParadigmShift
Two speakers are presenting at the HCID Conference 2025 in a lecture room. A man is holding a microphone and speaking, while a woman stands at a podium with a laptop. Behind them, two large screens display the conference title slide, which reads: “HCID Conference 2025 – Paradigm Shift. Steph Wilson and Sara Heitlinger (Co-Directors), Stuart Scott (Interaction Lab Manager).” The man is wearing a green T-shirt, and the woman is dressed in black. A small audience is partially visible in the foreground.
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Dom Pates @dompates.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
When you’re listening to a keynote and realising that your own later talk actually covers some very similar ground… #HCID2025 #ParadigmShift
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 24/06/2025
Really enjoying how Christoph is setting the present in historical context, and therefore offering a critical history of design systems where the acknowledgement of the polycrisis (pandemics! climate change! economic crisis! capitalist collpase!) is crucial. Essential food for thought #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
Find the bios of all of today's #HCID2025 speakers at hcidopenday.co.uk/speakers/
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
Christoph Hassler is delivering the opening keynote on strategic design in the polycrisis. #HCID2025
Christoph Hassler is delivering the opening keynote on strategic design in the polycrisis. #HCID2025. He stands behind the pod with two screens behind him. Text on the slide reads:

"If you've been feeling confused and as though everything is impacting on you all at the same time, this is not a personal, private experience, this is actually a collective experience.

John Adam Tooze, British Historian
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
We are go! Professor @stephwilsoncity.bsky.social launching #HCID2025!
Stephanie Wilson in full capacity lecture theatre, 5 screens (2 large ones; 3 smaller ones) with slides
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
Good morning. Today's the day! Registration from 10:30am. Proceedings start 11:00am. Programme: hcidopenday.co.uk/wp-content/u... [PDF] See you soon! #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 24/06/2025
Good morning. Today's the day! Registration from 10:30am. Proceedings start 11:00am. Programme: hcidopenday.co.uk/wp-content/u... [PDF] See you soon! #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 23/06/2025
Looking forward to welcoming everyone! If you registered you will have received an email with subject #HCID2025 - Paradigm Shift - Useful Information for Attendees. See you all tomorrow!
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Helly @illywithoutz.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Want to discuss the Poly-Crisis and how we as Designers might respond? Or maybe you want to find out what AI is doing to our industry... If you're in London next week - come join! 😃
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 23/06/2025
It's tomorrow! Are you ready? hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025
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Comics & AI: Critical Prompts @comicsandai.org · 20/06/2025
You don't need to be a professional in the area or submit a presentation to attend- the audience is as important as the speakers. If you are interested in Comics & AI and can make it to London on the 4th of September this year, get your ticket! All welcome! comicsandai.org
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Comics & AI: Critical Prompts
A multidisciplinary conference on the future of comics, technology, and creativity
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 20/06/2025
On Tuesday.
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 19/06/2025
Next Tuesday already! #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 17/06/2025
Next week already! #HCID2025
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Dr. Elinor Carmi @elinorcarmi.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
PLEASE SIGN! Open Letter: Critical AI Literacy Skills for All --> docs.google.com/document/d/1... Led by Connected by Data's @timdavies.org.uk we are inviting support for for complementary investment and action to deliver independent and inclusive critical AI literacy building for all.
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 17/06/2025
Next week already! #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 16/06/2025
Check the date. Get your ticket. #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 21/05/2025
Into Interaction Design? UX? Get your tickets for our #HCID2025 conference: Paradigm Shift! Tuesday 24th June 2025 - City St George's, University of London hcidopenday.co.uk
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 02/06/2025
It's the final countdown for #HCID2025! HCID one-day conference on the 24th June @citystgeorges.bsky.social. Tickets available at hcidopenday.co.uk
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 16/06/2025
Interaction Design folk! Tuesday 24th June 2025 is the date for Paradigm Shift: hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 12/06/2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 11/06/2025
This year our theme is "Pardigm Shift". Discussions will cover dealing with the shift, how we respond to it, and how we critique, appropriate it and start being proactive. Find out more: hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 11/06/2025
We want to bring together interested parties with the aim to explore how designers should be reacting to the major changes currently impacting society, from technology to politics to climate. Find out more: hcidopenday.co.uk #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 10/06/2025
🧵- Check our amazing speakers so far- #HCID2025
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Centre for HCID, City St George's @hcid.city · 10/06/2025
Save the dates: event 4 September 2025; all welcome. Registration deadline 4 August 2025.
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Ernesto Priego @ernestopriego.com · 10/06/2025
Tuesday 24th June 2025 in Londinium! It's bound to be a thought-provoking and fun day #HCID2025
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