Research
Objective: To research and develop novel usable approaches to product interaction and experience. Current objectives:
- To build a conceptual framework about user-interface (UI) pattern creation in interaction and communication design based on a corpus of “interaction-sentence” examples from design practice.
- To develop and test, based on this schema, a semiotics-based design, analysis, and evaluation method (e.g., semiotic heuristics).
Interests
- Media philosophy
- Interaction and communication design
- Product semantics
- UI evaluation, usability
- Language and semiotics of the user-interface and interaction
- Semiotic Engineering
About me
Jan Brejcha is a Ph.D. Candidate of New Media Studies at the Charles University in Prague. He is interested in the meaning of things around us, which he exploits in consulting and interaction and communication design courses [cs]. In his free time he enjoys socializing, travelling [cs], and walking his dog. Contact me
Services
Objective: To design usable and aestetic user-interfaces based on user research.
- Consulting, workshops and lecturing in interaction design (IxD) and user-experience (UX)
- Analytic interface evaluation
- Semiotic analysis of user-interfaces
- Easy-to-use website content management system
Last works:
Webpages and e-mail solution for the Vilém Flusser’s Center for Culture and Technology using Google Apps as backend (2009).
Internal corporate knowledge base and e-mail migration onto Google Apps (2009).
CSS grid system for my personal webpage (2009).
Consulting of the “Multimedia kindegarten” project with the Czech Academy of Arts (2009).
Consulting and SWOT analysis for a children web-portal (2008).
Semiotic analysis for a mobile carrier of a proposed service (2008).
Activities
19062010 Author reading of short stories after a guided walk in Všenory about Marina Cvetajeva, a Russian poet (Club 8).
29042010 Lecture Semiotics: A tool for a better UX? (ACM SIGCHI, Prague)
12112009 Presentation of the first Czech HCI Almanac - User-friendly Interfaces
12112009 Prague World Usability Day 2009
16092009 UXWeek 2009: What Web Designers Need To Know About Mobile Design (Rachel Hinman, Adaptive Path)
02062009 User-experience Centre of Excellence, AM+A, Berkeley
07052009 Race, religion, representation Conference presentation about the ideology of the user-interface (“UI Ideology”), Łódź
10112008 Planned conference article “HCI and information services” (Czech Academy of Science)
17042008 Lecture “ICT design from the humanities perspective” at Academy of Fine Arts with a workshop on Denim: UI prototyping tool.
18122007 Lecture Semiotic engineering as an alternative HCI theory
Gallery
Motto: Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)
Resources
Recommended resources, links and interaction design conferences:
- Interaction and communication design