About the author

The Challenge of Improving Designing

Erik Stolterman
http://transground.blogspot.com/
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

Erik Stolterman is Professor in Informatics and the Senior Executive Associate Dean of the School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is also professor at the Institute of Design at Umeå University, Sweden. Stolterman is co-Editor for the Design Thinking/Design Theory book series by MIT Press, and on several editorial boards for international journals (The HCI journal, International Journal of Design, Design Studies, Design, Economics and Innovation, International Journal of Designs for Learning, Studies in Material Thinking, Human Computation, Artifact). Stolterman’s main work is within the areas of HCI, interfaces, interactivity, interaction design, design practice, philosophy and theory of design. Stolterman has published a large number of articles and five books, including Thoughtful Interaction Design (MIT Press) and The Design Way (MIT Press) and the recently published Things That Keep Us Busy-The Elements of Interaction (MIT Press, 2017).