Editor-in-Chief: Mads Soegaard (mads@interaction-design.org)
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The Interaction-Design.org Foundation
Att: Mads Soegaard
Chr. Molbechs Vej 4
DK-8000 Aarhus C.
Denmark
The Interaction-Design.org Foundation is a labour of love founded by Mads Soegaard in 2002, and in 2010, his wife, Rikke Dam, joined the project. Apart from Rikke and Mads, hundreds of people have helped out and continue to do so.
We're on a mission to make free and open educational materials: There are so many great minds in the Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design community and we want to empower these authors to reach all their interested readers around the world. We believe these authors have the minds to change the world and deserve a publishing venue truly designed for the author and the reader, not the publisher and the profit.
Our current results show that our free, open, and online approach to publishing lets our authors reach at least 20,000% more readers than their all-time most popular publication. That's quite an achievement since we only invite best-selling technology and design authors.
Yes, we're idealistic. We had to sell our car, re-mortgage our house, get a tenant to help pay the rent, and spend big amounts of our private capital to do it. We even moved to Thailand for a longer period to help keep our costs at a minimum. We found a semi-deserted island where we could focus 100% on our work. We brought extra laptop batteries as we only had power from a diesel generator 5 hours a day. We were able to catch a GSM signal to get a low-bandwidth internet connection. Here are some pictures.
In sum, it has taken us 10 years of hard work to get here and it's worth it: Every single day we help educate thousands of designers and thus help make "a better world through better design." We support:
Our world-wide community of readers passionately support our mission to create world-class educational materials for free.
We can't run the site without help from generous donors.
The top 3 most generous donors from the donor hall of fame:
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We foster synergy at the very highest level between science and high-tech companies. We mix elite professors from Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, etc. with elite designers from Google Research, Apple, IBM Research, etc. And together we produce top-grade, open, and free online learning materials to the benefit of both industry and academia all over the world.
We continually improve and reinvent learning materials as a genre by, for example, producing HD video interviews and including interactive elements. All the educational institutions we visit express need for innovation in this field. At Cambridge University, for example, they closed a museum in order that we could make a video with a professor.
We provide aid for educational institutions and companies in developing countries by giving them free access to materials that otherwise would be out of their financial reach. 20 % of our readers are from developing countries, and the number is increasing exponentially.
We modernize the publishing industry by building a conceptual, legal, editorial, and technical platform for the publication of first-rate online material in a world where 1) people prefer free content over paid content for reasons of both time and money 2) the physical book is being outmanoeuvred by the e-book 3) authors prefer that publishers use technology to maximize readership and not use it to limit readership as in the case of paywalls.
We lay out our results in total openness so they can be used within any other area – from astronomy to psychology.
We contribute to the creation of a better world – in agreement with the UNESCO statement, "Universal access to high quality education is key to the building of peace, sustainable social and economic development, and intercultural dialogue."
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