Our Mission

As technology permeates our lives, its impact is much deeper than productivity. It affects the whole person, including body, emotion, cognition and behavior; and more broadly community and society. In many ways, technology’s effects are not positive: it can bring more stress than delight, more loneliness than community, and more idleness than movement. Through research, teaching, outreach and practice, nexUX will create understanding of these effects, and apply that understanding so that technology will do what it was designed to do: improve our lives.

Our Values

nexUX is still developing, but we are inspired by three principles. First, nexUX will focus on people and improving their lives. Our goals are much broader than improved productivity. Second, nexUX will create and embed itself in community, including local industry and government. If we want to make a difference, we must be connected. Finally, nexUX will work with intellectual breadth. Certainly our efforts will always involve deep rigor, but real solutions require synthesis.