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Making Design Tools Like a Weaver: Four Rules

https://doi.org/10.1145/3596929

Devendorf, Laura; Wu, Shanel; Friske, Mikhaila (June 2023, XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students)

What would happen if we designed CAD systems like a weaver designs cloth? Drawing from our ongoing collaborations with weavers, we suggest four rules to bring these qualities to your own practice: follow the materials, privilege the present and personal, form kinships with the past, and design systems of notations.
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Designing Dissolving Wearables

https://doi.org/10.1145/3594739.3610781

Lazaro Vasquez, Eldy S.; Gabriel, Lily M; Friske, Mikhaila; Wu, Shanel; De Koninck, Sasha; Devendorf, Laura; Alistar, Mirela (October 2023, ACM)
Entangling the Roles of Maker and Interpreter in Interpersonal Data Narratives: Explorations in Yarn and Sound

https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395442

Friske, Mikhaila; Wirfs-Brock, Jordan; Devendorf, Laura (July 2020, Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference)

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AdaCAD: Crafting Software For Smart Textiles Design

https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300575

Friske, Mikhaila; Wu, Shanel; Devendorf, Laura (January 2019, CHI '19 Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)

Woven smart textiles are useful in creating flexible electronics because they integrate circuitry into the structure of the fabric itself. However, there do not yet exist tools that support the specific needs of smart textiles weavers. This paper describes the process and development of AdaCAD, an application for composing smart textile weave drafts. By augmenting traditional weaving drafts, AdaCAD allows weavers to design woven structures and circuitry in tandem and offers specific support for common smart textiles techniques. We describe these techniques, how our tool supports them alongside feedback from smart textiles weavers. We conclude with a reflection on smart textiles practice more broadly and suggest that the metaphor of coproduction can be fruitful in creating effective tools and envisioning future applications in this space.
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