In our last session we talked about teaching. It is important to not only consume knowledge but also let others benefit of your skills. Today, every participant brought one skill to teach to other classmates. In my group (of four people) we taught each other several things: some words of the Hungarian language, a relaxation …
Category Archives: Interaction Design Methods
Art vs. Design
When is art design and when is design art. The separation of art and design like it was 10 years ago seem to merge nowadays and will be even more blurred in the future I would say. It is important, that those two fields which are very near to each other can exchange discourses and …
Innovation for All
The word “innovation” is used in many fields nowadays, especially in companies that try to seem advanced. Focusing mainly on the job as designer, whose job basically is to be creative and therefore innovative, we talked about different methods of gaining innovative ideas. Innovation through observation Observation is probably the most powerful tool in order …
Visual Abstratctions
What do we use Visuals Abstractions (e.g. Sketches, Mind Maps, Graphs etc.) for? Especially in our role as designer; When does it make sense to use not the final product/design as representative, but rather raw sketches or fancy diagrams. We talked about the powers and weaknesses of visual abstractions in this weeks course. Where everything …
Re: Evaluation
This week, our class got informed about Evaluation in the design process. Evaluation is (at least for me) one of the key-parts of any design process. A process without evaluation makes the possibility that a product or outcome could become completely useless pretty high. As the epimology of the word evaluation explains (french: evaluer, ex: …
Evaluation by Narration
Stories are a very powerful tool as a designer. We can use it for methods in order to gain creativity, proof of concept, and future thinking, but also as a tool to sell our product to a company. The Narration in the Design Process The Exploratory play for example, is just one of many narration …
Prototyping
Prototyping describes the way of checking your design against reality. This can be done in very different ways and at several stages in ones design process. It is possibly the most powerful tool for a designer to work with. Why do we do Protoyping? Its a fairytale that designers come up with the design solution …
User Experience
We as humans experience our surroundings in many different ways. Therefore a product, which is designed for a purpose tend to evoke such experience. In the evolution of product design, this experiences seem to play a bigger role more and more. There is a clear tendency of a shift from product to experience; Experience is …
HCI and Design Methods
This time our class got introduced to HCI (Human-Computer-Interaction) and Design Methods of User centred Design. Since the user is the person which is going to use the design at the end, it makes clear sense to involve them in the process of creation as much and as early as possible. Cooperative Design – Good …
Design in the everyday context
In this weeks class we talked about different texts and their approach to design for daily things. In my opinion it is much about perspectives/points of views to look at a design problem. Design Characteristics by John M. Caroll In the second chapter of his book “Making Use” John M. Caroll describes an accurate way …
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