The complexity of modern devices
What is a good design?
- Discoverability
- possible to figure out what actions are possible
- where and how to perform them
- Understanding
- What does it mean?
- How is it supposed to be used
| Design fields | Purpose | Optimisation target | Users |
|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial | form & material | function, value, appearance of the product & system | Users & manufacturer |
| Interaction | understandability & usability | understanding in technology interaction, upon psychology, design, art | users |
| Experience | emotional impact | designing products focused placed on quality and enjoyment of total experience | Users |
?: What are the deficiency in human-machine interaction?
- limitation of today-technology
- self-imposed restriction such as: cost
- lack of understanding of the design principles
Human Centred Design is an approach that puts human needs, capabilities, and behaviour first, then design to accommodate those needs, capabilities and machine behaviour.
| Experience Design Industrial Design Interaction design | Areas of Focus |
|---|---|
| Human-centred design | Process that ensures design match needs and capabilities of the people for whom they are intended |
Fundamental principles of Interaction
Experience
- how fondly people remember their interaction
- discoverability
- affordances
- signifiers
- contraints
- mappings
- feedback
- conceptual model of the system