November 4th, 2008
There’s a grab bag of interaction design practices. These link up with different theories in HCI. Once you get to a company, that company has certain pieces of the bigger picture that they focus on / use.
It’s important…
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October 21st, 2008
1st Part of the Presentation Who you are / what you’re doing
2nd Part of the Presentation is a sort of mock presentation to the “client.”
Possible Design Models:
- Principles
- Frameworks
- Notions / concepts
So far this…
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October 14th, 2008
Evil
- Why do we need to think about good and evil when it comes to design?
- It’s easy as a designer to be caught up in the complexity of “am I doing good” or “am I not doing
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September 30th, 2008
Situation
- At the top of a chart, you have a situation
- As a designer, you want to change it
- As a researcher, you want to know more about it
- Can’t see all of it at once!
- So,
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September 23rd, 2008
Based on the organization you pick, you can start to work with this group
You have to pick some of the ways to share the
Design Theory Model
- Last year, other groups chose…
- Parents
- Kids
- Non-Profit
- Teachers
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September 16th, 2008
Each of these traditions has its own measure of success, value system, beliefs, etc.
When someone wants to approach the
What if we try to understand design as its own tradition?
- Traditions
- Science
- Engineering
- Art
- Religion
- Politics
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September 9th, 2008
Purpose of the course: “Try to understand design in the best possible way.” My own private design identity.
Friedman – Theory construction in design research: criteria: approaches, and methods
Design Theory
- Hypothesis
What is a theory?
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