Towards user design? On the shift from object to user as the subject of design

Redström, Johan

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2005.06.001

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“…Figure 2. Spheres of design [6] The notion of design as communication was extended by Redström [7]. He suggested that design is best conceived as the user's experience of an object.…”

Section: The Importance Of Interface Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Design of Children Educational Game Interface: Review of the Literature

Anugerah¹,

Budiyanto²

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017)

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Alongside the development of graphical resolution of computer displays, computer games become a prominent media for educational and recreational purposes. The visual in video games is believed to have a major role in learning, as the learning happens with visual description. Although computer games have been realized as a tool for teaching and learning of complex conceptual subjects, the way how visual design delivers wisdom was remain underexplored. This paper reviews the recent trend of children educational games to obtain an understanding of the multifaceted advantages of visual imageries of computer games. A systematic review over the pool of 200 papers from two established journals in education was conducted. The patterns of how visual design contributes to learning were investigated. The insight from the reviewed papers, subsequently, was analyzed to construct an elaboration on the use of visual computer game design to improve the learning experience.

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“…Figure 2. Spheres of design [6] The notion of design as communication was extended by Redström [7]. He suggested that design is best conceived as the user's experience of an object.…”

Section: The Importance Of Interface Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Design of Children Educational Game Interface: Review of the Literature

Anugerah¹,

Budiyanto²

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017)

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“…from Blevis (2007: p.508), who notes that 'it is easier to state the kinds of behaviours we would like to achieve from the perspective of sustainability than it is to account for how such behaviours may be adequately motivated.' Of course, users will not always behave how designers intend or expect them to (Kanis, 1998;Stanton & Baber, 2002;Redström, 2005), even as designers attempt to 'script' behaviour (Akrich, 1992;Jelsma & Knot, 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring Design Patterns for Sustainable Behaviour

2013

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Products and services explicitly intended to influence users' behaviour are increasingly being proposed to reduce environmental impact and for other areas of social benefit. Designing such interventions often involves adopting and adapting principles from other contexts where behaviour change has been studied. The 'design pattern' form, used in software engineering and HCI, and originally developed in architecture, offers benefits for this transposition process. This article introduces the Design with Intent toolkit, an idea generation method using a design pattern form to help designers address sustainable behaviour problems. The article also reports on exploratory workshops in which participants used the toolkit to generate concepts for redesigning everyday products-kettles, curtains, printers and bathroom sinks/taps-to reduce the environmental impact of use. The concepts are discussed, along with observations of how the toolkit was used by participants, suggesting usability improvements to incorporate in future versions.

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“…This reduces the risks of making new technical systems that fail and increases the likelihood of discovering new opportunities for technology that adds value to people's lives. End users will still discover unanticipated uses for new products [Redström 2006], but this type of research reduces the risk of making things that are wildly inappropriate and that have a high likelihood of non-acceptance.…”

Section: Research Through Design In Hcimentioning

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The Role of Design Artifacts in Design Theory Construction

Zimmerman

Forlizzi

2008

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As a discipline evolves, intellectual issues come into focus, and the outcomes of systematic inquiry grow in importance. The discipline of design is facing such a time, as scholars, researchers, and practitioners are devoting attention to creating categories for design practice and design research, articulating methods and processes, and in some cases, building new design theories. The field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is also experiencing an evolutionary broadening in scope that creates the need for design research. Many designers working in the HCI research community have expressed an increased interest in research through design; a research approach that employs methods and processes from design practice. However, without an agreed upon form of practice, evaluation, and outcome, it is hard to consistently develop design theory from research through design outcomes. In this paper, we begin to identify specific outcomes of research through design that form the basis for theory production. We present the research through design process and two different approaches of research through design (philosophical and grounded) that can lead to formation of design theory. We identify that extensible, systemic approaches to research through design are the most promising ones for developing design theory, and illustrate with examples. Keywords IntroductionAs a discipline evolves, intellectual issues come into focus, and the outcomes of systematic inquiry -the practice of research -grow in importance. The discipline of design is facing such a time, as scholars, researchers, and practitioners are devoting attention to creating categories for design practice and design research, articulating methods and processes, and in some cases, building new design theories and new theories of design. Today we are possibly on the verge of a revolution in design research that can advance beyond current forms of design practice and current research on design methodology [Dorst, 2008].

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Towards user design? On the shift from object to user as the subject of design

Cited by 272 publications

References 3 publications

The Design of Children Educational Game Interface: Review of the Literature

The Design of Children Educational Game Interface: Review of the Literature

Exploring Design Patterns for Sustainable Behaviour

The Role of Design Artifacts in Design Theory Construction

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