Empathy design is a user-centred approach that focuses on how users feel about products. What Happened to Empathic Design tells the story of empathic design in n Helsin, Finland. Although the term remains in the background in the current work, it is still very much alive. The empathic design originates from design practice. It is interpretative, but unlike ethnographic studies, it focuses on...
Fig. 1. onacleV and Phillip Gough, Reefs on the Edge, 2012. (a) Detail. (b) Close-up of tangible user interface (TUI) objects and film projection. (© Caitilin de Bérigny/ onacleV and Phillip Gough. Photo: Phillip Gough.) Education has made its way into Tangible User Interface Design, a user interface that is interacted through touch. Reefs on the Edge is an interactive installation on Climate...
Reading through the materials of Lillian Gilbreth’s work I noticed that in addition to her contributions to engineering and design, Lillian Gilbreth is also an active voice for women. She has written several articles about why women should work, and she uses data and logic to prove that women are not inferior to men at work. She also encourages women to be educated and be confident. In one...
Empathy is an important element in design thinking. As a designer, the ability to empathize with the users means to see the world through their eyes and give our best attempt to imagine their experience, to set aside our own perspectives, and try to understand their needs and wants. (Devecchi and Guerrini Empathy and design. A new perspective) It is not hard to see why empathy is so important for...
There was no particular job as an artist in Korea. The art we thought of was mainly concurrently operated by the aristocratic class. In addition, there were skilled craftsmen who made luxury goods of the second class, but they were not called artists. At the end of the 19th century, the wave of the Western Industrial Revolution hit Korea, causing a crisis for Korean craftsmen. Rather than being...
With the globalization of art and designs, perspectives of one’s design and the identity of the work become important. Cultures, languages, and history are all very important elements in shaping design identities so I studied my cultural history and other East Asia design histories to have a better understanding of the art of design. Even the word ‘design’ in the context go East Asia holds...
Empathy is the ability to understand and identify with the context, emotions, goals, and motivations of others. In order to design great user experiences, successful design actively seeks empathy for its target users. Empathy is used in the design process to gather subjective information on the one hand and analyze it objectively on the other. The best way to gather subjective information is to...
Interaction design is all about creating a conversation between the user and the product. Just think about an ATM: your goal is to get money from it when you visit the ATM. Now there are three ways by which you can interact with the machine: with the help of voice command, by using the touchpad, with the help of the touchscreen. Interaction design is all about deciding which would be the most...
In ‘Aesthetic Interaction: A Framework,’ professors Paul Locher, Kees Overbeeke, and Stephan Wensveen introduce us to a different kind of aesthetics, this one residing within a product’s relationship to its users. Words we might find familiar in conversations about aesthetics—e.g., fun, engagement, and delight—are considered too ambiguous to properly describe the effects of aesthetic interactive...
Implicit interactions could be broken down as: something “that does not require explicit commands from a user, i.e., a system can take appropriate actions to support a user’s primary task or related tasks autonomously.1” This idea is something that is not as fully fleshed out when it comes to computer human implicit interactions because those small interactions often are overlooked and we do not...
This academic journal essay is about design thinking. How design thinking works in libraries. A design approach to the delivery of outstanding services can help library professionals become strategizers and problem-solvers who put the user experience first. As Roger Martin says: “A way of approaching business problems in the same way that the designer approaches a design problem.” One that begins...