http://www.inclusivedesigntoolkit.com/betterdesign2/
Every design decision has the potential to include or exclude customers. Inclusive design emphasizes the contribution that understanding user diversity makes to informing these decisions. User diversity covers variation in capabilities, needs, and aspirations.
It is important to understand the terms design and inclusive design, the ethos behind inclusive design, and the way inclusive design contributes to product success. A number of case studies demonstrate how inclusive design can foster innovation and better design.
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Showing posts with label Design. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Design with Intent
http://architectures.danlockton.co.uk/design-for-sustainable-behaviour/
http://research.danlockton.co.uk/toolkit/designwithintent_cards_1.0_draft_300dpi.pdf
My PhD involves developing a ‘design pattern’ toolkit, called Design with Intent, to help designers create products, services and environments which influence the way people use them. The toolkit brings together techniques for understanding and changing human behaviour from a number of psychological disciplines, illustrated with examples, to enable designers to explore and apply relevant strategies to problems.
Can industrial designers use the Design with Intent toolkit to apply insights from other disciplines (psychology, ergonomics, architecture, human-computer interaction, behavioural economics) to generate novel, realistic design concepts, addressing briefs on influencing user behaviour, primarily to reduce the environmental impact of technology use, but also in other social benefit contexts?
How useful is the toolkit to designers, compared with conventional brainstorming? (Assessed by the quantity and diversity of concepts generated, compared with control groups)
How usable are different variations of the toolkit, such as a structured ‘prescription’ approach using a form of decision tree with ‘target behaviours’, a more freeform approach, posters and card decks? (Assessed by observation of participants and a think-aloud method)
What can be improved to make a better ‘product’ which designers will feel comfortable using, and want to adopt as part of the design process? (Assessed by observation, think-aloud method, and surveys)
http://research.danlockton.co.uk/toolkit/designwithintent_cards_1.0_draft_300dpi.pdf
My PhD involves developing a ‘design pattern’ toolkit, called Design with Intent, to help designers create products, services and environments which influence the way people use them. The toolkit brings together techniques for understanding and changing human behaviour from a number of psychological disciplines, illustrated with examples, to enable designers to explore and apply relevant strategies to problems.
Can industrial designers use the Design with Intent toolkit to apply insights from other disciplines (psychology, ergonomics, architecture, human-computer interaction, behavioural economics) to generate novel, realistic design concepts, addressing briefs on influencing user behaviour, primarily to reduce the environmental impact of technology use, but also in other social benefit contexts?
How useful is the toolkit to designers, compared with conventional brainstorming? (Assessed by the quantity and diversity of concepts generated, compared with control groups)
How usable are different variations of the toolkit, such as a structured ‘prescription’ approach using a form of decision tree with ‘target behaviours’, a more freeform approach, posters and card decks? (Assessed by observation of participants and a think-aloud method)
What can be improved to make a better ‘product’ which designers will feel comfortable using, and want to adopt as part of the design process? (Assessed by observation, think-aloud method, and surveys)
Interaction by Design
http://www.interactionbydesign.com/presentations/olsen_persona_toolkit.pdf
Interaction by Design helps you create digital products that are not only useful and usable, but also so desirable that people can’t live without them. Because regardless of whether it’s a website, software application or any other “product with a brain,” compelling experiences create compelling returns.
The same holds true for intranets and internal applications. We help you develop ones that are efficient and easy-to-use. Ones so effective your employees won’t want to work without them.
Over the past decade, we’ve helped a wide variety of companies—from start-ups to major corporations like Adobe, The Capital Group and Yahoo!—develop applications and websites that their customers and employees found useful, usable and desirable, and which have generated tangible businesses results.
Find out what we can do for you to help you deliver memorable—and valuable—digital products.
Interaction by Design helps you create digital products that are not only useful and usable, but also so desirable that people can’t live without them. Because regardless of whether it’s a website, software application or any other “product with a brain,” compelling experiences create compelling returns.
The same holds true for intranets and internal applications. We help you develop ones that are efficient and easy-to-use. Ones so effective your employees won’t want to work without them.
Over the past decade, we’ve helped a wide variety of companies—from start-ups to major corporations like Adobe, The Capital Group and Yahoo!—develop applications and websites that their customers and employees found useful, usable and desirable, and which have generated tangible businesses results.
Find out what we can do for you to help you deliver memorable—and valuable—digital products.
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