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Week 1 - 25.02.19 Deconstructing Interaction Design
The focus of this introductory lesson is a discussion on the term "Interaction Design".
From your short experience as design students in the first semester and your various experience as customers and users, we’ll uncover the variety of meanings of interaction design.
We’ll also look at the syllabus and go through the lectures to prepare.
Reading:
Löwgren, J. & Stolterman, E. (2007). Thoughtful Interaction Design. The Process (15-41).
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Why do we document, why do we practice pitching, selling ideas? How do we share and disseminate a design?
Presentations:
Exercise: Storytelling
Readings
Auger, James. 2012. “Demo or die: Overcoming oddness through aesthetic experience”. In Why Robot? Speculative Design, the domestication of technology and the considered future. PhD Thesis. RCA, London.
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Diagrams, sketching, mind mapping, working with data, visualising information: this is the work of explaining to your audience, from clients, to customers, to collaborators, the essence of an argument.
Presentations:
Exercise: Diagrams
Readings
Buxton, B. 2007. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Morgan Kaufmann. 76-81.
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