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INTERACTION DESIGN: DESIGN METHODOLOGY SEMINAR

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The presentation should include a 2-pages written discussion, sent to the instructor by the the Wednesday 14.00, in the week prior to the class to get enough time for feedback and possible changes, and then made available to the class the Friday 14.00 prior to insure a general discussion.

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Readings are made available in the shared IAD server.


CALENDAR

Week 1 - 2524.02.19 20 Deconstructing Interaction Design

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Löwgren, J. & Stolterman, E. (2007). Thoughtful Interaction Design. The Process (15­-41). 


Week 2 - 0402.03.19 20 Perspectives of design

Historical outline and introduction of design methods theories. Highlighting the notion of design, technology and human experience.

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Kolko, J. (2011). Exposing the Magic of Design: A Practitioner’s Guide to the Methods and Theory of Synthesis (Oxford Series in Human­Technology Interaction) (1 ed.). Oxford University Press, USA.

Additional readings:

Dreyfuss, H. S. The designer’s role (sketch).

Kolko, J. (2007). Thoughts on Interaction Design. Brown Bear LLC. (Chapter 3) 


Week 3 - 1109.03.2019 20 Design in the everyday context

Design takes place everyday, is inspired by popular culture and in turn is inspiring stories and the collective imagination. Overview of design for various contexts.

Presentations by:

  • Paméla Schmidinger
    • Sophie Anderhub
  • Aathmigan Jegatheeswaran
  • Andreas Waldburger


Readings: 

Bell, Genevieve, Blythe, M. & Sengers, P. 2005. “Making by Making Strange: Defamiliarization and the Design of Domestic Technologies”. In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 12. 149-173.

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Shedroff, N. 2012. Make it So. Rosenfeld Media. 

Additional readings:

Dourish, P. & Bell , G. 2011. Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing. Cambridge: MIT Press. 

Kakalios, James. 2005. The Physics of Superheroes. The Gotham Books Publishing Group. 


Week 4 - 1816.03.2019 20 Human-Computer Interaction and methods

Interaction Design and the field of HCI research are intertwined. Desk-based research, cultural probes, participatory design, ethnographic video, etc… terms that are at the heart of methodologies.

Presentations by:

  • Andreas Fürer
  • Tim FuchsAlec Nikolov
  • Gian-Carlo Huber

Readings:

Buur, J., Fraser, E., Oinonen, S., & Rolfstam, M. 2010. “Ethnographic video as design specs”. In Proceedings of SIGCHI Australia’ 10.

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Verplank, Bill. 2008. Interaction Design Sketchbook. 


Week 5 - 0123.0403.2019 The 20 The experience and the user-experience

At the heart of the design is the human experience: how to keep track of it?

Presentations by:

  • Tamara Trabucco
    • Yao Liu
  • Daniela Spühler
  • David Wollschlegel

Readings

boyd, danah. 2007. “Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.” In MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Learning – Youth, Identity, and Digital Media Volume (ed. David Buckingham). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 

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Merholz, P., Wilkens, T., Schauer, B., & Verba, D. (2008). Subject To Change:
Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design. O’Reilly Media, Inc. (Chapter 1 + 5) 

Additional Readings

Buchenau, M. & Fulton Suri, J. 2000. “Experience Prototyping”. In Proceeding of DIS ’00.

Holmquist, L. E. 2005. Prototyping: Generating Ideas or Cargo Cult Designs? In Interactions. March-April 2005. 

Week 6 - 0830.0403.19 20 The question of the prototype

The prototype is the actuation of an idea, its evaluation, its dissemination, its validation all at once? Where does the prototype stop?

Presentations by:

  • Shafira Nugroho
    • Sonjoi Nielsen
  • Celina Springer
  • Baran Güneysel

Readings

Montgomery, Will. 2013. “Machines for Living”. In Wire. 243. 28-35.

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Youn­Kyung, L., Erik, S., & Josh, T. 2008. The anatomy of prototypes: Prototypes as filters, prototypes as manifestations of design ideas. In ACM Trans. Comput.­Hum.Interact. 15(2). 1–27. 

Additional Readings

Ehn, P., & Kyng, M. 1991. Cardboard computers: Mocking-­it-­up or hands­-on the future. In Design at Work: Cooperative Design of Computer Systems. 169–195. 

Bolchini, D., Pulido, D., & Faiola, A. 2009. “ “Paper in screen” prototyping: an agile technique to anticipate the mobile experience”. In Interactions. 16(4). 29–33. 


Week 7 - 1506.04.2019 20 Evaluation by narration

Why do we document, why do we practice pitching, selling ideas? How do we share and disseminate a design? 

Exercise: Storytelling

Presentations by:

  • Andreas Bütler
  • Roman Engler

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  • Mathias Thomsen
  • Kimon Apeltsotou

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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Loch, Christopher. 2003. Moving Your Idea Through Your Organisation. In Laurel, Brenda (ed.). Design Research. Methods and Perspectives. 


Additional Readings

Brown, D. M. (2010). “Competitive Reviews” In Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning. 254­-263. Berkeley: New Riders. 

Nelson, Ted. 1974. Computer Lib. Dream Machine. Seven Dollars.

Quesenberry, W. & Brooks, K. 2010. “Why Stories?”. In Storytelling for User experience. Rosenfeld Media. 


Week 8 - 2927.04.2019 20 Re: Evaluation

What does it mean to evaluate a work, what are the tools, how is a project fitting its intentions? Is evaluation even necessary in the context of design?

Lecture

Presentations by:

  • Nicola Delany
  • Tim Fuchs

Readings

Bardzell, J., Bolter, J., & Löwgren, J. 2010. “Interaction criticism: three readings of an interaction design, and what they get us”. In Interactions. 17:2. 32–37. 

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***Assignment for all: propose the topic of your essay***


Week 9 - 0604.05.2019 20 Visual abstractions

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.

Exercise: Diagrams

Presentations by:

  • Damaris Büchner 
  • Fabian Frey

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  • Ramona Rüttimann
  • Miriam Mai Watanabe

Readings

Buxton, B. 2007. Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design. Morgan Kaufmann. 76-81.

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Pavliscak, Pamela. 2015. Data-Informed Product Design. O’Reilly. 

Additional Readings

Rogers, Y., Sharp, H. & Preece, J. 2002. “Identifying Needs and establishing Requirements”. In Interaction Design: Beyond Human­ Computer Interaction. John Wiley & Sons. 201-­211. 


Week 10 - 1311.05.2019 20 Innovation for all

The history and practice of design is following that of technology, how do they correlate in notions of innovation and creativity?

Presentations by:

  • Zoë Urand
    • Andy Kirk
  • Sonia Tao
  • Nemo Brigatti

Readings

Blanchette, Jean-François. 2011. “A Material History of Bits”. In Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62:6. 1042-1057. 

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Seago, Alex & Dunne, Anthony. 1999. New Methodologies in Art and Design Research: The Object as Discourse. In Design Issues. 15:2. Summer 1999. 

Additional Readings

Kelley, T. (2001). The Art Of Innovation: Lessons In Creativity From IDEO, America’s Leading Design Firm. Crown Business. 53­-66. 


Week 11 - 2018.05.2019 20 Speculative design, design, art

Where design and art collide: what is your design standing for? 

Presentations by:

  • Danuka Ana Tomas
    • Yangzom Sharley
  • Killian Ettlinger
  • Alessia Wiss

Readings

Auger, James. 2012. “Speculative design: The products that technology could become”. In Why Robot? Speculative Design, the domestication of technology and the considered future. PhD Thesis. RCA, London. 

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Tsaknaki, Vasiliki & Fernaeus, Y. 2016. “Expanding on Wabi-Sabi as a Design Resource in HCI”. In Proceedings of CHI ‘16. 


Week 12 0325.0605.2019 Teach (room change: 4K11)20 Teach

For our final class, we go back to the basics of design: its pedagogy. Interaction Design is though here as a mediation for everyday life: how can you as students use your knowledge to develop your craft and to share your lessons learned.

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Moriwaki, Katherine & Brucker-Cohen, J. 2006. “Lessons from the scrapyard: creative uses of found materials within a workshop setting”. In AI & Society. 20:4. 506-525. 


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