The Role of the ArtistDesigner

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The Role of the Artist-Designer

• Chapter 3, Winograd

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The Artist-Designer

• Tabor and Crampton Smith
• Agree on a balance of art and technology
• Focus on how people and design communicate
• Interaction Design, not Software Design

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Artist-Designer

• Not just decorative function
• Goal is to create utility and communicate with
  the user
• Symbols and meanings
• Implicit versus explicit communication

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Interaction Design

• Designing the interaction between user and system
• There is no separation between appearance and
  function
• The interface is the product.

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The chapter argues (page 40)

• User interpretation dictates effectiveness
• Interpretation is context-sensitive
• Functionality is NOT separate or more important
  than appearance
• Design is NOT beautifying existing systems
• Detecting/Creating/Controlling cultural and
  emotional meanings is necessary
• Artist-designers should be involved from the
  beginning

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The Artist-Designer

• Classical training
• Invention
• Empathy
• Evaluation
• Representation

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Content and Form

• are inseparable.
• Subway map example
• How the message is conveyed is as important as
  the message itself
• Templates and guidelines are ok
• But are not sufficient enough to simply be
  applied to any circumstance
• Form does not always follow function
• Ex. Beach house

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Interaction Design

• Understanding
• Abstracting
• Structuring
• Representing
• Detailing

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Case Studies

• Accounts Project Interaction design after
  engineering design is complete
• Problems
• Optimizing code afterwards
• Incorrect modeling of the problem

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Case Studies

• The Suitcase Project Interaction design before
  the model is constructed
• Ex. Integration versus Standalone solutions
• Think about what the user does with the
  information, how do they need it represented?

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Case Studies

• The Fashion Project Interaction design when the
  users needs are first discovered
• Follow the 5 steps mentioned, with cycling to
  rework and redefine

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Interaction Design

• What does the software do? What is its purpose
  for people?
• Detailed design of the look-and-feel
• Design of the product model and it representation
  in user terms
• Deals with human experience and subjective
  response
• Thus, not an exact science