These week 3 readings are loooooong overdue!! I know!! I know!! It was because I could not access it and download it to my mac from the commserver. But now I can! haha I’ve been doing my week 3 readings during the weekends. Anyways, there are some interest readings that I really enjoyed though some of them are really long (over 100pages!!). Nevertheless, it’s good to read more ya? you get more knowledgeable=)
Saffer Design Research:
This is an extremely good reading! I like how it guides one from the start of doing an interactive project, and pin points the important parts of kicking start a project. I also found the four approaches to interactive design (1.User-Centred Design, 2.Activity-Centred Design, 3.System Design, and 4.Genius Design) really useful to my group’s progress, as it teaches one to always keep in check with these approaches so that my group would not go out of point.
Moreover, the reading on research was very helpful as it taught me how to do my research properly and that doing research and brainstorming are the secret key to interactive design.
I absolutely love this reading as it taught me a lot more about the starting key ingredients to an interactive design project.
Design Interactions:
Woah, this was an extremely long reading! But I managed to finished it with of course extracting the important parts and absorbing them into my brain!! This reading gave me a structured way to assist my group in doing our project. The structure of designing an interactive projects, with an evaluation criteria (1. Creativity/innovation, 2.Aesthetics/quality, 3.Human factors/values, 4.Performance/technology, and 5.Completeness/presentation) to follow and all.
I like the in depth of how this reading goes, as it is very explicit and easy to understand when read. The part which has this quality was the part on the Design Discipline.
In addition, it also provide useful tips and guidelines which I would share with my group on progressing with our interactive design project.
jonKolko_thoughtsOnInteractionDesign:
Firstly, I need to say that I liked the whole design spread/layout and of course colour of this reading. It was a nice and appealing sight.
Anyways, I felt that this reading brought me to see how interaction design really works and connects with everything around us, and of course us! I think that interaction design is everywhere around us, the things we do, the things we see and so on. It’s just whether we make a conscious effort to see and interact with it. We could all really see the beauty in interaction design.
Though this article was a long read, it helped me to understand why certain products are designed the way they are now! Take for example the LEGO bricks. it’s really amazing to see how mindful and now visually it allows us to interact with the product too.
This article exposed me to see how interaction designers think and how they realy bring in every factor of our lives into their creations.
Alrighty, there I’m finally done for my week 3 readings=)
