Submission reminder: please include your last name in the title of your file name, include your name in the document itself, and save as a (reduced size) PDF
Review of Project 1 submissions:
- Overall conclusions concerning the relationship of form and function in the building?
- Recommendations? What would you do to improve it from a user-responsive point of view?
- Relevance of project elements to IT?
- IT is the how, DESIGN is the why -- we are seeking, through these activities, to get "behind" user experience.
- Instead of simply adapting to the frustrations of our daily interactions with design, we need to understand, experientially, the nature of user-experience.
- An interaction is an interaction whether with a door handle, a smart phone, an app, or a web page -- they operate the same way because, cognitively, we, the users, engage with them in the same way.
- Since we intuitively know from experience how things work in the physical world we, as the Krug book shows, need to look to it for guidance on how to create successful user experiences in the virtual world.
Introduce affordances/signifiers, constraints, and mapping
Affordances/Signifiers -- good or bad?
Constraints -- good or bad?
Mapping -- good or bad?
Homework due Monday, 29 September at noon: This is an extension.
- Each group should find and photograph at least one good and bad example, of a similar type, of intentionally-designed affordances/signifiers, constraints, and mappings on the IUB campus, or in Bloomington. You can consider analyzing remote controls, gasoline pumps, self-service check outs, and product packaging. Submit as a PDF through the Assignments portion of Oncourse. Include Title and subtitle, headings and subheadings, images, and short captions describing why your choices are good or bad examples of affordances/signifiers, constraints, and mapping.
- Begin finding examples and taking photos of them before Wednesday, 24 September, however.
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