I recently went through a bunch of notes I found on my computer. All of them look to be the beginnings of blog posts, but I thought it would might be fun to throw them all together in one blog post and expand up on them later. (And then I can delete them from my computer!) Anyway here they go in no particular order:
“If you consider Human Computer Interaction Design to be “designing the relationship between humans and technology, then to do it well you need nothing less than an understanding of the depths and expanses of the human condition, and the ability to work in situations of co-creation. To understand the human condition you need to understand experience, language, culture, and emotion. To understand co-creation you have to understand how to enable, educate, and empower others to design.”
“When attempting to teach someone something new, it is better to say “We aren’t here to change you, but to challenge you.”
“The principles of design thinking are the keys to organizations solving problems that arise from disruptions.”
Interaction Design is about:
- thinking critically
- making something from nothing
- getting stakeholders to evaluate their own risks and goals
- focusing on people, understanding them while you navigate the process and learn how to listen
- knowing your process, making it transparent, and creating a situation in which everyone takes part
- designing for the user to promote inward-facing dialog in the organization
Here are 3 different levels of what human-centered design could mean, each of which is important:
- looking to the user for inspiration of design instead of the technology
- looking to the user for the evaluation of good design, usability, and “rightness”
- cultural theory and cultural critique methods to “humanize” the process
“HCI/d relies on understanding people. You can’t design or do anything of value unless you understand people first. Get the right design before you get the design right.”
That was actually quite enlightening for me to put all that here. I think I actually synthesized a bit for myself. And I got some Twitter fodder.
Random stuff I found on Sticky Notes
I recently went through a bunch of notes I found on my computer. All of them look to be the beginnings of blog posts, but I thought it would might be fun to throw them all together in one blog post and expand up on them later. (And then I can delete them from my computer!) Anyway here they go in no particular order:
“If you consider Human Computer Interaction Design to be “designing the relationship between humans and technology, then to do it well you need nothing less than an understanding of the depths and expanses of the human condition, and the ability to work in situations of co-creation. To understand the human condition you need to understand experience, language, culture, and emotion. To understand co-creation you have to understand how to enable, educate, and empower others to design.”
“When attempting to teach someone something new, it is better to say “We aren’t here to change you, but to challenge you.”
“The principles of design thinking are the keys to organizations solving problems that arise from disruptions.”
Interaction Design is about:
Here are 3 different levels of what human-centered design could mean, each of which is important:
“HCI/d relies on understanding people. You can’t design or do anything of value unless you understand people first. Get the right design before you get the design right.”
That was actually quite enlightening for me to put all that here. I think I actually synthesized a bit for myself. And I got some Twitter fodder.