Don Norman Affordances Video
A video made in 1994 by Don Norman about affordances. It’s interesting to see it explained by in a nice simple way.
[spotted on the Interaction-Design.org FaceBook page]
[video: YouTube – Affordances]
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A video made in 1994 by Don Norman about affordances. It’s interesting to see it explained by in a nice simple way.
[spotted on the Interaction-Design.org FaceBook page]
[video: YouTube – Affordances]
I’ve given this talk a few times now. It started with an introduction to physical sketching for a workshop on stylistic interaction at the Tweak festival in Limerick, and then has been modified slightly for presentation to MA students in SARC. This is the most recent version, and contains a short exercise at the end for using physical sketching in the explorative design stage of a novel musical instrument.
The talk is based upon Bill Buxton’s book “Sketching User Experiences”.
The BeatBearing is used as a design example, to help illustrate the difference between sketching and prototyping in the design process.
Myself and Michael Gurevich are running a workshop at the TWEAK interactive art and live electronic music festival. The festival will be held in Limerick running from the 22nd to the 27th of September, and the workshop itself will be on Wednesday the 24th. The workshop will focus on how to use interaction design to create stylistic interactions. Here’s the blurb:
“This workshop explores the creation of stylistic interactions through observation, design and prototyping. The workshop will take place over two sessions, The first session will start with a short talk that will introduce the workshop participants to the concept of stylistic interactions and the practice of interaction design. Participants will then be presented with their first task, which will involve observing and documenting interactions around Limerick. The second session will start with a short primer on rapid prototyping and physical sketching methods. The aim will then be to redesign one of the interaction situations that the participants discovered in the first session, with the aim of creating an interface that allows for greater expression of style.”
Here’s a list of the books that I have read recently whilst researching for an essay (or perhaps thesis chapter?) on the theory of both design and interaction design. The books are listed below in the same order as they are stacked in the photo above. Although I won’t claim that this list is in any way comprehensive, I feel that there is a good range of books here for anyone interested in researching design, and interaction design.