Nancy Hughes - Representing our design ideas

This lecture looks at how we represent, externalise, project and ultimately communicate our design ideas. A number of things were highlighted for consideration in terms of interaction design, ultimately addressing how one would begin addressing an interaction design problem. Three areas come in for 'Design Consideration' in this context:

• Psychological consideration
• Functional consideration
• Visual consideration

The lecture went into further depth about each of these with illustrative examples. It also highlighted metaphors (something with aspects to something familiar but with its own behaviours) and mental models (representations of systems derived from experience with previous ones - like the excel spreadsheet look).

The next lecture will look into the study of designs, designing and designers.