[IxDA Discuss] what are your fundamental tenets of design?

[Peter Boersma]

Lisa asked:
> I am curious about what you design by. What are your fundamental tenets of
> design

This slides returns every so often in the Interaction Design course I teach, and I like it a lot:

            designing interactive systems
     is an integrated, iterative process, aimed at
  understanding, designing for, and evaluating with
                        users

> What's your domain and how do you use your tenets to guide you on a daily
> basis?

As I said, this is used in a training situation where, over the course of 3 days, I deal with design research, design (from concept, through structure, interaction, content, and layout to visual) and design evaluation, as well as integrating the process into the overall product/service design process.
Elements of the sentence above get highlighted at the beginning and end of each section:

- "designing interactive systems": terminology and methodology (day 1)
- "an integrated, iterative process": integrating design in the overall process (day 3)
- "understanding [..] users": design research, day 1
- "designing for [..] users" : design layers (day 2)
- "evaluating with [..] users": design evaluation (day 3)
- "users": after every section in day 2, I ask "where are the users?"

Peter
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