The Interaction Design Research Triangle of Design Practice, Design Studies, and Design Exploration

Design Issues ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 4-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Fallman
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Exploration ◽  
Design Studies ◽  
Research Triangle

scholarly journals Using Fällman’s Interaction Design Research Triangle as a Methodological Tool for Research About Reading Spaces in Schools

2020 ◽  
pp. 109-122
Author(s):  
Emma Dyer
Keyword(s):  
Human Computer Interaction ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Research Study ◽  
School Design ◽  
Secondary Findings ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
English Classrooms ◽  
Research Triangle

AbstractThis chapter describes the innovative use of a pre-existing framework from the field of Human–Computer Interaction to explore and reimagine reading spaces for beginner readers in primary schools in England. The chapter details the four phases of the research study, from a conceptual level to a physical outcome (a reading nook), the latter providing secondary findings about the value of secluded reading spaces for students in two English classrooms. In adapting and developing a design methodology within an educational context, it is hoped that this research will stimulate communication and dialogue between architects, educators, policy-makers and students. It also offers a contribution to the challenge of improving school design for pupils and practitioners by offering a framework through which education, specifically reading, can be viewed through the prism of design.

On transforming transition design

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid MULDER ◽  
Maaike VAN SELM
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Studies ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
The Future ◽  
Transitional Times ◽  
The Right ◽  
Do So ◽  
Three Phases

We are living in transitional times. Much has been under debate on the need to change and to cope with societal transitions, less emphasis, however, is devoted on how to do so. Therefore, one of the primary questions in Transition Design is how to design for sustainable transitions? The current work aims to evaluate ‘transition design studies’ by analysing and evaluating the current available practice of transition design in order to contribute to the field in two ways: first, by maturing through evaluation, and second, by identifying points of further research. Our findings show that three phases can be distinguished within transition design processes: Design research to understand past, present, and to envision the future; Designing interventions to create the right thing, at the right place, at the right time, and Design practice for transition that accumulate the design interventions in order to drive societal transitions.

scholarly journals MAPPING AND ENHANCING DESIGN STUDIES WITH PSI META-THEORETIC DESIGN FRAMEWORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 2007-2016
Author(s):  
Yoram Reich ◽  
Eswaran Subrahmanian
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
The Other ◽  
Design Studies ◽  
Abstraction Level ◽  
Follow Up Studies ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Abstract Framework ◽  
Tools And Methods

AbstractDesign research as a field has been studied from diverse perspectives starting from product inception to their disposal. The product of these studies includes knowledge, tools, methods, processes, frameworks, approaches, and theories. The contexts of these studies are innumerable. The unit of these studies varies from individuals to organizations, using a variety of theoretical tools and methods that have fragmented the field, making it difficult to understand the map of this corpus of knowledge across this diversity.In this paper, we propose a model-based approach that on the one hand, does not delve into the details of the design object itself, but on the other hand, unifies the description of design problem at another abstraction level. The use of this abstract framework allows for describing and comparing underlying models of published design studies using the same language to place them in the right context in which design takes place and to enable to inter-relate them, to understand the wholes and the parts of design studies.Patterns of successful studies could be generated and used by researchers to improve the design of new studies, understand the outcome of existing studies, and plan follow-up studies.

scholarly journals On the significance of making in interaction design research

interactions ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Löwgren
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Design ◽  
Design Research

scholarly journals Designing a Renaissance for Digital News Media

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 115-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anette Novak
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Design Research ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital News ◽  
The Media

User participation in the journalistic context has theoretically been possible since the emergence of the Internet. The few interface formats which have been developed to link newsrooms and citizens have, however, not followed the same explosive development as other parts of the media landscape. One reason often referred to by the scientific community is the defensive newsroom culture. This essay presents an alternative interpretation and argues that bridging the gap between interaction design research, media and communications research, and practitioners within digital news media, could shed new light on the stalled process of newsroom co-creation with users.

scholarly journals Making design research relevant for design practice: What is in the way?

2022 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 101063
Author(s):  
Marieke Zielhuis ◽  
Froukje Sleeswijk Visser ◽  
Daan Andriessen ◽  
Pieter Jan Stappers
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
The Way

The Communicative Nature of Space in Organizations

2017 ◽  
pp. 58-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia W. Kupritz
Keyword(s):  
Physical Properties ◽  
Organizational Communication ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Organizational Strategies ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Communication Design ◽  
Physical Setting ◽  
Communication Needs

This chapter examines the important role of space in communication. Design scholars have long recognized the importance of context, but few have gone further than to acknowledge that space has a communicative dimension. While design research has investigated certain aspects of communication (especially some of the symbolic properties) in organizations, it has not examined the full spectrum of symbolic and physical properties of space that affect interpersonal, group and organizational communication needs. The physical setting communicates messages through its symbolic properties. Just as importantly, it supports or impedes our ability to use visual, auditory, tactile/haptic, and olfactory cues through its physical properties that help convey and interpret messages in social interaction. Design solutions that effectively utilize symbolic and physical properties of space to accommodate interpersonal, group and organizational communication needs support organizational strategies to maximize worker opportunity to perform in today's workplace.

Creative Drawings as Intuitive Probes for Evaluating Interface Preferences

2013 ◽  
Vol 311 ◽  
pp. 360-365
Author(s):  
Tsen Yao Chang
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Interaction Design ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Web Design ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Emotional Reactions ◽  
Emotional Engagement ◽  
Web Interface ◽  
Visual Aesthetics ◽  
Usability Tests

Achieving a balance between visual aesthetics and usability to enhance user experience has enjoyed an increasing popularity in Web design. This study combines creative drawings as intuitive probes to investigate users’ emotional reactions and needs. The basic purpose of these creative exercises is to inspire design researchers and practitioners into applying a strategy in practicable design research to probe real user experiences and create an enjoyable and effective user environment. Emotional engagement with design is vital in design research. Unfortunately, laboratory usability tests often involve complex technical and mechanical tools that discourage user participation, thus limiting the opportunity to receive feedback. The research exercise in this study includes a series of intuitive practices that engaged the participants as target users to sketch an imagined garden layout, a library landscape layout, and a personal home page. We hypothesized from their drawings that a connection exists among the users’ sketches, Web interface preferences, and a classification of personality types. Significant results were obtained: (1) Creative drawing is an effective tool in understanding the personality of a user; (2) Three graphic practices establish emotional connections with the users’ Web interface preferences and product design; and (3) User personality categorization reveals preferences in Web interface and product design. This study focused on the effect of visual aesthetics and user-friendly methods on usability assessments in response to the increasing emotional conciliation of human-computer interaction design. These findings are beneficial in keeping abreast with the developments in design creativity and the qualitative contributions of design inspiration.

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