Multiscreen Patterns – Interactions Across the Borders of Devices

i-com ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-98
Author(s):  
Dominick Madden ◽  
Horst Schneider ◽  
Kirstin Kohler
Keyword(s):  
Design Patterns ◽  
Literature Survey ◽  
Project Work ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Comprehensive Description ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Sample Pattern

Abstract Design patterns are solutions for common design problems used in a number of fields including architecture, software development and user experience design. We compiled a pattern library for the usage of gesture-enabled interactions between different devices with screens, the so called multiscreen context. This library provides simple and intuitive gestures for connecting and disconnecting devices wirelessly as well as gestures for the exchange of data between these devices, like swiping a document from one’s tablet to the tablets of the surrounding colleagues in the same room. The library is the result of a 2.5 years running project in cooperation with three small and medium companies. We compiled the library by conducting an intense literature survey in parallel with several iterations of practical software projects in the multiscreen context. The literature survey inspired the practice-oriented project work. Being involved in software projects enabled us to identify challenges in the design and implementation of the gesture set. Therefore, we generated valuable insight for a comprehensive description of gestural interactions. With our set of patterns, we aim to support interaction designers to choose the appropriate gesture for their given context. The patterns serve as inspiration by showing the different possibilities but also provide guidance how to design and implement a selected gesture for a given context. They help designing the details of an interaction by breaking it down into its smallest parts. To support the developers of these interactions our pattern descriptions are enriched with an Android library containing lifecycle events and the necessary gesture recognition logic. This paper provides an overview of the pattern library. In addition, the structure and the usage of the library is described in more detail with the means of one sample pattern. The pattern library is openly accessible.

scholarly journals Guided User Research Methods for Experience Design—A New Approach to Focus Groups and Cultural Probes

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Anne Elisabeth Krueger ◽  
Kathrin Pollmann ◽  
Nora Fronemann ◽  
Beatrice Foucault
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
User Research ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Radical Innovations ◽  
New Concepts

Many companies are facing the task for radical innovations—totally new concepts and ideas for products and services, which are successful at the market. One major factor for success is a positive user experience. Thus, design teams need, and are challenged to integrate, an experience-centered perspective in their human-centered design processes. To support this, we propose adjusted versions of the well-established user research methods focus groups and cultural probes, in order to tailor them to the specific needs and focus of experience-based design, especially in the context of solving “wicked design problems”. The results are experience focus groups and experience probes, which augment the traditional methods with new structuring, materials, and tasks based on the three principles experience focus, creative visualization, and systematic guidance. We introduce and describe a two step-approach for applying these methods, as well as a case study that was conducted in cooperation with a company that illustrates how the methods can be applied to enable an experience-centered perspective on the topic of “families and digital life”. The case study demonstrates how the methods address the three principles they are based on. Post-study interviews with representatives of the company revealed valuable insights about their usefulness for practical user experience design.

An Integrated Approach to Design Patterns Formalization

2011 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toufik Taibi
Keyword(s):  
Formal Specification ◽  
Design Pattern ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Time To Market ◽  
Correct Usage ◽  
Pattern Specification

A Design pattern describes a set of proven solutions for a set of recurring design problems that occur within a context. As such, reusing patterns improves both quality and time-to-market of software projects. Currently, most patterns are specified in an informal fashion, which gives rise to ambiguity, and limits tool support and correct usage. This chapter describes balanced pattern specification language (BPSL), a language intended to accurately describe patterns in order to allow rigorous reasoning about them. BPSL incorporates the formal specification of both structural and behavioral aspects of patterns. Moreover, it can formalize pattern composition and instances of patterns (possible implementations of a given pattern).

Biologically Inspired Design: A Macrocognitive Account

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swaroop S. Vattam ◽  
Michael Helms ◽  
Ashok K. Goel
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Information Processing ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Patterns ◽  
Information Processing Model ◽  
Biologically Inspired ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Engineering Design Problems ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Biologically Inspired Design

Biologically inspired engineering design is an approach to design that espouses the adaptation of functions and mechanisms in biological sciences to solve engineering design problems. We have conducted an in situ study of designers engaged in biologically inspired design. Based on this study we develop here a macrocognitive information-processing model of biologically inspired design. We also compare and contrast the model with other information-processing models of analogical design such as TRIZ, case-based design, and design patterns.

User Experience Design for Virtual Exhibition Platform Using Lean Startup Method

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Verent Flourencia Irene ◽  
Umi Sa'adah ◽  
Desy Intan Permatasari ◽  
Maulidan Bagus Afridian Rasyid
Keyword(s):  
User Experience ◽  
Experience Design ◽  
User Experience Design ◽  
Virtual Exhibition ◽  
Lean Startup
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