Design for Non-Designers

How Expert Designers Design

In both business training and higher professional education there is a clear shift towards competencybased learning to cope with fast technological and societal changes. Competencies can be construed as abilities that enable learners to recognize and define new problems in their domain of study and future work as well as solve these problems (Kirschner, van Vilsteren, Hummel, & Wigman, 1997). A...

Design Aid Tools for User Interface Designers

Empirical results have shown that there is a real need for user interface development tools with domain competence based on human factors knowledge practised, and extended during ongoing use-in other words, development tools in which designers learn an demand. The paper addresses an important research approach in the area of user interface development tools, namely to discover helpful, unobtrus...

Design Aid Tools for User Interface Designers

User-centred design for industrial designers

The association between human computer interaction methods within traditional design methods is presented in this paper. The engineering degree of industrial design and product development is composed by subjects and an international mobility program that facilitates this relationship. For this reason the role playing model is used with the aim to work with multidisciplinary teams. This paper s...

Beyond Product Design – User Centred Design Methods for Vehicle Designers

A crucial part of the practical application of user-centred design depends on the introduction of user-centred design principles into mainstream design education so that they can be taken forward by the next generation of designers into industry. However, user-centred design teaching is currently under-represented in design education as a whole, and vehicle design in particular. This paper look...