Interface design: A semiotic paradigm

Interface design: A semiotic paradigm*

Design principles are semiotic by nature. To design means to structure systems of signs in such a way as to make possible the achievement of human goals: communication (as a form of social interaction), engineering (as a form of applied technical rationality), business (as a form of shared efficiency), architecture, art, education, etcetera. Design comes about in an environment traditionally ca...

Semiotic Morphisms, Representations and Blending for Interface Design

Two Paradigms of Linguistics: the Semiotic versus Non-semiotic Paradigm

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A Semiotic Model of User-interface Metaphor

User-interface metaphor is an extremely popular technique for creating usable user-interfaces. Although there has been considerable research into its application in practical settings, there has been little investigation into the concept itself. This paper applies Peircean semiotics to user-interface metaphor in order to provide a structured model of the concept. As an end result, a far more de...

Semiotic Engineering – A New Paradigm for Designing Interactive Systems

This paper presents semiotic engineering – a semiotic theory of HCI. The theory has the advantage to integrate back end and front end design and development perspectives into a single metacommunication process that affects the user’s experience and, ultimately, the success of any system. By means of illustrative examples, we show the kinds of effects that can be achieved with the theory, and di...