This article is about an elementary school group called "The Laptop Club" with some great sketches of laptop computer interfaces as interpreted by 2nd and 3rd graders in construction paper.
http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/the_laptop_club/ What's interesting here is the insight into the students' world based on what they've drawn. How their sketches reflect the social structure of their group (friends vs best friends, etc) and what features they view as most important for a computer in a way they might not be able to articulate. Even though this wasn't the point of the article, the approach reminds me of some of Liz Sander's techniques with her Maketools generative prototyping kits. Very much the same sort of research principle. Rather than listening to what potential users say, or watching what they do, interpreting what they "make." http://www.maketools.com/ // jeff ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
