the latest issue of the International Journal of Design (http://www.ijdesign.org/) has this interesting article that introduces a human-centered design approach -- the Three-in-One User Study -- which applies a set of methods to speed up and focus on the design process. With a Three-in-One, designers' face-to-face contacts with users are concentrated into one collaborative designer-user session where preproduced self-documentation material and early design models enable focused collaborative exploration.
Three-in-One combines three different complementary points of view to design: users' subjective interpretations, designers' focused observations, and design interventions with models. Three-in-One was applied in a kick-bike design case, and it led to improvements to the initial concept, as well as justified decisions for further design development. Read the full article (from the INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DESIGN) at: http://www.ijdesign.org/ojs/index.php/IJDesign/article/view/212/144 -- { Itamar Medeiros } Information Designer designing clear, understandable communication by caring to structure, context, and presentation of data and information website ::: http://designative.info/ mobile ::: +86 13671503252 skype ::: designative ________________________________________________________________ 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
