I have had some great students so far at SCAD and my not posting their work here previously is not about the quality of previous work, but more about the total story of their work. In the last 10 weeks, I have been privileged to work with 2 classes (my own graduate interaction design class and an industrial design class led by Verena Paepcke-Hjeltness). Our classes were sponsored by Freescale (a chip manufacturer) and we were tasked with re-envisioning the smartbook market with a keen eye towards tweens, teens and some adult niche markets.
The class started out with some discount contextual research methods and then went into design criteria development and then ideation and refinement. The assets of this pretty big story are all available online at http://iact.in/?p=104. I'd love to get your comments here or even better on the site. As a side note, I've been hot/cold on Personas, but I have to say that using them as A PART of the research analysis stage as one of many other models made a huge difference. They are best for having distinct and agreed upon characters for scenario development (which you can see in video form from the above link). I've been using them a lot in the classroom environment and it has overwhelmingly aided students in there designs almost w/o exception. Some of my students are graduating today, so I'll take this public moment to congratulate them all!!! Mazel Tov! -- dave -- Dave Malouf http://davemalouf.com/ http://twitter.com/daveixd http://scad.edu/industrialdesign http://ixda.org/ http://iact.in/ ________________________________________________________________ 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
