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Qualities of use …
- It’s necessary for a designer to know what a product is, and
meaning of it
- Simplifies the design work and implementation
- What one design it for
- What one design into the system.
- Does it exist similar accepted qualities of use for interaction
design as in the ”world of cars”?
- Is the area so unique?
- Or does it exist more general qualities of use?
- The app-market has it changed this?
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Qualities of use …
- Qualities of use and structural properties
- Objectivity and subjectivity
- Measurable or not, the important thing is to be able to reason
and think around these properties
- We need powerful tool (cognitive tools)
- Articulation as approach and design skill
- Experience does not make it worse
- Qualities for a product are not general and are not directly
transferable others
- Critical thinking and reasoning
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Articulation and experience
- The Sami language is greatly influenced by the traditional Sami
way of life. It is very rich in words and nuances relating to the nature and reindeer herding. In the reindeer herding Sami language is especially helpful because there are several hundred words concerning reindeers: age, color, body type or how the horns look. With one Sami word you can say something that needed many Swedish word.
- In Sápmi the ground is covered by snow for more than half of
the year and there are more than a hundred words to describe snow and frost. They indicate the amount of snow, the snow's texture, its buoyancy, snow surface, different types of skiing and sleighing, the pristine snow, traces of various kinds, frost and snow on shrubs and trees. The words also comprises bare spots, melting snow and patches of snow in the summer.
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Qualities of use …
“…En kall mörk vinterdag halkar Esajas ner från ett hustak och slår ihjäl sig. Smilla vägrar att tro på polisens förklaringar om olyckshändelse. Hon har sett Esajas fotspår i snön. Och fröken Smilla har känsla för snö…” Ur Fröken Smillas känsla för snö, av Peter Høeg
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"... A cold dark winter's day Esajas slipping down from the roof of a house and die. Smilla refuses to believe the police's explanation on the accident. She has seen Esajas footprints in the snow. Miss Smilla has a sense for snow... " From Smilla's Sense of Snow, by Peter Høeg
— Design of Emergent Interaction Systems —
Qualities of use …
- Measurable or not - all and a little more will be established
- r designed into a design situation
- Impossible to take everything into account
- The complexity
- The frames for the project will put pressure on the
design work
- External factors will limit the design
- Culture, trends, …
- Once again ... it is necessary for a designer to know what their
product is and do ...
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Expectation Playability Seduction Relevance Usefulness Social manoeuvre Identity Personal contact Plasticity Flow/Immersion Control/independence
Elegance Transparancy Efficiency Ambigiuty Surprise Para funtionality
Motivation M e a n i n g M a k i n g Motivation I m m e d i a t e e x p e r i e n c e Social dimensions Structural qualities Motivation I m m e d i a t e e x p e r i e n c e Social dimensions Structural qualities M e a n i n g M a k i n g
Qualities of use...
