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Designing with action layers: A bottom-up approach to explore product interaction for intuitive use
Lund University.
Lund University.
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences, Humans and technology.
2018 (English)In: DS 93: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2018), Dyson School of Engineering, Imperial College, London. 6th - 7th September 2018: Diversity or Conformity / [ed] Erik Bohemia, Ahmed Kovacevic, Lyndon Buck, Peter Childs, Stephen Green, Ashley Hall, Aran Dasan, The Design Society, 2018, p. 104-109Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper presents a design teaching approach that aims to support students to shift their approach when exploring, prototyping and testing user interactions with physical products. This is conducted in a bottom-up, iterative manner to change the perspective from focusing on the opportunities of user-involvement during the form-giving process, rather than prematurely stressing the design outcome. Instead of emphasising on aesthetics and appearance, the design approach emphasises how users perceive, interact with and experience products. Through a series of workshops, apedagogical approach was developed for exploring and designing user actions with physical products, based on the notion of ‘action layers’. Action layers offer a mindset of designing, which facilitates understanding of, and design for, intuitive and tangible interaction. The approach builds on product semantics and emphasises cognitive and action-based paradigms to create intuitive and embodied information-for-use. Action layers present product interaction as a sequence of four steps; invite, engage, enable, and confirm. In the workshops, students iteratively explored form, prototyped and tested interaction with users through sketching with physical models, starting with minimal surface and edge treatments, eventually ending up with functional cues and meaningful form for a certain product type and environment. Through testing and evaluation, students learn to understand user behaviour, relate to their own expectations and intent to the design situation, and iteratively improve the design. The outcomes suggest that students advance their insights on how users interpret, respond to and interact with products, which consequently extends their ability to design products better suited for use.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
The Design Society, 2018. p. 104-109
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E&PDE
Keywords [en]
Product design, Design Elements, Product semantics, Product semiotics, Design thinking
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Other Engineering and Technologies
Research subject
Industrial Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-72985Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85057756416OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-72985DiVA, id: diva2:1290900
Conference
20th International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2018), 6-7 September, 2018, London, UK
Note

ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-912254-02-6

Available from: 2019-02-21 Created: 2019-02-21 Last updated: 2025-02-10Bibliographically approved

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