Understanding & Conceptualizing ID

Understanding & Conceptualizing ID

1. Understanding the problem space

   • What do you want to create?
   • What are your assumptions?
   • Will it achieve what you hope it will?

2. Benefits of conceptualising

   • Orientation
     • enables design teams to ask specific questions about how the conceptual model will be understood
   • Open-minded
     • prevents design teams from becoming narrowly focused early on
   • Common ground
     • allows design teams to establish a set of commonly agreed terms

3. Conceptual model

   • a high-level description of how a system is organized and operates that enables designers to straighten out their thinking before they start laying out their widgets
   • Interface metaphors
     • Interface designed to be similar to a physical entity but also has own properties
   • Material Metaphors

4. Components

   • Metaphors and analogies
     • understand what a product is for and how to use it for an activity
   • Concepts that people are exposed to through the product
     • task–domain objects, their attributes, and operations
   • Relationship and mappings between these concepts

5. Interaction types

   • Instructing
     • issuing commands and selecting options
   • Conversing
     • interacting with a system as if having a conversation
   • Manipulating
     • interacting with objects in a virtual or physical space by manipulating them
   • Exploring
     • moving through a virtual environment or a physical space

6. Paradigm

7. Visions

8. Models

9. Framework