Design process as a Swiss army knife
Going back to my previous post about my flavor of the user-centered design process, I want to clarify one vital point. The most important thing about having an effective design…
Month: January 2008
Digital product design
This is something that has come up a few times while working at Involution Studios with Andrei and my other colleagues: Is what we do “digital product design”, melding the…
The 4 orders of design
Dick Buchanan postulated at CMU and in his writings that there are 4 “orders of design”, based upon product type and dimensionality (as well increasing complexity level and scope of…
What do designers want?
I remember on my first job out of school, just a couple months after graduating from CMU, one of the principal designers at Oracle had a quick introductory chat with…
Key questions for every designer
When entering a situation for the first time, or when re-visiting issues later on in the cycle, there are a few critical questions that as a designer you should continually…