Goal-Directed Design Research, consists of 8 steps and I’m going to briefly go over each one. The first step is the Kick-off meeting which is a meetup with all the key stakeholders and is really important to build an understanding of what the product really is and build the basis…

There are five prime elements of UX design. The first is strategy, that entails finding out the reason for creating the product, this can be done through a research process that usually includes interviewing stakeholders, customers and users as well as reviewing competitive products. Second being scope, for these designers…

Okay so first of all I want to give all my readers a quick mental challenge! Don’t think about a kangaroo with orange shoes. Hey! Come on stop thinking about it. But that’s just it, isn’t it? Once I said a Kangaroo with orange shoes, you couldn’t help but think…

If we want to look into the question of the use of language in design it’s useful to think how human beings evolved, we don’t know a great deal about it but we do know some things. So, for example it is fairly clear from the archaeological record that modern…

I’ve have concisely discussed the contrast between artists and designers, in a preceding blog on design and human condition. The 5th lecture on design and human condition by the guest lecturer Arnab Chakravarty made me reflect upon the role of artisans in society and how I think artisans are significantly…

In today’s blog, I’ll ventilate regarding a topic I think isn’t attended to by designers as much as it should be. The topic I’ll be reflecting on is, design for the specially abled, (side note: I’m using the word specially abled instead of differently abled because back in 2017 I…

I’m going to initiate this blog with the core subject of today’s lecture, affordances. Being a student of interaction design, the significance of understanding affordances for me is beyond intelligible. In our course by sir Amir, principles of interaction, we have spent considerable hours going over the topic of affordance…

The topic that I would like to initiate this blog with, is how my perception of a proficient design has further matured during this class. I know that individuals often misinterpret an attractive design with phenomenal organization of elements and captivating colours as good design. In actuality the only factor…

The lecture started out with us doing a collaborative exercise using the Miro board. Working together to create the affinity diagram made me acquire a more perspicacious cognizance in respect to the significance of affinity diagramming in terms of design research. Right of the bat when we started to place…