In this week’s required reading and watching we read pages from Design is Storytelling where the author discussed how emotion plays into design. Creating something that provokes emotion will give the user a connection to the product and hopefully a memory. A good design is not flat. A helpful way to create an emotional response with a product is practicing empathy for your user. Ask about your user’s experiences, about who they are, and what makes them that way. We also read chapter four of The Shape of Design where the author discussed how our bodies are connected to our minds, and therefore if our minds need to wander then we should physically wander as well. From Design Thinking Bootleg there was emphasis on prototyping and how to do it correctly. It advised to create a prototype quickly, at a low quality and to test it on many people. Throughout the readings and video there were many similarities wrapping around the steps of design thinking: finding a problem, empathizing, ideate, prototype, and implement for sustainability.
