Why do we design? For this question, my answer is to improve our’s life better. Thus, the target of the design is to improve our’s life better. Human-centered design is the most important step for me in the design process. There are many example of companies are get successful by using human-centered design. Facts proved that human-centered design is a big thing and influences many designers. There are many advantages of human-centered design. For example, it may save our testing prototype time and cost. This is because when we focus on designing the product which is connecting with our target audience, they must be attracted by this product. I believe human-centered design is helping us to solve the right problem that will make my target audience lives better, easier and more productive. Furthermore, this week’s reading also makes me understand every design will have its own risk, it is a threaten for the wellbeing if an organization. I think to challenge the risk, it may come out with the best solution for our product’s problem.
Month: March 2020
What is the value of your design?
This week’s readings are more focusing on “what is the value of your design?” This comes from the shape fo design, chapter 10 “Give and Gift.” I think good design is quantified by the experience of its recipient and harkens back to the primacy of the listener or audience. This also is the gift’s real significance. If I design products that are trying to improve my target audience’s life, I should get a good comment from my audience. This is the value of design, I also believe the more time we spend on, the more valuable of the product. I also agree that a piece of tiny thing becomes something that is very very unique inspiring and very mine. Thus, I should stop and look around me. There must be something that is an aspect of the work’s value that can not be described in dollars and cents. These things may help me to improve my design ideas.
User-centered Design
This weel’s readings are talking about how to test our prototype. Last week, I understand the importance of the prototype, so this week we have to test our prototype. The test is a chance to gather feedback, refine solutions and continue to learn about our user. Thus, the test step is inevitable in our design process. I think the test step is connecting with our user-centered design, this is becuase we want to understand deeply with our users and understand what they want and need is the main purpose of our design. We need to get a feedback capture matrix to record what our user likes, what user criticizes, what user wonders, and what user ideates? These are very helpful for our design and we may get new solutions from this step, and then we have a chance to rebuild our prototype. Thus, whether the empathy step or the test step, we need to communicate with our users and build a relationship with them to improve our design.