Design Gestures & Artifacts
Lots of the communication that novice and expert designers
do does not involve words. MOVIE 1 can help you train
yourself to see other moves that designers do when in
the thick of work. When designers working in teams first
get new ideas, they will describe it to their teammates
before building it to show others. Simple actions
include using one's body and hands to stand in place of
the actual device. Sketches accompanied by text can get
a new idea across for consideration much more quickly
than a prototype. You will be surprised at how very often
designers will grab the object closest to them and have
it stand in proxy for something without even the faintest
resemblance to the design itself.
Getting sensitive to and proficient at recognizing
the cues designers use to express their ideas can help
you follow the evolution of a team's ideas. Modeling
the use of gestures, drawings and artifacts to students can
enable them to do it better themselves while working in
their own design groups.
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