Look beyond function to design great product experiences
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The document discusses the importance of designers looking beyond mere function in their designs to create more meaningful and user-friendly experiences. It uses various examples, such as the Jewish Museum Berlin and innovative product designs, to illustrate how emotional and experiential aspects can enhance functionality. Ultimately, it emphasizes the potential of combining form and function in creative ways to address user needs and memories.
Look beyond function to design great product experiences
- 1. looking beyond function – on a design friday thursday
- 2. its is a perspective. not a theory!
- 3. what is a function? definition that we understand… a kind of action or activity executed by a person, institution, system, or a machine for a purpose
- 4. why designer’s need to look beyond function….
- 5. Example Function: user should have the ability to lock and unlock phone understanding from what we know… Function points: 1. System should allow user to define and store a four digit number as the unlock code 2. User should be a able to unlock the phone by entering the code 3. User should be notified if the entered code does not match the stored code 4. User should be allowed to enter code max for three times 5. User should be notified when phone is successfully unlocked 6. User should be able to change the code
- 6. design ideas
- 7. It is really about finding design opportunities to design more meaningful, responsive and usable stuff Let’s understand it by examples…
- 8. Form follow function emotion!!
- 9. Jewish museum berlin Designed by Daniel Libeskind
- 10. Dramatic, nothing straightforward, nothing functional about this building
- 12. moving from mechanical appliances… …to one smart and intelligent device
- 13. GE ecoimagination - simple and emotional objects to technological and intelligent systems
- 14. a latvian designer has designed a new hybrid urinal system
- 15. From victor hunt design/art
- 16. Further exploration of the same idea
- 17. convert functional specs to human specs
- 18. Redefining ways making things move on screen…personal favorite!
- 19. break and build. deconstruct existing objects
- 22. People become creative in their own versions of their clock. sometime almost like a code that only they could understand
- 23. Some went really extreme with it. Store in Singapore
- 24. Timesphere by Gideon Dagan
- 25. think of creating experiential memories (quirky sometimes)
- 26. If you want people to remember you and appreciate you …most potent things are very small things salt and pepper dispensers in the business class seating of virgin atlantic
- 27. Big and important problem does not require complex and expensive solutions. Some time quirky thinking can solve. But if you have large budget …you end-up spending on big projects
- 28. Mix form and function with avant-garde
- 29. The Alvaro Siza’s Architecture School in Lisbon Portugal http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Tg_RiKIRPo&list=PLAB A0239EA68C47B6
- 30. Augmenting something that already exist…giving it a more meaning and soul perhaps
- 31. Beside everything else….it is also a clock
- 32. Amalgamation of generations…. Jonas Damon, industrial designer Frog Design
- 33. He loved the idea so much that he created this….
- 34. Trust me…he wanted to stop!!!
- 35. why technical settings are always hidden, complex and ugly designs