Designing Products with Personality

Presentation for Human-Centered Design Certificate at UC Berkeley

Transcript

1. Designing Products with Manisha Sharma Personality
2. COURSES COGSCI 1 - Introduction to Cognitive Science CS10 - Beauty and Joy of Computing CS294 - Critical Making
3. COGNITIVE SCIENCE
4. SCRATCH Programming language used in CS10.
6. How do you create an engaging learning environment through technology devices? What types of techniques help us learn the best? How can learning techniques or methods be realized in a physical product ?
7. By brainstorming and designing only “good” ideas we are unintentionally constraining the full range of potential designs. - Eric Paolos Steve Benford, Chris Greenhalgh, Gabriella Giannachi, Brendan Walker, Joe Marshall, and Tom Rodden. 2013. Uncomfortable user experience. Commun. ACM 56, 9 (September 2013), 66-73.
8. DESIGN NOIR Places and objects filled with conflict, struggles, mystery, worry, doubt, and deceit – our authentic human noir.
10. NOIR + Learning =
11. CYCLEPATH A masochistic method of teaching users to ride a unicycle.
12. Why the Unicycle? Hard to Learn Not common Intimidating Strong, durable, unique friend, shy person in class, once you approach them, it’s a lot easier, very intimidating - Neil Toledo, Unicyclist
13. DESIGN PROCESS
14. DESIGN PROCESS
15. DESIGN PROCESS
16. Attempts Number of falls Scoreboard Displays your highest score (number of seconds on the unicycle) WEB A public stream of tweets teasing/shaming the rider http://cyclepath.herokuapp.com Are you even trying?
17. WEB Cyclepath’s stream of posts that teases you online https://cyclepath-posts.herokuapp.com
18. Condescending tone Menacing Face Back-stabber HAHA YOU SUCK! Can’t wait to post about this loser!
19. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI53tMSMxw0
20. Concluding Thoughts Ethics of Uncomfortable Interaction Exploring unconventional ways to teach Embodying a mean personality in physical form Ethics of Uncomfortable Interaction Exploring unconventional ways to teach Embodying a mean personality in physical form
21. Thanks!