For Example

Опубликовано 17 августа 2016, 21:28

Design examples can powerfully illustrate concepts and alternatives. Online media offer an example corpus at a scale and diversity never before seen. How can we leverage these resources? My group's research tools harvest and synthesize examples to empower more users to design interactive systems, learners to acquire new skills, experts to be more creative, and programmers to engage in more design thinking. In tandem with creating new tools, we study the psychological and social ingredients of design excellence -- focusing on the role of alternatives and prototyping. Demonstrating the power of examples beyond design, we create mobile interfaces for example-based expertise sharing and goal achievement. The insights from this research have shaped my design teaching, which emphasizes creating and comparing diverse alternatives.