Abstract
It is now possible to include complex visual movement in screen interfaces, including those that enable web browsing on different media devices. This article investigates the potential for employing movement in web browsing – or more specifically, how motional form may be connected to interface actions. The investigation is carried out through design experimentation. Techniques of ‘motion sketching’ have been developed and utilized in a practice-based research project. The resulting motion sketches are analysed as realizations of complex mediation – by drawing on social semiotics and the concept of action from Leont’ev. The article argues that motional form is made meaningful through connotations and experiential metaphors, and suggests ten provisional principles for how motional form may be used in web browsing. This challenges notions of form and function in current interface design and how social semiotic theory may be produced.
Highlights
In this article we address research by design through reflections on the development of mobile social software
We report on development for the already pervasive iPhone / iPod platform and with close reference to what we term ‘communicative prototyping’
Earlier we posed two key questions: How can social media technologies be explored better and used as a material to design with by interaction designers in the early phases of the design process? How may a communicative perspective be highlighted in the interaction design processes of developing a mobile social software application for independently authored music? We have explored these questions through our ‘exemplary’ design research case
Summary
In this article we address research by design through reflections on the development of mobile social software. We do this to engage in current challenges in designing services for participative use, in this instance that of the discovery and exchange of independent, noncommercial music. We report on development for the already pervasive iPhone / iPod platform and with close reference to what we term ‘communicative prototyping’. We offer this term as one that may extend the range of approaches to exploratory and practicebased modes of inquiry in design research. We illustrate this with one case that cannot encompass all that communicative prototyping may offer designing and design research
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