Taking into Account Users’ Perceptions in the Design Process: Principles to Create a Digital Design Tool

Renato Fonseca Livramento Da Silva,Angelina Dias Leão Costa,Guillaume Thomann

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-70566-4_47

Abstract

AbstractUser Centered Design approach is used in many sectors and appropriated by many design teams to defend principles of products adapted to the final users. In the Architectural and Industrial Design disciplines, architects and designers defend principles that could be able to create spaces, public areas or innovated products that are closer as possible as the user behavior. The issue is still the complexity of the user perception and the variability of its interpretation of the environment. The research method used in this research is to combine Universal Design and Usability approaches to be able to extract one first list of principles. The combination of this list with the five human sensorial systems identified in the literature give the structure of a tool that can be proposed to projectists like architects and industrial designers to better consider user perception during the designing process. The result of the research is the proposition of a software coupled with a user friendly interface dedicated to architects and industrial designer. It has the aim to simplify the organization of the early phases of the design process, taking into account designers and architects design priorities and integrating the final user specific sensorial situation.

Highlights

Universal design is known as a global design trend and has a broad and diverse scope [10]
On the other hand, [12] declares that “the theme of usercentered design is directly linked to usability”, a factor which makes us deduce a strong overlap between the two themes
The two first column of the following table (Table 1) come from the literature. They consist of the lists of the 7 principles of the Universal Design and the 10 principles of the Usability

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Introduction

Architecture and design give the development of environments, products and services a culturally rooted visually-based bias. [2] points out that in relation to the challenges of the project in today’s world, the profusion of dynamically and complexly inserted “codes” in people’s daily lives needs attention, such as the questions related to intangible attributes, aligned with aspects of human behavior, aesthetic and psychological factors. In this sense, according to the author “new creative tools are necessary to fill the gaps that the methodological models used are no longer able to answer the current issues” [2]

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