Comm Workshop: Early Stage Decision Making

Instructor

Anijo Mathew

The design process continues to be a humanistic and intuitive process, demanding complex explorations, iterative and (increasingly) collaborative decision making. The realization of a design requires numerous collaborative participates, all of which must be part of a communication network in order to realize the vision. Herein lies the fundamental problem, the designer(s) must not only en-vision, and evaluate, he/she must also communicate that which is to BE ... physical, yet is NOT... physical [1].
Engaging prototyping and sketching methods in the early stages of the design process allow us to make relationships between intangible ideas/data and the formal elements that make an idea accessible. Initiating the creative process, at either the individual scale and/or a collaborative team scale, with sketches to think through abstract or intangible ideas in various permutations can provide a stronger basis to refine these ideas with digital images, words, pixels, and vectors later on [2].
The primary intention of this Communication Design Workshop is enable students to evaluate sketching and prototyping techniques in the early stages of the design process. The students will work on a tangible interaction design problem through numerous conceptual, behavioral schematics and design narratives which communicate the intention of the designer as well as evaluate user experience. At the end of the workshop, students will be expected to come up with innovative design solutions for the interaction design problem as well as engage in discussions about the evolution of their schematics through multiple layers of sketches, prototypes and communication peripherals.

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