What is the impact of each product features on the holistic user experience? Which product features are worthwhile to invest? What are the minimum requirements for individual features that must be met and from when on do qualities become so good that they serve to inspire the users?
To find reliable answers to these typical and crucial questions of every user-centered product development process, designaffairs has developed their own research tool: HUX (Holistic User Experience).
The difference of HUX against other established measurement methods lies within it’s non-linear results and it’s high level of assertiveness with which specific strategic instructions for successful product development can be generated.
The presentation will cover all major aspects of the tool and it’s applicability in several use cases. Join us for an evening of entertaining and surprising results from the USA, India and Germany.
About the Speaker
Head mediator between Man and Machine. Claude Toussaint, born 1969, Engineer and Designer, owner and Managing Director of designaffairs GmbH since 2007. Head of Interface team of designers and ergonomists, joined designaffairs in 1999
When and Where?
When? Monday, November 12th, 2012. 19:00. Import IxDA Munich Calendar
Where? Designaffairs, Balanstraße 73 | Haus 32, 81541 München, Deutschland. Map
Registration: on XING (registration not needed but appreciated)
Sponsor
Special thanks to Designaffairs for hosting this event and for providing snacks and drinks.
Smells are notoriously difficult to catch, conserve and categorize. In my talk I illustrate how olfactory experiences attained their ambivalent and neglected role in the contemporary “Western” sensorium – and how a variety of design and urban planning practices attempt to integrate olfactory experiences with their visual, accoustic or haptic approaches.
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Why, however, does olfactory design so often seem to be doomed to fail? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork on interactive exhibition making I suggest that we often misunderstand smells and their modes of action because of a visual bias.
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An olfactory installation will be included in the presentation.
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About the Speaker
Susanne Schmitt (Dr.phil) is a social and cultural anthropologist based at the University of Munich. She works on science museums and public aquariums, sensory ethnography, the anthropology of science as well as gender and queer studies.
When and Where?
When? Tuesday, October 16th, 2012. 19:00. Import IxDA Munich Calendar
Where? Sapient, Arnulfstraße 60, 80335 München, Deutschland. Map
Registration: on XING (registration not needed but appreciated)
Sponsor
Special thanks to Sapient for hosting this event and for providing snacks and drinks.
Everything started 3 years ago as two young designers noticed that there was a need in Munich for learning experiences around the interaction design topic. They also thought that exchanging experiences in a relaxed environment would be something colleagues could appreciate.
In September 2009, Alexis and Nora created an online group and that’s how the local chapter of the Interaction Design Association, the IxDA, was born!
We would like to thank all the members, meeting attendees and speakers for these years of learning and exchange! And we would also like to take the opportunity to thank others and show you what we did together in the last years.
These are some of the achievements:
- 246 registered members (77 senior level, 54 entry, 27 freelancers, 23 managers, 18 directors)
- 29 meetings (talks, workshops, book clubs, social evenings)
- Members per meeting: usually between 10 and 30 participants
- In 2011 we released the IxDA Munich Survey, the first totally public and open salary and work survey in the area
It is worth mentioning current and past local leaders:
- Alexis Brion (current leader & founder)
- Sebastian Wendlandt (current leader)
- Nora González Dwyer (founder)
- Fabricio Dore
- Collaborators: Marc Shappach, Lenja Sorokin, Jan Köppen.
And all these couldn’t have been possible without the support of the following organizations:
- IDEO
- UID
- Sapient
- Designaffairs
- Ludwig Maximilian University
- REPPA.NET
- amiando
- Scout24
- ConTV
- Gruppit
- envis precisely
Thank you all of you for your support!
Can you create ecologically responsible behaviour by design? Many products today try to persuade and enable people to act in an ecologically resonsible way. Using concepts of the persuasive design theory, these products are eamples of how designers can use their craft for the good. Still, there are challenges to master in order to change behaviour; and there is little experience on how sucessfull such products are in the long term. This talk will give an overview of the background theory, evaluate product examples and discuss upcoming topics that are in need of people-centric design the most.
About the Speaker
Jan Köppen is an Interaction Designer at User Interface Design GmbH (UID) in Munich. He leads design projects in areas as diverse as business software, medical devices, industrial machines, household appliances and consumer electronics, for clients such as the European Patent Office, Fronius, Miele, Phonak and Sky. Before joining UID, he was a designer at SAP and Siemens Mobile.
When and Where?
When? September 10th, 2012. 19:00. Import IxDA Munich Calendar
Where? REPPA.NET, Widenmayerstraße 46a, München, Deutschland. Map
Registration: on XING (registration not needed but appreciated)
Sponsor
Special thanks to REPPA.NET for hosting this event and for providing snacks and drinks.
Update (13.09.2012): These are the presentation slides on Slideshare, thanks Jan!
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