Blog 3 Inspired by Bill Verplank’s speech

I was very surprised and inspired by Bill Verplank’s classic speech. Thanks to the teacher for letting me know that interaction design has been so mature in the early years. I think the Professor Bill Verplank inspired me the most is that I can quickly construct ideas using sketch. As he said, “building stuff” in the form of artistic crafts. In this speech, he mainly told us about the idea development process of interaction design, from the initial conception, conjecture, and testing. This concise and intuitive way of sketching makes it very easy for me to understand, and I want to try this way before starting to design. In summary, the “interaction” he talked about starts from the user and extends to human feelings and actions. Interaction design uses a series of intuitive tools to give users the most direct feedback. The whole process is like a circle, like a sophisticated system. What we have to do is to learn every link in this system and transform what users see into understanding. The above is my understanding of this speech. In response to my understanding, I tried to record that through “sketchnote”. See Figure 1 below. This is the craft I scanned from my sketchbook. You can see that the center of the painting is the user, that is, the person. I think the starting point of the interaction design is the user, and then the user segmentation. For example, a certain group, or the AI ​​mentioned by Bill Verplank. Secondly, people’s behavior, language and feelings are recorded in the form of media. The media can be electronic products or any media that can carry emotions. Secondly, use technical tools for statistics and summarization, and convert them into useful information. Finally, after completing a series of design processes, be sure to test. Try to make the whole system very complete and really help our users.