Session Title
The Relationship between Industrial Design and Interaction Design in Information and Communication Technologies Embedded Product Development Activity
Presenter
Canan Akoglu, Yildiz Technical University and Alpay Er, Istanbul Technical University
Session Type: Presentation
The Relationship between Industrial Design and Interaction Design in Information and Communication Technologies Embedded Product Development Activity
This research describes the role of interaction design in information and communication technologies (ICT) embedded product design and development activity. Besides presenting the relationship between industrial design and interaction design in the same activity, it also re-defines this relationship in terms of roles in ICT embedded product development activity.
This research has been accomplished by having an extensive interdisciplinary literature review, a series of interviews and also by having a case study based on a specific product’s design and development process. The series of interviews have been conducted face to face in USA with professionals from 5 different industrial design and interaction design based consulting firms such as IDEO, Cooper Interaction, Smart Design, Swim Interaction Design Studio and LUNAR Design. The next step of the field research has been a case study based on gathering information of a spesific product through secondary sources and then conducting in-depth interviews with designers, who have worked in that product’s design and development process, from different professions.
Major conclusions of the research include:
-Being a younger discipline relative to industrial design, the role of interaction design in ICT embedded product design and development activity had the similarities to that of industrial design in the same activity.
-The most extensive collaboration between industrial design and interaction design is seen at Planning and Concept Design stages in ICT embedded product development activity.
-It comes out that besides designing interactions, interaction designers work as user researchers and design managers in ICT embedded product development activity. As the products become more and more complex in terms of interactions, interaction designers will gradually need to manage the design and development teams. There will be a need for a new sub-field of interaction design which is supposed to emerge as interaction design management.
-Comparing with industrial design, interaction design is foreseen to have a wider activity area in Planning, Concept Development and System Level Design stages of ICT embedded product development activity.
-As interactions with products become more and more immaterial, service design is supposed to turn out to be a new actor in ICT embedded product design and development activity.
Biography
Canan AKOGLU
Canan has a Masters degree on Human-Computer Interaction. Besides working as a research assistant at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, she is also studying for her PhD at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Department of Industrial Product Design. Her PhD focuses on interaction design, industrial design and information and communication technologies embedded product development activity. Canan’s research interests are interaction design, innovation, industrial design, research methods and techniques for innovative product development process.
Alpay ER (second author)
Istanbul Technical University,
Dept of Industrial Product Design, Istanbul, TR
e-mail:alpayer@itu.edu.tr
Professor Alpay Er is the Head of the Department of Industrial Product Design at the Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Following his undergraduate study at METU, he received his PhD from the Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. His doctoral work was on the development patterns of industrial design in newly industrialized economies. Professor Er has served in different committees of State Planning Office, Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO) and the Industrial Designers Society of Turkey (ETMK), of which he also served as the president in the Istanbul branch. He is an International Council Member of the Design Research Society (DRS) since 2002, and a Fellow of DRS since 2006. He has also involved or initiated several projects aiming at promoting design in the Turkish industry and the public. Among those are “Design for SMEs”, the publication of “the Industrial Design Guide for SMEs”, several design competitions, exhibitions and conferences. He is a regular contributor on design issues in the Turkish design magazines and newspapers. His research interests include design management and strategy, the development of industrial design in newly industrializing economies, design education, and government design polices.
Presentations
The Relationship between Industrial Design and Interaction Design in Information and Communication Technologies Embedded Product Development Activity
Session Title
The Relationship between Industrial Design and Interaction Design in Information and Communication Technologies Embedded Product Development Activity
Presenter
Canan Akoglu, Yildiz Technical University and Alpay Er, Istanbul Technical University
Session Type: Presentation
The Relationship between Industrial Design and Interaction Design in Information and Communication Technologies Embedded Product Development Activity
This research describes the role of interaction design in information and communication technologies (ICT) embedded product design and development activity. Besides presenting the relationship between industrial design and interaction design in the same activity, it also re-defines this relationship in terms of roles in ICT embedded product development activity.
This research has been accomplished by having an extensive interdisciplinary literature review, a series of interviews and also by having a case study based on a specific product’s design and development process. The series of interviews have been conducted face to face in USA with professionals from 5 different industrial design and interaction design based consulting firms such as IDEO, Cooper Interaction, Smart Design, Swim Interaction Design Studio and LUNAR Design. The next step of the field research has been a case study based on gathering information of a spesific product through secondary sources and then conducting in-depth interviews with designers, who have worked in that product’s design and development process, from different professions.
Major conclusions of the research include:
-Being a younger discipline relative to industrial design, the role of interaction design in ICT embedded product design and development activity had the similarities to that of industrial design in the same activity.
-The most extensive collaboration between industrial design and interaction design is seen at Planning and Concept Design stages in ICT embedded product development activity.
-It comes out that besides designing interactions, interaction designers work as user researchers and design managers in ICT embedded product development activity. As the products become more and more complex in terms of interactions, interaction designers will gradually need to manage the design and development teams. There will be a need for a new sub-field of interaction design which is supposed to emerge as interaction design management.
-Comparing with industrial design, interaction design is foreseen to have a wider activity area in Planning, Concept Development and System Level Design stages of ICT embedded product development activity.
-As interactions with products become more and more immaterial, service design is supposed to turn out to be a new actor in ICT embedded product design and development activity.
Biography
Canan AKOGLU
Canan has a Masters degree on Human-Computer Interaction. Besides working as a research assistant at Yildiz Technical University in Istanbul, she is also studying for her PhD at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Department of Industrial Product Design. Her PhD focuses on interaction design, industrial design and information and communication technologies embedded product development activity. Canan’s research interests are interaction design, innovation, industrial design, research methods and techniques for innovative product development process.
Alpay ER (second author)
Istanbul Technical University,
Dept of Industrial Product Design, Istanbul, TR
e-mail:alpayer@itu.edu.tr
Professor Alpay Er is the Head of the Department of Industrial Product Design at the Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Following his undergraduate study at METU, he received his PhD from the Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK. His doctoral work was on the development patterns of industrial design in newly industrialized economies. Professor Er has served in different committees of State Planning Office, Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO) and the Industrial Designers Society of Turkey (ETMK), of which he also served as the president in the Istanbul branch. He is an International Council Member of the Design Research Society (DRS) since 2002, and a Fellow of DRS since 2006. He has also involved or initiated several projects aiming at promoting design in the Turkish industry and the public. Among those are “Design for SMEs”, the publication of “the Industrial Design Guide for SMEs”, several design competitions, exhibitions and conferences. He is a regular contributor on design issues in the Turkish design magazines and newspapers. His research interests include design management and strategy, the development of industrial design in newly industrializing economies, design education, and government design polices.