Process

For process the lecture goes to show an 8 part process as depicted in the diagram provided

This process is used for the designer to go through the stages of inventing, designing and engineering their product.

During the design process low tech designed and ideas are extremely important; these are sketches and drawings that can be on anything from paper to sticky notes and they are used to begin fleshing out your ideas before anything goes onto a computer. Making clear digital prototypes will always be an extremely important step of an interactive design project but traditional sketching will always have its place in the process and combining the two leads to a better overall finished prototype.

Context

Context includes the context for use and the context of use when creating an interactive project.

As designers we need to be able to understand what people are trying to do, how they may try to do it, what gets in the way or helps and where they might be doing it. This pod gives examples for these processes and the different contexts for and of use and is then further explained how different design solutions could be used for the context scenario. This allows for interaction design solutions to facilitate their behaviour.