Enhancing the design of user–product interactions prompted the emergence of research that
supports designers' engagement with users' experience as an essential component of the …

This paper introduces research that investigates how human experience influences people's
understandings of product usability. It describes an experiment that employs visual …

Publisher Summary Users create the meanings of products in use. The design of products
contributes something to that situation of use. People's use of products could be quite …

Rationale for the Study The motivation for this study is rooted in the understanding that
designers should approach functionality, usability, semantics, and emotion as equally …

Product design is no longer solely driven by functionality. Usability and pleasure
increasingly determine the success of a product. To address these emerging consumer …

How people use products can be quite different from the expectations of designers. This has
been shown during the last twenty years, highlighting the need for designers to engage with …

Product design is more than form-giving. This paper gathers design dimensions from
academic research and consolidates them with those handled by product designers. The …

Generative tools and cultural probes are techniques for letting product users actively
participate in the knowledge that designers and user researchers gather about the context of …

Products result from processes that are guided by designers' intentions for what the products
should be, what they should be like and what they should do. People might infer these …

In user-centered design, attention has shifted from improving usability and addressing
ergonomic problems to wider perspectives such as experiences in everyday life. This shift …