The future of UX design support tools - talk Paris March 2024
talk to ACM SIGCHI Paris Chapter at Université Paris-Saclay, 19th March 2024. https://alandix.com/academic/talks/Paris-UX-2024/ From the 1980s graphical interfaces have dominated the way we envisage user interactions. While we know and teach our students about the importance of taking a wider perspective, the vast majority of tools used in practical UX (user experience) design are dominated by screens. In this talk I will explore ways in which future design can step beyond the pixelated surface. One strand is understanding the physical nature of devices, human bodies, and the environments within which they engage; this is addressed in my 2022 book “TouchIT – Understanding Design in a Physical-Digital World” co-authored with Steve Gill, Jo Hare, and Devina Ramduny-Ellis. The other strand is work over the last few years with Miriam Sturdee and Anna Carter, collectively entitled InContext, in which we have been exploring next generation UX tools, including investigative workshops and focus groups. While not a major issue, AI was mentioned in these workshops, but they were before the recent rise in awareness fostered by ChatGPT. I will contextualise this building on two other books that I am completing relating to AI and Human–Computer Interaction. I will demonstrate two tools that explore the space of design beyond the screen. One, ScenarioViewer enables screen-based prototypes, at various levels of fidelity, to be embedded within story-board-like contextual images. The other, PhysProto, allows physical prototypes to be interactively explored remotely using video clips and Physigrams, executable models of the physical behaviour of the device. These are prototypes of prototyping tools, but also provotypes, designed to provoke you to consider for yourself the future of UX design support tools.
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- 1. Alan Dix https://alandix.com/ https://alandix.com/academic/talks/Paris-UX-2024/ @alanjohndix The future of UX design support tools
- 2. background …
- 4. topics • material design • spatial layout • the body • digital artefacts space and spatial arrangement digital artefacts virtual physicality material artefacts and design the body physiology
- 7. • material design • spatial layout • the body • digital artefacts space and spatial arrangement digital artefacts virtual physicality material artefacts and design the body physiology
- 8. model physical device states the device ‘unplugged’ the device ‘unplugged’ switch UP DOWN user pushes switch up and down two visible … and feelable … states physigram
- 9. model logical system light OFF ON two states of the system
- 11. exposed state particularly easy to understand and use but not always 1–1 light OFF ON switch UP DOWN user pushes switch up and down mapping 1–1
- 12. controlled state
- 13. compliant interaction (1) system state visible through control (2) system and user have similar effects press down UP DOWN press up kettle switch system down system down BOILING Temp < 100 POWER OFF POWER ON system state
- 14. 14 bounce-back button OUT IN user pushes switch in bounce back computer OFF ON (a) (a) switch (a) (z)
- 15. give it to designers …
- 21. physical context
- 22. • material design • spatial layout • the body • digital artefacts space and spatial arrangement digital artefacts virtual physicality material artefacts and design the body physiology
- 23. not just the screen https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cat_stares_at_itself_on_computer_monitor.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Indoor_location_services_on_mobile_phone_(10928087126).jpg
- 26. Anna Carter Alan Dix Miriam Sturdee
- 31. next generation UX tools current state of the art new methods and tools for existing interactions tools for new interactions physical–digital devices audio, spatial, intelligent broader context, tool integration, connecting to developers
- 32. InContext investigate what is being used? what next? build envisionments and prototypes teach importance of context in UX deisgn
- 33. do we need new UX tools? loads of tools of lots of different kinds so what’s the problem? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wlm_flows_draft4_2.png
- 34. UX Design Tools Survey 2021 with 3000+ users HTTPS://UXTOOLS.CO/SURVEY-2021/ Product Designer UX Developer UI Designer
- 37. beyond the wireframe … scaffolding new designers including rich context enabling different modalities https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wlm_flows_draft4_2.png
- 39. investigate what is being used? what next?
- 40. remote workshops
- 41. CHI Workshop Photos: Konstantin Aal University of Siegen
- 44. storyboard designs with context
- 45. tinkering at the edges https://datatodata.com/builder/
- 47. behind the scenes transform: matrix3d(0.208836, 0.0683259, 0, -1.8007e-05, 0.0132405, 0.187365, 0, 1.29374e-05, 0, 0, 1, 0, 840, 175, 0, 1);
- 48. what next? workshops => roadmap senses beyond sight links to service design context sketching made easy early-stage data and architecture integration … beyond 1970’s filesystem AI … maybe something for you? https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bouquet_of_3_Roses.svg
- 49. the future of UX design support tools Alan Dix https://alandix.com/academic/talks/Paris-UX-2024/