Industrial design

Industrial design

Industry: Design

Contributors in Industrial design

Industrial design

A cognitive walkthrough is a review technique where you construct task scenarios from a specification and get a user to role play the part of walking through the task. They act as if the interface ...

Contextual inquiry

Design; Industrial design

Contextual inquiry is a structured field interviewing process that involves both conversation and observation. Contextual inquiries requires a high degree of skill from the usability specialist, in ...

Feature inspection

Design; Industrial design

The aim of feature inspection is to describe the technical features of a product such as a piece of software as detailed as possible, so that it allows the comparison between products of the same ...

Localization

Design; Industrial design

The process to customise a product for a specific international market. When a product has been properly internationalized, the visual design can be preserved when it is adapted for a particular ...

Iterative design

Design; Industrial design

Design methodology involving repeated cycles of design, evaluation, and analysis. Refinements are made for the next cycle based on the analysis and feedback.

Heuristic

Design; Industrial design

A usability guideline for evaluating a product (such as the software user interface) to identify design problems. Heuristic methods often need to be customised depending on the product features and ...

Interaction design (ID)

Design; Industrial design

The creation of behaviour and communication tools and processes that facilitate communication between humans and objects, services, and physical or virtual environments, and that allow manipulation ...