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06: The Human Interface: Access, Function, and Interpretation

Each visual form, unless hidden in a closet, will be seen and read. What is purpose? What is functionality? How do we determine human value in the usable visual form as it relates to human need, access, and interpretation? How does evaluation and testing during intermediate creative stages help to answer some of these questions? What is a prototype, focus group, critique, forum, and revision?Does the creative process occure in stages? Evaluating new materials and methods in creating for human need is seen here as metamorphosis rather than a construct or rationale.

useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website

ACM Interactions Journal

The Design Museum

From the Smithsonian Institute Archives:
Unlimited by Design | Henry Dreyfuss: Directing Design | Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age | Graphic Design in Contemporary Culture | Designing for Daily Life, Shaping Space, Communication

The Humane Interface - Jeff Raskin

IBM: What is User Centered Design?

baddesigns.com

Isys Information Architects | The Interface Hall of Shame

The Object Stares Back - On the Nature of Seeing. James Elkins. 1997.

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