Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design

Shoot the Mime

Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But, of course, if you dig deeper, it’s really how it works. To design something really well, you have to ‘get it.’ You have to really grok [understand] what it’s all about.

— Steve Jobs

Bricks and the Graspable Interface

Having seen some examples of how we can sketch designs using simple animation techniques, I want to go one step further and introduce how those animations can be introduced into the context of the larger world and living people.

Simply stated, the idea is this.

• Using techniques like we have already discussed, make a simple sketch animation of your system’s interface in action. Do not include any representation of the user or their body. ...