Desires are shaped? Reminds me of Sir Amir’s class where he mentioned that we are primed, our interactions are conditioned. Our eye is conditioned to move in a certain way, in a certain pattern. If that pattern is disrupted due to focus shifts, It gets exhausting. According to Pierre Bourdie…

Interaction designers and industrial designers come across with this term Affordance and associated terms like metaphors, mental models, visibility & feedback. All these terms are interrelated. Affordance can be defined with connection of perception and action. An affordance depends upon visibility first which is dependent on simplicity. …

The second session had more of an ambiance of Philosophy and human psychology. We talked about how an invisible design is good design and how bad is that design which distracts us from performing the actual task. It reminded me of our recent session of Principles of interaction design with…

Reflection of 1st session (Design And The Human Condition) The first session of this course was quite overwhelming in terms of giving us a reality check about many things like: Human-centered research Absent fields of studies Miro-interaction Why aren’t there any ‘Design scholars’/ ‘Design researchers’? Psychology has always been my…