IxDA Berlin: Designer's role in the UED development: – Authorship or engineering?

Designer's role in the UED development: – Authorship or engineering? Talk by Carlo Bernoulli

After January's fulminant kick of we continue the 2010 season with another highly interesting talk by Carlo Bernoulli on our (aka the designer's) role in the complex environments of nowadays digital production. Having experienced creative set-ups of all kinds at e.g. iconmobile (www.iconmobile.com), palm (www.palm.com) or yahoo! (www.yahoo.com), Carlo is certainly one of the most inspired experts on design management and the questions that arise for designers at the intersection of technology, business and user experience.

Please notice, this time we start at 8pm due to another event right before us!

A quick outline on what Carlo is about to cover:


What is UED?
The man-machine problem
-The cognitive gulf
-Design as engineering
-Design as eduction
-Design as mediation

The status quo
-The usability problem
-The performance support approach
-Scenario driven interface design
-Goal oriented interface design
-The pattern approach

Towards a grand theory of UED
Inductive and deductive aspects of design
Forces and affordances
'Determinism'
'Creativity'
'Synthesis'

Dealing with complexity
Objects
Rulesets
Knowledge based systems

UI development as a knowledge-based system
Process
Patterns
Guidelines
Conditional pattern logic

The designers role
Threat and opportunity
Design as a fixer-upper
Slave to the machine

Claiming responsibility
Metrics for success

Politics
Doing the right thing
Accepting accountability

After-talk agenda stays the same as usual, mainly around the cornerstones "bar", "chatting", "drinks".