HODI: habitus of design inspiration

  • Authors:
  • Ozge Subasi;Geraldine Fitzpatrick

  • Affiliations:
  • Vienna University of Technology, Vienna;Vienna University of Technology, Vienna

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Despite the need of involving users in design decisions, participants cannot always easily follow and contribute to design. Democratizing design decisions is not easy due to the missing connections between the background information and how this is reflected to design practice. Habitus of design inspiration (HODI) is a design presentation technique, presented with an example use process that deals with this issue. It visually connects design rationale to design artefact. HODI is useful to for both designer - designer and designer - non-designer communications. Making the sources visible and available for reflection can help better communication and co-design of the solutions and support documentation practices in design practices. It can be used for opening up ideas to both designer and non-designer communities, negotiating and debating design decisions and structuring and focussing discussions.