H79.2468 Lecture 4 Credits
Instructor(s): Fabricant
Designers are faced with a host of new opportunities to develop consumer products that integrate digital applications and services. While many 'Digital Products' exist on the market today, most are developed in isolation, with a user interface that is designed to support the needs of a single product or class of products. We are rapidly moving into a world in which these products participate in a larger network of media and services, that will need to be supported by a more general set of organizing paradigms. How do we develop products that are aware in this environment? What are the appropriate paradigms for sharing information within a consumer environment? How do we apply those paradigms across a diverse set of platforms with different combinations of hard and soft controls?
This course seeks to answer these questions by combining a strong product development methodology with the expertise of software user interface models. We will deconstruct existing consumer devices to understand the assumptions and expectations that shape the product design. Students will also be exposed to a rigorous model for structuring user interface and interaction, particularly those that span hardware and software interaction.
Class website can be found at: http://stage.itp.nyu.edu:8080/digitalproducts/Wiki.jsp
