How can we get inspiration from all the everyday technology that surrounds us? A talk given at Adaptive Path's UX Week 2007 in Washington DC.

1. Learning Interaction Design
from Everyday Objects
Bill DeRouchey
Ziba Design

3. Inspiration fuels design.

4. Inspiration surrounds us
in everyday objects.

11. We make things for
people to use.

12. Attention fuels craft.

18. Interaction has a language

19. Interaction has a language
that we create and curate.

20. How? Color
Icons, Words
Size, Shape
Layout, Motion
Sequence
Sound, Feel

21. Why? Priority
Clarity
Purpose

22. Priority

23. Do the
elements have
a hierarchy?
Priority

24. Do the Size
elements have Color
a hierarchy? Zoning

26. 62 59 55 48

27. Tivo

28. Tivo
Select
Adjust
Highest
Priority: Control
The Hero
Pinpoint

31. Clarity

32. Does the
interface
communicate
clearly?
Clarity

33. Does the Words
interface Icons
communicate Color
clearly?

39. Power icon
01

50. Bad Good

51. Fire Bad Tree Pretty

54. Design Problem: = Recording (Good),
and Alarm (Bad)
= Power

57. Design Solution: = Something is wrong
= Everything is okay

58. Purpose

59. Does the
product
maintain its
essence?
Purpose

60. Does the Simplicity
product Perspective
maintain its Restraint
essence?

71. More at my site
of the Button.com
www.History
and Dan’s site
Ideas But in Things.com/ixd
www.No
bill@historyofthebutton.com Thank you.
bill_derouchey@ziba.com