User Inspired Design
8.10 – 7.12. 2007
Professor, Pitkonen Jorma
Reported by Jin Hyun Lee

What is User Inspired Design?
• Following User centered design process
• Allowing innovation and inspiration
• Connecting these two through
- exploration, experiential activities,
reflections and intensive teamwork

Objectives of User Inspired Design course
UID
Experience
To learn concept design processes
To learn to collect and apply user information
To link user information to designers' insight
To learn to generate, present and evaluate concept designs
To practice with cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural cooperation
To learn to deal with briefs and ill-defined problems

Topic of UID 07’
“Presence”
•Relaxing, lazing about, escaping from stress
•focuses on sensing, meaning making, and personalizing, being strongly
here and now - being in the presence.
•Can included elements of nature relationship, cultural issues, social well
being and ecological responsibilities as well as service design and
aesthetics of interaction.

Outline of Project ; Presence
Development &
Evaluation
Concept Design
•Idea sketches
User Study •Playing puppet
•Moke up
•Planning •3D modeling
•Cultural Probes •Scenario
Interpretation
Team •Collage •Poster
•Interviews •Exploration
•Collage ourselves •Insights •Observation
•Brainstorming •Analysis
•Small tasks •Making personas
•Literature studies •Acting with paper boards

Multi-disciplinary team
Introduction of team member
Hakan Diniz Anne Myller
Hanna Salmen Linda Van Den Hurk
Jin Hyun Lee
Turkey Finland
Finland Netherlands
Korea
Architect Engineer
Engineer Researcher
Designer
3D modeling Interview
Usability test Probes
Visualization

Multi-disciplinary team
Collage ourselves
What Presence means are…

Multi-disciplinary team
Brainstorming
Traveling, tracks, emotions, love, relaxing, silence, sounds…

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... Are always Present

Multi-disciplinary team
Literature studies of Sound
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research
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* Sound is energy, and affect your body
* Noise causes stress
* Pleasant sounds have patterns
* In many cultures specific music is used for healing
Some examples:
•Suikinkutsu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/suikinkutsu
•Mozart effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozart_effect
•Singing horses

User Study
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