This is the first part of my Interaction 14 workshop. We went through all of these slides during the workshop.

2. A Quick Visual Walkthrough
A Circle of What…
?
…for What…

3. Original Image Source: MOGGRIDGE, B. (2007) Designing Interactions. Cambridge: MIT Press.

8. Parts
Whole
Parts
Whole

11. Workshop Part 1
hour)
(1st

12. It is through a
phenomenological
framework that
experience can
be understood
and interpreted
as directly as
possible from
the point of
view of a
person.

14. Hermeneutic phenomenology
proposes that all
understanding is interpretive (Johnson, 2000, p143).
Ethnography and other qualitative methodologies look
at the contexts of the states behind or beneath the
user’s lived experience.
Phenomenology used as a methodology attempts to
reveal step-by-step the meaning of the ‘how’ and
to see it in an
unfettered and fresh way through a user’s
‘what’ of a phenomenon,
experience of it.

15. Pragmatist
Structurist
Triadic
Dyadic
Object
Representation
Interpretation
Signifier
Signified

16. From a hermeneutic perspective a
whole lived experience is
themes that
meaning units that
comprised of
form
give meaning to it through what a
user saw, thought, felt or did.

17. an experience “can be understood only
through its
parts,
but the parts can
be understood only through the
(Hirsch, 1967, p76).
whole”

18. OK, enough theory what is the method?

28. So it will work with existing user research?

34. Workshop Exercise 1

37. End of Part 1
Break