The document discusses the importance of understanding users in interior design education at the University of Bahrain. It highlights methods like user interviews and mind mapping to gain insights into users’ motivations and behaviors, which informs design concepts. Additionally, it emphasizes the experiential aspect of design, encouraging students to think beyond aesthetics and consider the complete experience tied to activities, such as drinking tea.

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UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAIN
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
& INTERIOR DESIGN
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2015-2016
Introduction Lecture
Interior Design I – INTD 210
Dr. Hana Aljowder, Dr. Nehal Almurbati,
Dr. Fatema Qaed, Mrs. Maryam Obaid,
Ms. Amal Attiya.

2. After research and case study analysis now
you know how to design a house

3. Why do we need to explore and
understand users?

4. It is not your house It is their house

5. Needs
Desires
Motivation
Activities

6. Inspire and provoke
fresh ideas
Trigger new insights to
fuel your innovation
helps to build a design
concept later
Motivation
Activities
Needs

7. How can we
understand users?

8. There are several methods
which helps you to
understand and analyze
users

9. Users’ Interview
Asking questions
Effective user interviews are the first step in
understanding how your users think and behave.

10. Not only do you want to know who they are, but you
want to dive deeper into understanding their
motivations, mentality, and behavior.
This deep insight into your users will help you keep
your design focused on delivering a great interior
design experience.

12. How can we turn those information into design?

13. There are four people living in the house

14. Example:

15. Architect
JobActivities
Arabic
calligraphy
Islamic
geometry
Reading
Interests
exotic tea
Drinking Tea
Buying Tea from
countries around the
world
collecting
artworks
El-Seed a calligraphy street artist
• What is special about those artist
• Their art and design concept
• Search about their way of thinking
Mohsen Ghareeb
Indian Tea
Quotes
Poems
Search about names of Islamic
geometry:
Artist
Architects
Designers
Buildings
They design Arabic letters
to be a piece of furniture
Sri Lanka Tea
Moroccan Tea
Country
famous with
tea
Quite area
A room
with a view
music
kashida design

16. Architect home
office function to
suit:
Sketches
PC and printer
Zone 1- semi
private
Arabic calligraphy and
Islamic geometry
types and design
guidelines
Reading
Reflective spaces
and design
principles
Drinking Tea
They design Arabic letters
to be a piece of furniture,
abstract furniture
Modern
Elective
Unique
Flow
Rhythm
Symmetry
Tea bar
Juice bar but
needs different
preparations
Labels artwork
Cup collections
shelves
Verses of Quran in
specific fonts to
reflect ideas and
aspirations
Midnight Tea
midnight tea stay with me , let me dream away and flee
let me drown in your mug, your hot water is my hug

17. When you think about an artist or a designer don't only look at his
work aesthetically ( I mean color, line, texture, ...)
read and understand the concept behind his work, dig deeper
read about the way he/she thinks, listen to his TED talks

20. Kashida Design
Discovering ways to “bring [Arabic]
letters into people’s homes

21. When you think about an activity do not only look at direct furniture in relation to this activity,
think also about the experience you can design for this activity. For example:
Direct thinking of drinking a cup of tea
You can think about it
Furniture
Cabinets
Cups
Colors

22. Also think of the experience of drinking a cup of tea
(Go to TEACLUB and drink a cup of tea, try to smell it ..look at the color of the tea, the design of
the cup you are drinking in..)
What do you do while drinking tea?
A cup of tea while you are reading
A cup of tea with a company ( people you love)
A cup of tea wile listening to your favorite music ...

23. Comparing Mind Maps Together

24. MIND MAP
A tool that helps designers to:
Recognize pattern
For example:
Pattern in their activities
Pattern in their way of living
Reading
picture book
Reading
poems
Reading
History books
Reading
comics
Reading

25. Identify themes
Colorful
ModernIslamic

27. Ex 1: in the studio
Take out your phones,
Open your cameras

28. Draw your self

29. Start mind mapping YOU

30. Ex 2: Homework
Choose one of the family member activity and do it, for example:
Play with Dall Drinking a cup of tea Reading Tom gate book

31. Shopping in a big brands mall
loves buying brands

32. Take 20 pictures while you are doing the activity, for example:
Equipment used while doing the activity,
Space design when you are doing the activity,
Furniture,
Other details…
print them and stick them in your sketchbook
you do not need to design the pictures