Beyond the interface metaphor

Mohnkern, Ken

doi:10.1145/255065.255067

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“…Schön [29,30], for example, describes the value of metaphor and analogy in helping all kinds of designers to see things in new ways, gaining new perspectives on the world. Moreover, Madsen [21] and Mohnkern [23] argue explicitly that the benefit of metaphors could go beyond users and be experienced also by system designers. Blackwell adds that "the increasing understanding of HCI as a design discipline has led to recognition of the way that metaphor can function as a creative tool for designer."…”

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Conceptual Metaphors for Designing Multi-cultural Applications

Salgado

Souza

Leitão

2009

2009 Latin American Web Congress

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Abstract-This paper proposes a set of conceptual metaphors for the design of multi-cultural systems. The work is part of a long-term study to adapt the International Children's Digital Library for use in a Brazilian context. Results from previous studies along with Semiotic Engineering concepts have led us to propose five multi-cultural design metaphors to guide different communicative strategies that affect both designer-touser communication and user-system communication.

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Conceptual Metaphors for Designing Multi-cultural Applications

Salgado

Souza

Leitão

2009

2009 Latin American Web Congress

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“…As metaphor use is so pervasive in computing it is tempting to employ it whenever possible. However, as several authors have noted [10][11] [12] while metaphors speed up our initial understanding of a new piece of software by referring to commonly understood physical actions, for example, cut and paste, they also hinder our ability to go further and use the full power of computing available to us. Cooper [10] gives as example, the failed suites of software that created a virtual mall to recreate the shopping experience; as one quickly finds out, traversing the distance between shops in a software program quickly becomes tedious when it is possible to head there with one click of a mouse.…”

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Metaphors in Conceptual Design

Hey

Agogino

2007

Volume 3: 19th International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology; 1st International Conference on Micro- And Nanosystem

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A metaphor allows us to understand one concept in terms of another, enriching our mental imagery and imbuing concepts with meaningful attributes. Metaphors are well studied in design, for example, in branding, communication and the design of computer interfaces. Less well appreciated is that our understanding of fundamental design concepts, including design itself, is metaphorical. When we treat design as a process of exploration or when we get together to “bounce ideas off each other” we understand the abstract concepts of design and ideas metaphorically; ideas don’t literally bounce, nor are we literally exploring when we design. Our research is a descriptive study of the metaphors employed in design. It is the first phase in a longer research effort to understand the impact of design metaphors on creativity. We investigated whether design authors employed different metaphors for the overall design process and consequently for core design concepts. To address this hypothesis we analyzed the language used in the concept generation chapters of nine widely used engineering design textbooks. We coded each metaphorical phrase, such as “finding another route to a solution”, and determined the core metaphors in use for common design concepts including, ideas, problems, solutions, concepts, design, the design process, user needs and others. We confirmed that authors with differing views of design do indeed emphasize different metaphors for core design concepts. We close by discussing the implications of some common metaphors, in particular that Ideas Are Physical Objects.

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Smash the dichotomy of Skeuomorphism and flat design: Designing an affordable interface to correspond with the human perceptuomotor process

Kim

Lee

2020

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

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Beyond the interface metaphor

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Conceptual Metaphors for Designing Multi-cultural Applications

Conceptual Metaphors for Designing Multi-cultural Applications

Metaphors in Conceptual Design

Smash the dichotomy of Skeuomorphism and flat design: Designing an affordable interface to correspond with the human perceptuomotor process

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