The Value of Unintended Human Behaviour in Everyday Product Design

Abstract

Everyday product design strives to identify a fit between people and technology towards higher usability and more human-centric design approaches regarding product concept ideation. Notwithstanding, limited discussions on unintended human behaviour in interaction design studies and ambiguous methods to interpret the daily phenomena in design activities deter a sound understanding of humanproduct interaction and communication: a vital criterion for designer's education purpose. This study aims to disclose a pattern of unintended behaviour design (UBD), emphasize its values from various multidisciplinary design expert viewpoints, offer novel design thought parameters concerning everyday design, and expand the current body of literature on design education to develop innovative everyday product designs.

Designing Product Gestalt: Semiotic and semantic influences of ablution development

“…(Source: Krippendorff, 1989) For instance, Krippendorff (1989) provides a perspective on product semantics as part of studying to understand users' understanding of their practices of interfacing with designed things and provides strategies for designing products that can either afford or supportively intervene in that understanding. Vermol et al (2020) and Hassan et al (2022) agree these messages are carried by the shape of the physical product (the combination of shape, color, texture, structure, etc.) and are ultimately decoded by the user (the recipient of the message).…”