Paper Info
Title
MoMA and the three-legged stool: fostering creative insight in interactive system design
Abstract
We view the design of interactive systems as a three-legged stool. The legs are: an understanding of technology, an understanding of the users and the use context, and creative insight. As the metaphor implies, if any of the legs is missing, the stool will not stand. Although much work has gone into the effort to develop tools and methodologies to enable programmers and designers to create outstanding applications, we believe the hard truth is that good design requires skill, and creative insight is an essential ingredient that must be recognized and supported. Although it is difficult to manage, plan for, and control insight and creativity, we can create an atmosphere in which creative insight is encouraged, recognized and valued. In this design study, we offer guidelines for creating this environment and present some examples of their application to a project on which we are currently working with The Museum of Modern Art in New York. The project explores learning by ddiscovery and grows out of our research into cognitive HCI.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1145/347642.347660
Symposium on Designing Interactive Systems
Keywords
Field
DocType
good design,creative insight,modern art,cognitive hci,design study,essential ingredient,prototyping,participatory design,hard truth,software design methodology,discovery learning,control insight,new york,interactive system design,user-centered design,software design,three-legged stool,human-computer interaction,hci,user centered design,human computer interaction
Modern art,Software design,Participatory design,Computer science,Systems design,Human–computer interaction,Discovery learning,Creativity,Metaphor,User-centered design
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
1-58113-219-0
3
0.58
References 
Authors
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lauretta Jones1787.61
Sharon L. Greene2345.16