Who am I?
I'm an interaction designer and a post-doc researcher at the Design Lab, University of Tokyo
— Introduction —
Designers
and their tools
The Paint Tube Revolution
“without colors in tubes, there would have been no Cézanne, no Monet, no Sisley or Pissarro” - Jean Renoir
Crafting one's
own tools
Maison de la pensée ouvrière
co-adaptation
We adapt to our tools,
and we adapt them
April Grieman / Raymond Hains
— 1 —
Digital Design Tools
from a hylomorphic perspective
“Every human tool relies on, and materialises, some underlying conception of the activity that it is designed to support”
[Suchman, 2007]
The color Picker
given that a designer wants to select a specific colour, help her achieve this goal in the fewest steps possible
Interviews with
12 artists and designers
StoryPortraits
Palette
History
Process
Alignment commands
given that a designer wants to align these elements, help her achieve this goal in the fewest steps possible
Persistence
Tweaking
Generality
Hylomorphism
Designers already have in mind the outcome they want to achieve
[Ingold, 2013] Eleanor Wood
Quest for invisibility
“[graphic design tools] take considerable skill to use, and even in the hands of a pro, take too much time, time that could be used to design and create”
Illustrator 88 commercial, 1988
Instrumental turn
of creativity support tools
— 2 —
Digital Design Tools
from a lineage perspective
Technical Lineage
[Simondon, 1958]Transition from Celt to Paddle, Spear, and Sword,
in The Evolution of Culture And Other Essays, 1906,
by Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt.
Recreating
Paste-Up
Page Based
Layout
Grid Based
Layout
Interviews with
12 graphic designers
Designers use grids,
but mostly go beyond
Input
based on concept
Input
based on content
Input
based on context
Spatial Output
Temporal Output
Reusing substrates
Manipulating substrates
Reifying substrates
Bridging the gap
Karl Gerstner
Just Van Rossum
and Erik Van Blokland
— Questions —
Reinventing Design
on the web
Why do we all see the same interface/layout?
