As a designer, there is a main question that how to make a excellent design. We can also say how to how to make a good design by scientific way. Most of all designers will answer that you need a scientific research to support your design.
First of all, I think we need to know two concepts — — “Qualitative” and “Quantitative”.
When I knew these two conceptions, I was so confuse. But we can understand these in the real life. For example:
In addition, a good research need a scientific method. This is also why we need to learn the knowledge of interactive design. Through the process of design and real products, some professional people summarized some practical method. We could not only use this method, but also check this method because it depends on different situations.
Before you make the research, you need to know the importance of research. This is a good video that can vividly express the significance of research.
Finally, it is also the important thing that we need to carry out in the real project. I was a designer for UI design for two years. Because the product is in the field of infrared in our company, it is not be used for most people in the real life. Thus, we can not easy to do this research because you can not easy to find some people who often use this product. My workmates and I want to solve this problem. We do our best to find more people to make interviews, then analysis the data. But we also have some problems. For example, the Time Effectiveness of research. Because every project has a plan for different part of design, how to use the research effectively in your design is a big issue for every designer.
This is a video about 10 habits of highly effective research data. I think it is very useful. Sharing it in the end.
