Semiotics – Jan Derboven

Intention and Interpretation

01/08/201301/08/2013 by janderboven

The distinction in interaction design between the designer’s intentions and user’s interpretations has lead to a number of online articles and discussions in recent months. The main argument is that although designers want to design objects and applications with one specific meaning or function, users attach their own interpretations to the things they encounter. How, … Continue reading Intention and Interpretation

Work in progress poster @ CHI

18/04/201303/05/2013 by janderboven

I will be presenting a work in progress poster at CHI 2013 in Paris, entitled Researching User Interpretation Beyond Designer Intentions. The poster shows a preliminary version of the PhD framework I am working on. You can read a more elaborate description of the framework in the paper.