CRAFTING QUALITY IN DESIGN: INTEGRITY, CREATIVITY AND

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QUALITY, AND MASTER CRAFTERS

• The research on the expert sensibilities of master crafters can contribute to designers’ ability to perceive, understand, and create quality in interaction design

• How we approach the evaluation of interaction designs by turning to the critical sensibilities of master craftspeople and explicating their understandings of quality

RESEARCH APPROACH

• 30hr interviews• Background

• Personal craft identity

• Perceptions of craft

• Influence of government policy on craft

• California, USA

• Caotun, Taiwan (Taiwan’s craft hub)

RESEARCH APPROACH: INTERVIEWS

California, USA

• 10 interviewees

• Anonymized

Caotun, Taiwan

• 11 interviewees

• Revealed their identities

DATA ANALYSIS: CONSENSUS VISION

• Engaging with the tool

• Understanding interactional characteristics of material

• Think with material and tool

• Listen to the material

• The beauty of material itself

• Understanding and taking advantage of the material

DATA ANALYSIS: USA

• Innovation and self-expression

• Uniqueness, invention, resistance to conformity

• Re-inscribe traditional techniques for self-expression

• Making people see the material in a different way

• Creative self-expression

DATA ANALYSIS: TAIWAN

• A Socio-cultural perspective of craft

• Audience and reception

• Developing public’s appreciation for craft

• Raising quality of life both aesthetically & economically

• CCCDP (community craft cultivating and development plan)

CCCDP

• Government + elite professional

• Perpetuation and revitalization of regional craft

• Deep respect for local materials

• Commitment to local materials situated within awareness of community needs

• Appropriate balance between Cultural authenticity and global market demand: Controversy

• Government approach: TLAM (Taiwan Life Aesthetic Movement)

TLAM

• Reshape Taiwan’s cultural image

• National level

• Art aesthetic in daily life

• Systemic curriculum

• Commercial & Intrinsic value

• Controversial (craft)

• Long term, slow, irregular ↔ High speed nature of modern life

SENSE OF QUALITY

• An insightful appreciation for

• Ability to create quality

• Has to be developed

• Socio-material framing

• Creative-expressionist framing

• Public framing

APPLICATIONS

• Interaction with integrity

• Sensory relationships that develop between material arrangements & social actors

• Craft can contribute to concepts of quality through interaction design characteristics

• Material collaboration within any type of digital interaction

• The UX of making

• Theorize the user experience of making

• How people create satisfactory expressions through production

• Socio-cultural productivity

CONCLUSION

• Quality in interaction design

• Heighten our sensitivities, refine our perceptual capacities, broaden our stores of useful examples

• Benefits of a sense for quality

• Support problem framing

• Get ability to develop design solutions synthetically

CRITIQUE

• Appropriate balance between Authenticity and global market demand

• Art? Design?

• Sense of quality important

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