Interaction Design Analysis: Essentials of Design principles

Article Description: Interactive Design Analysis: The main points of design principles.

When we started the design of a project , there must be countless ideas in mind. is to do the visual impact of strong, grabbing the eye of the gorgeous style? Or is it a retro collage wind? Or is the most in the minimalist design, so that the focus of the eye-catching jump on top of the screen? As designers, we always accumulate a variety of good ideas, good design plan. But how can you find the creative or visual effects that are most appropriate for the upcoming project in so many accumulated ideas?

In addition to relying on our instinctive feelings as designers and the accumulated experience, there is one important thing that can help us decide, and that is, the principles of design.

What is a design principle?

The principles of design should embody the core of the experience or value of a product or service.

These principles should be brief, in one language, memorable. In the process of completing the project, we should remember these principles attentively. A good design principle is not only specific, it should also be through the entire design. Every principle in the whole design should never contradict each other. Therefore, we can not just think about how to formulate the principle of more convenient for our design, but to do more to try to make each principle and product more fit, better for product services.

Take a look at Google's 10 user experience design principles. (although some old ~ or take out as an example)

1. People-oriented-focus on people's lives, work, dreams. Focus on People–their lives, their work, their dreams.
2. The speed is accurate to the millisecond every millisecond counts.
3. Simple and powerful simplicity is powerful.
4. Popular tastes engage beginners and attract experts.
5. Dare to innovate dare to innovate.
6. Based on the design of the world.
7. Grasp the present, look to the future for the today's ' s and tomorrow ' s business.
8. Create pleasure without disturbing visual enjoyment delight the eye without distracting the mind.
9. Trustworthy be worthy of the people ' s trust.
10. Add some human touch to add a human touch.

It is important to note that the design principle is to allow us to choose among the many ideas more in line with our product ideas, rather than let us based on these principles to creative.

Using design principles to screen out all kinds of ideas, this method works well. But if you stick to these principles, or even just around them, it's not worth praising. Although it seems to be a good idea to brainstorm ideas under a solid framework of principles. But if we do that, it's hard to have subversive ideas coming in, so it's not necessary to use these principles to constrain yourself in the first brainstorming.

Such ideas are not bound by specific principles. Everyone brainstorming, it is easy to enrich and enrich the design, and finally completed.

Essentials of Design principles:

1. It is built on the basis of design research.
2. It's brief.
3. It's a memorable one.
4. It runs through the entire design.
5. It is "easy to use" for a specific purpose
6. It's a collection of ideas that are different from each other.
7. It's never a contradiction in itself.

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