Abstract
Design involves feelings, and narration helps to instill meaning and emotion in design. Metaphors, analogies, and narratives are powerful tools that help to bring concepts to life. Designers create objects not only as a set of logical propositions but often as a pattern of experiences. Designers link unconnected elements to create new designs. Visual experiences are based on the features of the visible world. These experiences are stored in the unconscious and are manifested through the ideas they generate. Lived experiences that come about through direct perception are a critical factor in the generation of design ideas. The memory of such experiences is made up of a pattern of ideas, thoughts, and images, and by visualizing them, the designer promotes the creation of new connections that didn’t exist before, ones that form the basis for new ideas, and they do this by deliberately blurring the lines between fact and fiction. Narratives provide a way in which designers can explain what they do in an easily understandable, informal style. This research illustrates how the use of narratives improves visualization of product form.
Presenters
Suresh SethiProfessor, Industrial Design, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Illinois, United States Simrun Sethi
Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Narratives, Emotion, Form Visualization
