UsersUnderstanding space users

UNIVERSITY OF BAHRAINCOLLEGE OF ENGINEERINGDEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE & INTERIOR DESIGNACADEMIC YEAR: 2015-2016

Introduction LectureInterior Design I – INTD 210

Dr. Hana Aljowder, Dr. Nehal Almurbati, Dr. Fatema Qaed, Mrs. Maryam Obaid, Ms. Amal Attiya.

After research and case study analysis now you know how to design a house

Why do we need to explore and understand users?

It is not your house It is their house

Needs

Desires

Motivation

Activities

Inspire and provoke fresh ideas

Trigger new insights to fuel your innovation

helps to build a design concept later

Motivation

Activities

Needs

How can we understand users?

There are several methods which helps you to understand and analyze users

Users’ Interview

Asking questions

Effective user interviews are the first step in understanding how your users think and behave.

Not only do you want to know who they are, but you

want to dive deeper into understanding their

motivations, mentality, and behavior.

This deep insight into your users will help you keep your

design focused on delivering a great interior design

experience.

How can we turn those information into design?

There are four people living in the house

Example:

Architect

Job Activities

Arabic calligraphy

Islamic geometry

Reading

Interests

exotic tea

Drinking Tea

Buying Tea from countries around the

world

collecting artworks

El-Seed a calligraphy street artist

• What is special about those artist • Their art and design concept • Search about their way of thinking

Mohsen Ghareeb

Indian Tea

Quotes

Poems

Search about names of Islamic geometry:

ArtistArchitectsDesigners Buildings

They design Arabic letters to be a piece of furniture

Sri Lanka Tea

Moroccan Tea

Country famous with

tea

Quite area

A room with a view

music

kashida design

Architect home office function to

suit:Sketches

PC and printer Zone 1- semi

privateArabic calligraphy and

Islamic geometry types and design

guidelines

Reading

Reflective spaces and design principles

Drinking Tea

They design Arabic letters to be a piece of furniture,

abstract furnitureModernElectiveUnique

FlowRhythm

Symmetry

Tea bar

Juice bar but needs different

preparations

Labels artwork

Cup collections shelves

Verses of Quran in specific fonts to reflect ideas and

aspirations

Midnight Teamidnight tea stay with me , let me dream away and flee 

let me drown in your mug, your hot water is my hug

When you think about an artist or a designer don't only look at his work aesthetically ( I mean color, line, texture, ...)

read and understand the concept behind his work, dig deeper read about the way he/she thinks, listen to his TED talks

Kashida Design

Discovering ways to “bring [Arabic]

letters into people’s homes

When you think about an activity do not only look at direct furniture in relation to this activity,

think also about the experience you can design for this activity. For example:

Direct thinking of drinking a cup of teaYou can think about it 

Furniture 

Cabinets

Cups

Colors

Also think of the experience of drinking a cup of tea

(Go to TEACLUB and drink a cup of tea, try to smell it ..look at the color of the tea, the design of

the cup you are drinking in..)

What do you do while drinking tea?A cup of tea while you are reading

A cup of tea with a company ( people you love)

A cup of tea wile listening to your favorite music ...

Comparing Mind Maps Together

MIND MAP A tool that helps designers to:

Recognize pattern

For example:Pattern in their activitiesPattern in their way of living

Reading picture book

Reading poems

Reading History books

Reading comics

Reading

Identify themes

Colorful

ModernIslamic

Ex 1: in the studio Take out your phones, Open your cameras

Draw your self

Start mind mapping YOU

Ex 2: Homework Choose one of the family member activity and do it, for example:

Play with Dall Drinking a cup of tea Reading Tom gate book

Shopping in a big brands mall

loves buying brands

Take 20 pictures while you are doing the activity, for example:

Equipment used while doing the activity, Space design when you are doing the activity, Furniture,Other details…

print them and stick them in your sketchbook you do not need to design the pictures