Poietic design : Heuristics and applications

Good design is often derived from user-centred design, and systems have to be too adapted for their users. This delimits the system and the user alike. With poietic design, the system is designed to be less limited and the user is encouraged to get a deeper, more intuitive understanding of how it works. The properties of the proposed design philosophy poietic design are based on theoretical research and examples of artefacts that excel in communicating how they work. The properties, or heuristics, are used to analyse a digital system and a display, and to propose poietic redesigns. An experiment is conducted where the performance of the poietically designed display is compared to an ecological interface design (EID) display. The EID display was optimised for one of the tasks executed while the poietic display was designed to perform approximately as good for both tasks. The results show that the poietic design performed better than the EID display in the task that the EID design was not specifically designed for. This implies that poietic design has good potential to be used as a way to design information visualisation displays

En planering av ”meröppet” för Sävar bibliotek : Hur kan man designa ett bibliotek för självbetjäning och sociala interaktioner?

Sävar bibliotek ska införa meröppet, och denna studie har undersökt hur man bör gå tillväga. Intervjuer utfördes via telefon och e-mail till andra meröppna bibliotek, och en fokusgrupp utfördes med besökare och personal vid Sävar bibliotek. Vi undersökte även relevant litteratur för att hitta hur själva miljön i biblioteket ska se ut. Vi kom fram till att det är viktigt att information om förändringarna kommer ut till besökarna. Det är också viktigt att biblioteket ska vara en social miljö, så det är viktigt att arrangera det så att det uppmuntrar till social interaktion.Sävar library will introduce self-service (“more-open”) and in this study we have researched how to carry it out. Interviews were performed through telephone and e-mail to other more-open libraries and a focus group was performed with visitors and personnel at Sävar library. We also researched relevant literature in order to find how the environment in the library should look like. We found that it is important that information about the changes reaches the visitors. It is also important that the library will continue to be a social environment, so it is important to arrange it so that it encourages social interaction