USECUES IN THE DELFT DESIGN COURSE

摘要

For designers, featural and functional characteristics of a product are the obvious means to express its functionalities. Usage as intended in a design may be conceived as being mediated by product semantics or affordances. These concepts primarily involve scientific generalisations. Usecues are introduced as a pragmatic design tool. There is a brief discussion of experience with the notion of usecues in the Delft design course.