How similar is interior design and web design? Can we learn something from the great Architects in order to become better User Experience Designers no matter what the final product might be?
5. The Case Study
Building a House
Little Brainstorming Time!
Let’s say we want to build our future home for our family.
Let’s answer the next questions :
Who will live in this house? How many rooms do we have? What
facilities we want to cover? How we want to feel and live in it?
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ALBERT HADLEY, interior designer
"The essence of interior design will always
be about people and how they live. It is
about the realities of what makes for an
attractive, civilized, meaningful
environment, not about fashion or what's
in or what's out. This is not an easy job."
#2
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CHARLES EAMES , designer
“Recognizing the need is the primary
condition for design.”
#3
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MARK HAMPTON , interior designer
"Real comfort, visual and physical, is vital
to every room."
#4
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ZAHA HADID , architect
“Architecture is really about well-being. I
think that people want to feel good in a
space”
#5
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT , architect
"You can use an eraser on the drafting
table or a sledge hammer on the
construction site”
#6
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT , architect
"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in
time enable synthesis to become your
habit of mind. ”
#8
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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT , architect
"Form follows function—that has been
misunderstood. Form and function should
be one, joined in a spiritual union."
#9
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CHARLES EAMES , designer
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in
such a way. As best to accomplish a
particular purpose.”
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UKNOWN
"And when a design is completed, it should
seem natural and obvious. It should look
like it is always been this way. And it
should last.”
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UNKNOWN
"Architecture starts when you carefully
put two bricks together. There it begins."
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ROSE TARLOW , interior designer
"When you're building a room, you're
building character, and character is the
strength and wisdom of a home."
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JUAN MONTOYA, architect
"A room should never allow the eye to
settle in one place. It should smile at you
and create fantasy."
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PHILIPPE STARCK , designer
“You create your own decoration, you
choose your color, choose your mood.. If
you are depressed, you put some bright
yellow and suddenly you are happy.”
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DAVID HICKS, interior designer
"The best rooms have something to say
about the people who live in them."
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PATRICIA URQUIOLA, architect
“I want to create a place, like a little island,
where you can have all your things around
you and be comfortable and read a book
and even sleep overnight."
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43. “Design is not a thing you do. It’s a way of life”
Alan Fletcher
Quote #3
44. “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious
and adding the meaningful” John Maeda
Quote #4
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