Verplank

This article is full of interesting information regarding new fields of design. It is very interesting how Verplank was able to engage an audience using his impressive techniques combining drawings with words. Throughout the article Verplank provides the reader with several techniques that he has gathered throughout the years. He first mentions the “how do you..?” questions that each interactive designer should be asked: “How do you do?”, “How do you feel?”, “How do you know?”.  Then he moves on to the “Interaction Design Paradigms”: Intelligence, Tool, Media, Life, and Vehicle, Fashion.  Following that Verplank describes his Interaction Design process: Motivation-errors of ideas, Meaning-metaphors and scenarios, Modes-models and tasks, Mapping-displays and controls. In the end of the article Verplank Supplies the reader with the Process Example (“A haptic Pager”)- Error and Idea, Metaphor and Scenario,, Model and Task, Display and Control.  All in all, Verplank is well known for the connections that he has made with various different people of different backgrounds.