Crazy DoorBell
This app design is based on an apartment doorbell. Through the Activity Theory diagram, we can see how an interface changes due to past experience, motive, and perception through using. At first, the doorbell is just a simple button, but after we put the doorbell in a specific circumstance，people’s behaviors influence the way they deal with the doorbell. This began to shape the doorbell in another way after feed back. The changing of form of the doorbell represents the sum of its potential appearances in situations of use. We can no longer say that form follows function. Rather: the form of the doorbell follows use. It is “use” that causes the user to enter into a specific type of object relationship that is located between form and function. Hence, according to recent theories of form we do not only see changes in the shapes of doorbells, but in significations of behavior.
With regards to the change in a doorbell's shape, on the one hand we have to cater to the needs of specific users and on the other hand every change in the doorbell also means challenging the common perceptions of its users. This generates several questions such as what if users get confused about how to use the interface or how can designers guide users with different perceptions based on different cultures. As doorbells become more and more complicated, people may have several choices or steps to operate them. They even begin to establish their own identities and expression through different actions. After users get used to mediating more information, they learn want they want to express by using that original doorbell and an auxiliary value (function) gets generated. Designers can then take further action and create better designs according to that auxiliary value (function). This process shows a cycle of how design comes from users' behaviors and habits, which then influences those behaviors and habits.
With regards to the change in a doorbell's shape, on the one hand we have to cater to the needs of specific users and on the other hand every change in the doorbell also means challenging the common perceptions of its users. This generates several questions such as what if users get confused about how to use the interface or how can designers guide users with different perceptions based on different cultures. As doorbells become more and more complicated, people may have several choices or steps to operate them. They even begin to establish their own identities and expression through different actions. After users get used to mediating more information, they learn want they want to express by using that original doorbell and an auxiliary value (function) gets generated. Designers can then take further action and create better designs according to that auxiliary value (function). This process shows a cycle of how design comes from users' behaviors and habits, which then influences those behaviors and habits.
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