ArchChive Design Prototype for a web-based design collaboration tool for architects/designers

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ArchChive Design Prototype for a web-based
design collaboration tool for architects/designers

• Thesis Project
• Anjali AroraMay 3, 05

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What is my thesis about?

• Information Aesthetics Making data meaningful
  informing as well as moving the user.
• Emotional design/aesthetics information design
  possible in a business context??
• User experience experiments

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Why Emotional Design?

• Aesthetics matter attractive things work better-
  Don Norman
• Affect changes the operating parameters of
  cognition positive affect enhances creative,
  breadth-first thinking whereas negative affect
  focuses cognition, enhancing depth-first
  processing, almost tunnel vision.
• Good design means that beauty and usability are
  in balance.

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Why Emotional Design-2

• Again from Don Norman
• Affect makes us smart, that's the lesson of my
  current research into the role of affect.
• In the quest for enhancement of life, let us not
  be usability bigots. Yes, products must be
  usable. But.

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Why Emotional Design3

• It makes business sense too
• IDEO redefined good design by creating
  experiences, not just products. Now it's changing
  the way companies innovate..
• From The Power of Design,
  Business Week, May 17, 04
• Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us
  the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age
  - ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.
• From Revenge of the
  right-brain, Wired Feb 2005

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What is ArchChive

• It is a web-based collaboration tool designed
  especially for architects / designers.
• It enables sharing archiving of files
  documents in one central web-space.
• It enables annotation of drawings, sketches
  other files. One can attach text, audio, or
  photos to these files.

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What is ArchChive 2

• Enables visualization of information through
  vizDoc.
• vizDoc is the heart of my thesis project wherein
  I am exploring visualizations of data couple
  meaningful information with evocative emotional
  design.

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Why architects / designers

• These professions typically demand a blend of
  artistic scientific thinking, and would be an
  ideal testing ground for visualizations I have in
  mind combining of emotional, evocative design
  into practical concerns of showing meaningful
  information.

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Comparison with other apps
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The prototype

• Lets see the prototype at work
• http//www.artbrush.net/archchive/