(1791) TEACHING VISUAL AND USER INTERFACE DESIGN IN ICT FIELD A CRITICAL REVIEW OF (DIGITAL) DESIGN MANUALS

摘要

Nowadays learning in the field of Information and Communication Technologies has become a longtermprocess and cultural-hybrid experience in an always-changing-world. The fast evolution - both incomplexity and variety - of devices and applications is increasing the need of an even more usercenteredapproach to design and development of digital services and artefacts.According to this evolution User Experience (Ux) and User Interface (UI) design play a strategic role inplanning and solving interaction between people and communication ecosystems also for people withtechnical or humanistic background.Therefore acquiring skills in the field of communication, visual and interactive design is becoming acrucial challenge also in non-design vocational courses and degrees.The paper is aimed to present the first outcomes of the wider research project Zero DesignBackground focused on the theoretical and practical problem of teaching - visual and UI - designdisciplines outside the project culture.The research plan approaches both on- and off-line visual and UI design field - graphic design andgraphical/multimodal user interface design - and relatives issue of teaching such principles and praxisin a learning context where design thinking, culture and methods are not the previous and knowledgesharedbackground. The project covers the visual and UI design teaching field mapping, analysing andreviewing a wide and heterogeneous resources such as basic design literature and bibliography,Visual/Graphic/Ux/Interaction/UI/web design courses - bachelor and master degrees both public andprivate - on line forums, blogs on-line community and resources, magazines and periodicalpublications, software and/or on-line learning platforms.