Reflections of Readings and Posters

Design principles help people to use products because the information is usually detailed in explaining how to use the product in an organized fashion. Plus most product manufacturers have tried to think through all of the possible questions and/or configurations in order to make the product more user friendly for the consumer. But as mentioned in the article, even though experts know a lot about the products they are making it "does not guarantee that they can effectively teach someone how to use it" ( "How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School", 1999. p. 37). I do belive that a many product designers spend time researching and/or reviewing research in order to learn how most people learn in order to relay information/directions to their consumers effectively. My group worked on Golden Rule #1 of Interface Design which states that the user should be placed in control when using a product. One of the six principles of expert/novice learning that could apply to our rule would be principle 1 which says that experts notice meaningful patterns of information. I think this relates to our interface design because there are some meaninful patterns that need to be changed in order to make the Hershey's bottle a more meaningful product. The six principles interrelate so in a way they all can apply to golden rule #1 of interface design because they are working together to make the product more user friendly.