This paper describes the relationship between industrial design and
interaction design in product development activities based on a case
study. The case study is grounded on a specific product's design and
development activity. This study shows that the most intense
collaboration takes place in early phases of the development activity
such as concept generation and creation of design alternatives. This
study also shows that there are differences in terms of methods,
techniques and design languages in approaching the design problem,
understanding users between industrial designers and interaction
designers. Therefore conducting more case studies regarding this result
might contribute to develop thriving techniques, design and
representation languages.
CHI EA '12 CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
