Expanding your Design Heuristic Repertoire One Experiment at a Time

With experience, we learn to nudge our designs in directions we want them to go, using patterns along with countless (unnamed) personal design heuristics. Our perception of our current design context, as well as personal preferences and design values, lead us to apply particular heuristics and choose a course of action.

In this hands-on session, we’ll start off sharing some cherished design and testing heuristics and practices. You'll be introduced to three kinds of heuristics and practice distilling our heuristics and comparing and contrasting them with others'. We’ll practicing picking out cues from our design contexts and past experiences that lead us to either apply or adapt specific heuristics, discard them as not fitting our current design context, or to seek out new ones.

And we'll spend time designing personal experiments to expand our design reportoire and grow our heuristic toolkit.