How similar is interior design and web design? Can we learn something from the great Architects in order to become better User Experience Designers no matter what the final product might be?

1. <Building>
Design Experiences that matter
Lena Lekkou | Head of Web @ SAE Athens
Meaningful
Experiences

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#Usability
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#InteriorDesign
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#UX Design vs
Interior Design

5. The Case Study
Building a House
Little Brainstorming Time!
Let’s say we want to build our future home for our family.
Let’s answer the next questions :
Who will live in this house? How many rooms do we have? What
facilities we want to cover? How we want to feel and live in it?

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#1
Ideation
Phase
Gathering all the important
Information

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#2
Requirements
& Goals
Making the lists of
the requirements, budget etc

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EILEEN GRAY, architect & furniture designer
"To create, one must first question
everything”
#1

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#3a
The Users
Getting to know the Users!

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ALBERT HADLEY, interior designer
"The essence of interior design will always
be about people and how they live. It is
about the realities of what makes for an
attractive, civilized, meaningful
environment, not about fashion or what's
in or what's out. This is not an easy job."
#2

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#3b
Users
Needs
What they need?
How the want to live their
house?

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CHARLES EAMES , designer
“Recognizing the need is the primary
condition for design.”
#3

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MARK HAMPTON , interior designer
"Real comfort, visual and physical, is vital
to every room."
#4

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ZAHA HADID , architect
“Architecture is really about well-being. I
think that people want to feel good in a
space”
#5

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#4
Sketching
Phase
Grab some papers and
start sketching!

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT , architect
"You can use an eraser on the drafting
table or a sledge hammer on the
construction site”
#6

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ZAHA HADID , architect
“There are 360 degrees, so why stick to
one?”
#7

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#5
Floor Plan
The ‘Wireframes’

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT , architect
"Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in
time enable synthesis to become your
habit of mind. ”
#8

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#6a
Design
Material or MoodBoards vs
The Mockups

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FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT , architect
"Form follows function—that has been
misunderstood. Form and function should
be one, joined in a spiritual union."
#9

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#6b
Design
Fixtures & Equipment (FF&E)
Vs Assets

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ISSEY MIYAKE , designer
“Design is not for philosophy, it’s for life”
#10

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CHARLES EAMES , designer
“Design is a plan for arranging elements in
such a way. As best to accomplish a
particular purpose.”
#11

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UKNOWN
"And when a design is completed, it should
seem natural and obvious. It should look
like it is always been this way. And it
should last.”
#12

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#7
Building the
basic
Structure
Setting the foundations

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UNKNOWN
"Architecture starts when you carefully
put two bricks together. There it begins."
#13

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ROSE TARLOW , interior designer
"When you're building a room, you're
building character, and character is the
strength and wisdom of a home."
#14

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#7
Details &
Decoration
Fixtures & Equipment
Vs Assets

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CHRIS ANDERSON , graphic designer
"Nail the basics first, detail the details
later."
#15

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CHARLES EAMES , designer
"The details are not the details. They make
the design."
#16

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#8
Personal
Touch
By the people who start
living in it

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JUAN MONTOYA, architect
"A room should never allow the eye to
settle in one place. It should smile at you
and create fantasy."
#17

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PHILIPPE STARCK , designer
“You create your own decoration, you
choose your color, choose your mood.. If
you are depressed, you put some bright
yellow and suddenly you are happy.”
#18

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#8
Everyday
Life
Daily Routine and the
changes that this will create

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DAVID HICKS, interior designer
"The best rooms have something to say
about the people who live in them."
#19

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PATRICIA URQUIOLA, architect
“I want to create a place, like a little island,
where you can have all your things around
you and be comfortable and read a book
and even sleep overnight."
#20

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#8
Changes
Through
Time
What will change in their home
through the years?

41. Same design principles, same user heuristics,
the only difference is the final product /
service / experience .
Quote #1

42. “Everything is design. Everything!” Paul Rand
Quote #2

43. “Design is not a thing you do. It’s a way of life”
Alan Fletcher
Quote #3

44. “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious
and adding the meaningful” John Maeda
Quote #4

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