COURSE SYLLABUS
WEEKS SUBJECTS 1st week Introduction Actors (partners) involved in an interior design process 2nd week Analyzing the interior design process - Designer - User - Product - Marketing 3rd week The definitions and purposes of user-centered design 4th week How to involve users into an interior design process - Identifying user profile, needs, behavior and expectations Group Work 1: - Identification of the target group (users) of the interior design - Discussion about the characteristics of the users (designer is a user) Survey definitions about assessing user satisfaction 5th week Designer Skills in the User-Centered Design Process - Designer as a communicator (communication, interaction, feedback and navigation) - Designer as an observer and a researcher (research and survey) - Designer as a mediator Group Work 2: - Identifying the potentials and limitations of the designer - Specification of survey questions to analyze the user group (determination of the profile and needs of the users) 6th week Context in the Interior Design Process Culture, politics, regulations, social norms 7th week Aesthetics in user-centered design 8th week A short review of user-centered design process - Identification of the limitations and potentials of the context - Discussion about the results of the analysis about user groups - Specification of inputs for the user-centered design (synthesis about outputs of group work 1 and 2) 9th week Techniques for Assessing User Satisfaction in the Interior Architecture (analyzing user satisfaction) - On-site observation - Interviews and questionnaires - Focus group 10th week 11th week 12th week 13th week Marketing the product of the interior design process - Pricing - Market environment - Promotion 14th week Presentation of housing design project through user-centered design principles