Designing interaction with a human-centered approach interactive system offered for procrastinators

Abstract

Design, its evolution, discourse and methods are studied in this paper. Design evolved from object-centeredness to human-centeredness in the last few decades. The causes of this change from past object-centered manner to contemporary human-oriented system are briefly summarized. Needs and emotions lead people to make judgments about what they would prefer to keep around themselves. This characteristic of human beings forces them to choose and to involve in the design process. Selecting among variants means designing of the environment. In the study of design, the idea of consumer participation offered new horizons to design. Further, with the new technologies consumer participation became the core of element of the design process.  New fields of design arose. Design became a multi-dimensional and cross-disciplinary study. Within its multi-dimensional perspective, every aspect of human life became a subject for design and design solutions offered for otherwise conceptualized as commonplace or challenging problems. Design, as a reflection of human creativity and wisdom, has begun to be nourished from science and technology, humanities, physiology, ecology, etc. and involved them an essential part of design process. Finally, in this study procrastination, which is an obvious behavioural problem, is taken as a design problem and a possible system design is offered.

Keywords: Design, interaction design, user-engagement, procrastination.