Summary of "Design Moves" by Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl

Summary of Reading

“Design Moves” by Sharon Helmer Poggenpohl

In this reading Sharon Poggenpohl describes how design engages the user and how designers should look at the way people look at design. We should see how the user interacts with the design to better understand the design and the user. 

Poggenpohl talks about a “designers hidden moves” and describes them as being helpful tools for the designer  to follow. Poggenpohl talks about engaging the user to help create a more fitting solution and making abstract ideas tangible, among other ideas.

Poggenpohl also describes four basic kinds of prototypes that every designer should use and how they can work together. They are conceptual, behavioral, procedural and apperance. They can work together to help a designer see what should be changed or enhanced.